This Month’s Talk
“Fired with Love Unfeigned”: Discovering the Life and Labours of the Reverend Henry Venn, Vicar of St Peter’s Parish Church, Huddersfield 1759-1771 by Lewis Allen.
Venn was a contemporary of Methodist founders John Wesley and George Whitefield, both of whom he worked with, and became one of the best-known figures of the eighteenth century Evangelical Revival. He was a hugely popular parish minister in Huddersfield (from 1759 – 1771) and elsewhere. When he resigned due to chronic ill-health crowds implored him not to leave, and he was sorely missed. His ministry left a lasting legacy in the religious landscape of Huddersfield and its surrounds, nationally and even internationally.
Lewis Allen moved to Huddersfield from London, with his family, to establish what is now Hope Church Huddersfield in 2010, where he is the Senior Pastor.
His talk explores who Venn was, how he came to love the people of Huddersfield and minister to their needs, and how his ministry gives valuable insights into his age – and ours.
Please note that the English subtitles for this talk were generated automatically by YouTube and may contain the occasional spelling or conversion error.
2021/22 Season
We hoped to be returning to actual meetings for our talks in January 2022, but due to the continuing uncertainty around COVID-19 our January talk has been cancelled. A talk to replace this is being planned for June 2022. Talks will resume in February either in person or online. Please continue to check the website for the latest information about the venue, or type, of each talk. Many thanks for your patience.
- 13 Sep 2021 — A ‘great’ amongst Victorian architects? Huddersfield’s W. H. Crossland — Sheila Binns
held jointly with Huddersfield Civic Society, pre-booking is required - 27 Sep 2021 — Servants of Edgerton: Discovering the women who served the Huddersfield elite — Beverley Norris
- 25 Oct 2021 — The History of the Colne Valley Landscape — Rob Vincent
- 29 Nov 2021 — “Fired with Love Unfeigned”: Discovering the Life and Labours of the Reverend Henry Venn, Vicar of St Peter’s Parish Church, Huddersfield 1759-1771 — Lewis Allen
- 28 Feb 2022 — To be confirmed
- 28 Mar 2022 — Financing Huddersfield’s industrialisation: Learning from the banking crash of 1826 — Stephen Caunce
- 25 Apr 2022 — “Rise Now from Your Slumber”: Peterloo, Song and Protest (Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture) — Alison Morgan
- 30 May 2022 — Celebrating 100 Years of the Tolson Memorial Museum, the museum of Huddersfield — Ann Denham
Servants of Edgerton: Discovering the women who served the Huddersfield elite by Beverley Norris.
The History of the Colne Valley Landscape by Rob Vincent.
A long-term resident of the Valley, Rob will unpick its various elements – its field pattern and walls, quarries, the effects of its economy on the settlement patterns, the legacy of Non-Conformism on the hillsides, its roads, canal, railway and tracks, and its reservoirs. But he will stress that it’s the combination of all those things that makes the landscape.
Rob’s book — Colne Valley: A History of a Pennine Landscape — is now available to purchase.
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