Researching Your Church’s History

Have you ever wanted to write (or re-write) a history of your local church, but never been sure how best to get started? Then this workshop will introduce to the basic skills you need, and where you might start looking for the information that will help you tell your church’s story.

Local church histories can be fascinating things, are a great contact point with visitors, and can help the regular congregation gain a fresh appreciation of their identity. But the process of researching and writing the history may also help you make all sorts of connections with your community as you discover the way the life of the church and community have intertwined over the centuries. Church history can be a tool for mission in the present as well.

The workshop will be led by the Rev’d Dr Phil Bradford, a parish priest in Worcester. Phil gained his PhD in medieval history, specialising in the fourteenth-century parliament, at the University of York, where he is now an Honorary Visiting Fellow. His first popular history book The Worst Medieval Monarchs is published on 30 September 2023 by Pen & Sword History. He has recently been researching the history of his own parish.

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