D W Bebbington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D W Bebbington |
| GIVEN NAMES | D W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bebbington |
| SIGNATURE | BEBBINGTON D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reminiscences of the Baptist Historical Society Committee
As given at the Annual General Meeting of the Baptist Historical Society, 20 May 2026I appreciate the chance to offer some remarks about my time on the Baptist Historical Society committee. I joine
The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent, 1720–1800, by Tessa Whitehouse
‘How doth the little crocodile/ Improve his shining tail’ begins one of Lewis Carroll’s light-hearted poems in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The verse is a satire of ‘How doth the little busy bee/ Improve each shining hour’, the opening of ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’ by Isaac Watts. The original appeared in Watts’s Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children, first printed in 1715; the satire was published in 1865. Wat…
Secession and Revival: Louth Free Methodist Church in the 1850s
At Louth in Lincolnshire there emerged in the 1850s a Free Methodist Church. Wesleyans had been hugely successful in the area, but there was internal opposition to Methodist Conference policies. The corn merchant J. B. Sharpley led a secession from Wesleyanism, contributing ideas about the rights of lay leaders. The new denomination gathered support from tradesmen and shopkeepers, and made efforts to recruit waverers. Its members became keen on e…
The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: The Complete Correspondence, 1833–1891, ed. Peter C. Erb
Journal Article The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: The Complete Correspondence, 1833–1891, ed. Peter C. Erb Get access The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: The Complete Correspondence, 1833–1891, ed. Peter C. Erb (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; 4 vols., pp. cxx + 485, 557, 442, 550. £350). D.W. Bebbington D.W. Bebbington 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this auth…
Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century Get access Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century, by Michael Hughes (Peterborough: Epworth, 2008; pp. 366. Pb. £25). D.W. Bebbington D.W. Bebbington University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 508, June 2009, Pages 750–…
Culture and Piety in the Far West: Revival in Penzance, Newlyn, and Mousehole in 1849
A brief but classic account of a Cornish revival is to be found in Salome Hocking’s book Some Old Cornish Folk , published in 1903. Writing semi-fictionally but also semi-ethnographically about a number of years before, the author, herself sprung from Cornish Methodism, described the thronging penitents, the exuberant singing and the ‘thrill of excitement’ that went through the village. Crucially she commented on the circumstances. The revival, s…
The Free Church M.P.s of the 1906 Parliament
Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit By Frank Prochaska
Evangelicalism in the Church of England, c.1790–c.1890: A Miscellany
Evangelicalism in the Church of England, c.1790–c.1890: A Miscellany, ed. Mark Smith and Stephen Taylor (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Church of England Record Soc., 2004; pp. xxi + 339. £50). The rising and ebbing fortunes of the Evangelical section of the Church of England during the nineteenth century are helpfully illuminated by this collection of primary documents. In the first set of texts, illustrating the Blagdon controversy of the year…
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By DAVID HEMPTON (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2005; pp. xiii + 278. £19.95). METHODISM has suffered historiographically in two ways. On the one hand, it has been treated by its friends as an appendage to John Wesley; on the other, it has been treated by its foes (and supremely by E.P. Thompson) as a sinister and oppressive force. Hardly any friend or foe has looked in any depth at what the enormously successful movement…
The mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and politics
Gladstone's ideas are far more accessible for analysis now that, following the publication of his diaries, a record of his reading is available. This book traces the evolution of what the diaries reveal as the statesman's central intellectual preoccupations, theology and classical scholarship, as well as the groundwork of his early Conservatism and his mature Liberalism. In particular it examines the ideological sources of Gladstone's youthful op…
Churches, Chapels and the Parish Communities of Lincolnshire, 1660-1900
1University of Stirling Churches, Chapels and the Parish Communities of Lincolnshire, 1660–1900 R. W.Ambler LincolnHistory of Lincolnshire Committee 2000274£25 Paperback£12.95
Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905
1University of Stirling Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859–1905 JaniceHolmes LondonIrish Academic P. 2000xxii + 281£35
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Gladstone, by Eugenio F. Biagini (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. ix+138. £13.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 989–990, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.989 Published: 01 September 2001
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915, by Charles D. Cashdollar (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 336. $65; pb. $22.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.98…
Methodism and Education, 1849-1902: J. H. Rigg, Romanism, and Wesleyan Schools . John T. Smith
Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism, Eileen Groth Lyon
Journal Article Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism, Eileen Groth Lyon Get access D. W. Bebbington D. W. Bebbington University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.240 Published: 01 February 2001
A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830-1915, Charles D. Cashdollar
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915, by Charles D. Cashdollar (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 336. $65; pb. $22.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 986–987, https://doi.…
Gladstone, Eugenio F. Biagini
