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From putting down permanent roots in the 1870s until the outbreak of the Second World War, Wesleyan Methodists made a notable contribution to the r

Prior to the emergence of the Welfare State, churches made a valuable and valued contribution to social welfare provision either alone or collabora

The title of this item is taken from the headline of reports which appeared in the 21 March and 4 April 1903 editions of the Hants and Berks Ga

In 2019 St Thomas’ Care Home in Darlington Road, Basingstoke was a dementia care home.

Basingstoke made headlines in the national and provincial press in 1907 when the vicar of Basingstoke, Revd Boustead, sent an intemperate letter to

There were no Baptist causes in Basingstoke recorded in the religious census of 1851.

Until the Methodist Re-Union in 1932, the Primitive Methodists remained a distinctive feature of Basingstoke’s ecclesiastical landscape.

In seeking to find an effective means of bridging the gap between their Sunday schools and full church membership, from the 1890s onwards many of B

From its opening in February 1905 until its transfer to the Methodists in 1928, the Working Men’s Mission Hall in George Street, Basingstoke, serve

For this period 23 probate documents have been selected to reflect the range of occupations in the town and show the move to brewing following the

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