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The Use and Custody of Local Records
Baines, A.H.J.
Baines, A.H.J.
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"As britons, as Free Churchmen and as historians we ought to be unceasingly grateful that our nation has for so long been spared the miseries of foreign conquest and domestic convulsions. Each of us lives in a town or village with a history which ought to be known, and our freedom from invasion and revolution has greatly assisted the preservation of the local records which enable that history to be written. In almost all our towns and most of our villages the Protestant Dissenters have made a significant and distinctive contribution to the life of the community for the past three centuries; but until the third of these centuries was well advanced, the local historian was unlikely to record that contribution. He was usually an Anglican, often a cleric; his education, his social class and his attachment to a Church which had always been closely associated with the civil power, and which could claim a continuous history for thirteen centuries, did not encourage him to seek out and study the records of rival bodies which included 'not many mighty, not many noble.' Compared with the parish church, the village Bethel seemed a thing of yesterday, which called for no mention today since it might be gone by tomorrow. "
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1969
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