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Gladstone, by Eugenio F. Biagini (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. ix+138. £13.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 989–990, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.989 Published: 01 September 2001
Martyrs for the Truth: Fundamentalists in Britain
The systematic study of religious Fundamentalism is now well under way. The first of six promised volumes under the auspices of the Fundamentalism Project of the University of Chicago, making a global examination of such movements in many religions, was published in 1991. Collections of papers evaluating specific aspects of Fundamentalism have been issued, and the theological method of the contemporary British movement has been scrutinized. Its A…
History and Theory
Religion and Society in the Nineteenth Century
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The Oxford Group Movement between the Wars
IN July 1935 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was the setting for an international gathering that attracted thousands of the eminent and the curious, many of them churchmen. ‘Similar ‘house-parties’ had been held every year since 1930. At free periods during the day, recalled Beverley Nichols, an enthusiast on his first visit, ‘the High Street seemed afire with shining faces’; last thing at night attenders could enjoy a ‘lemonade and biscuit’ party in…
The Victorian Clergy: An Ancient Profession under Strain
The persecution of George Jackson: A British Fundamentalist Controversy
The debate surrounding the appointment of George Jackson to a chair at Didsbury College in 1913 has been the chief theological controversy of the twentieth century in British Methodism. It forms an instance of an effort to extinguish alleged theological error, an attempt at persecution within rather than outside the church. It was, as contemporaries complained, a heresy hunt, comparable in some respects to the suppression of Modernism in the Roma…
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By DAVID HEMPTON (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2005; pp. xiii + 278. £19.95). METHODISM has suffered historiographically in two ways. On the one hand, it has been treated by its friends as an appendage to John Wesley; on the other, it has been treated by its foes (and supremely by E.P. Thompson) as a sinister and oppressive force. Hardly any friend or foe has looked in any depth at what the enormously successful movement…
Nonconformity and Electoral Sociology, 1867–1918
Patterns of voting in Britain between the second Reform Act of 1867 and the Franchise Act of 1918 have to be scrutinized afresh in the light of Dr Dunbabin's recent suggestion that very little changed in the period. The electoral profile of the regions, he argues, remained fundamentally constant from well before the period until well afterwards. The basis of the cleavage between conservative and anti-conservative voters was deeply ingrained in re…
Religion and Society in the Nineteenth Century
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The City, the Countryside and the Social Gospel in Late Victorian Nonconformity
The late nineteenth-century city posed problems for English nonconformists. The country was rapidly being urbanised. By 1881 over one third of the people lived in cities with a population of more than one hundred thousand. The most urbanised areas gave rise to the greatest worry of all the churches: large numbers there were failing to attend services. The religious census of 1851 had already shown that the largest towns were the places where ther…
The Oxford Group Movement between the Wars
IN July 1935 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was the setting for an international gathering that attracted thousands of the eminent and the curious, many of them churchmen. ‘Similar ‘house-parties’ had been held every year since 1930. At free periods during the day, recalled Beverley Nichols, an enthusiast on his first visit, ‘the High Street seemed afire with shining faces’; last thing at night attenders could enjoy a ‘lemonade and biscuit’ party in…
Religion and national feeling in nineteenth-century Wales and Scotland
Wales and Scotland were in the nineteenth century, as they have remained in the twentieth, nations within a multinational state. Where boundaries of nation and state did not coincide in nineteenth-century Europe there was commonly a surge of feeling in favour of achieving a remedy. This was equally true of nations like Italy and Germany that were divided internally by political frontiers and of nations like the Serbs and the Rumanians who were lu…
Gladstone and the nonconformists: A religious affinity in politics
Nonconformists had an attitude of veneration for Gladstone. They admired his political skills; they were grateful for the legislative benefits he had brought them like the abolition of compulsory church rates and the opening of higher degrees at the ancient universities; and they were roused by his displays of oratorical power. Yet their respect for Gladstone went far beyond what was due to the able leader of a political party. There was amongst …
Short notices
H. J. Dyos (ed.), Urban History Yearbook 1974, 192; Urban History Yearbook 1975, 188 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £3.00). J. R. Raveosdale, Liable to Floods: Village Landscape on the Edge of the Fens, A.D. 450–1850 (1974), xi+206 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £5.50). Joel Samaha, Law and Order in Historical Perspective. The Case of Elizabethan Essex (1974), xvi+176 (Academic Press, London and New York, £4.70). Charles Carlton…
The City, the Countryside and the Social Gospel in Late Victorian Nonconformity
The late nineteenth-century city posed problems for English nonconformists. The country was rapidly being urbanised. By 1881 over one third of the people lived in cities with a population of more than one hundred thousand. The most urbanised areas gave rise to the greatest worry of all the churches: large numbers there were failing to attend services. The religious census of 1851 had already shown that the largest towns were the places where ther…
Religion and national feeling in nineteenth-century Wales and Scotland
Wales and Scotland were in the nineteenth century, as they have remained in the twentieth, nations within a multinational state. Where boundaries of nation and state did not coincide in nineteenth-century Europe there was commonly a surge of feeling in favour of achieving a remedy. This was equally true of nations like Italy and Germany that were divided internally by political frontiers and of nations like the Serbs and the Rumanians who were lu…
