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John Penry

John Penry an Elizabethan Puritan martyr has a strong association with the village of Llangammarch where I used to live. In 2014 we had a service celebrating him and these are the writings that emerged from it

Nonconformity in Hackney

-- a history and a reflection. Hackney is a key site for the growth of religious nonconformity in the 17th and 18th century. This paper seeks to illustrate how this has affected contemporary Hackney

The Dissenting Academies of Hackney

-- a history. Growing from the previous article this looks at the interesting history of Nonconformity's 'Alternative Universities' who provided education for nonconformists who weren't allowed to go to Oxford and Cambridge