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Old 24-05-2010, 21:24   #21
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Re: Antley 1900 "Not missed once"

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Originally Posted by earthdog View Post
Fascinating. I think it went on all over, my family (as opposed to my wife's with her Accy connections) are from South Wales which is also littered with non-conformist chapels from the same sort of time (late 1800s to early 1900s). There was quite a revival in the valleys at that time.
Aye...very true. There was all sorts of radical stuff going on in the 1890/1900's...birth of the Labour Party, Temperance Movement, origins of the Welfare State (NI, Pensions)..and much of it coming from working class religious non-conformism and catholicism - the C of E still being the Tory Party at Prayer. One underlying theme was the notion of working class discipline and respectability, as seen in these medals and this picture.
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