The persecution of George Jackson: A British Fundamentalist Controversy
The debate surrounding the appointment of George Jackson to a chair at Didsbury College in 1913 has been the chief theological controversy of the twentieth century in British Methodism. It forms an instance of an effort to extinguish alleged theological error, an attempt at persecution within rather than outside the church. It was, as contemporaries complained, a heresy hunt, comparable in some respects to the suppression of Modernism in the Roma…
Nonconformity and Electoral Sociology, 1867–1918
Patterns of voting in Britain between the second Reform Act of 1867 and the Franchise Act of 1918 have to be scrutinized afresh in the light of Dr Dunbabin's recent suggestion that very little changed in the period. The electoral profile of the regions, he argues, remained fundamentally constant from well before the period until well afterwards. The basis of the cleavage between conservative and anti-conservative voters was deeply ingrained in re…
The Victorian Clergy: An Ancient Profession under Strain
The Oxford Group Movement between the Wars
IN July 1935 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was the setting for an international gathering that attracted thousands of the eminent and the curious, many of them churchmen. ‘Similar ‘house-parties’ had been held every year since 1930. At free periods during the day, recalled Beverley Nichols, an enthusiast on his first visit, ‘the High Street seemed afire with shining faces’; last thing at night attenders could enjoy a ‘lemonade and biscuit’ party in…
Religion and Society in the Nineteenth Century
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
History and Theory
Martyrs for the Truth: Fundamentalists in Britain
The systematic study of religious Fundamentalism is now well under way. The first of six promised volumes under the auspices of the Fundamentalism Project of the University of Chicago, making a global examination of such movements in many religions, was published in 1991. Collections of papers evaluating specific aspects of Fundamentalism have been issued, and the theological method of the contemporary British movement has been scrutinized. Its A…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Gladstone, by Eugenio F. Biagini (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. ix+138. £13.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 989–990, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.989 Published: 01 September 2001
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915, by Charles D. Cashdollar (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 336. $65; pb. $22.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.98…
Methodism and Education, 1849-1902: J. H. Rigg, Romanism, and Wesleyan Schools . John T. Smith
Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism, Eileen Groth Lyon
Journal Article Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism, Eileen Groth Lyon Get access D. W. Bebbington D. W. Bebbington University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.240 Published: 01 February 2001
A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830-1915, Charles D. Cashdollar
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915, by Charles D. Cashdollar (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 336. $65; pb. $22.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 986–987, https://doi.…
Gladstone, Eugenio F. Biagini
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Gladstone, by Eugenio F. Biagini (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. ix+138. £13.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 989–990, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.989 Published: 01 September 2001
Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905
1University of Stirling Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859–1905 JaniceHolmes LondonIrish Academic P. 2000xxii + 281£35
Churches, Chapels and the Parish Communities of Lincolnshire, 1660-1900
1University of Stirling Churches, Chapels and the Parish Communities of Lincolnshire, 1660–1900 R. W.Ambler LincolnHistory of Lincolnshire Committee 2000274£25 Paperback£12.95
The mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and politics
Gladstone's ideas are far more accessible for analysis now that, following the publication of his diaries, a record of his reading is available. This book traces the evolution of what the diaries reveal as the statesman's central intellectual preoccupations, theology and classical scholarship, as well as the groundwork of his early Conservatism and his mature Liberalism. In particular it examines the ideological sources of Gladstone's youthful op…
Evangelicalism in the Church of England, c.1790–c.1890: A Miscellany
Evangelicalism in the Church of England, c.1790–c.1890: A Miscellany, ed. Mark Smith and Stephen Taylor (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Church of England Record Soc., 2004; pp. xxi + 339. £50). The rising and ebbing fortunes of the Evangelical section of the Church of England during the nineteenth century are helpfully illuminated by this collection of primary documents. In the first set of texts, illustrating the Blagdon controversy of the year…
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By DAVID HEMPTON (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2005; pp. xiii + 278. £19.95). METHODISM has suffered historiographically in two ways. On the one hand, it has been treated by its friends as an appendage to John Wesley; on the other, it has been treated by its foes (and supremely by E.P. Thompson) as a sinister and oppressive force. Hardly any friend or foe has looked in any depth at what the enormously successful movement…
Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit By Frank Prochaska
Culture and Piety in the Far West: Revival in Penzance, Newlyn, and Mousehole in 1849
A brief but classic account of a Cornish revival is to be found in Salome Hocking’s book Some Old Cornish Folk , published in 1903. Writing semi-fictionally but also semi-ethnographically about a number of years before, the author, herself sprung from Cornish Methodism, described the thronging penitents, the exuberant singing and the ‘thrill of excitement’ that went through the village. Crucially she commented on the circumstances. The revival, s…
The Free Church M.P.s of the 1906 Parliament
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