Touching History
Member Exclusive Lectures • 1h 12m
Join us as we hear all about iconic church stories. Writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford, inveterate “church crawler” and author of ‘If These Stones Could Talk: A History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland’, published in paperback last year by Hodder, will share some favourite churches from his research and travels, and argue that our historic churches need a new stream of funding so their treasures remain available, accessible and open for the generations that follow us. It is a case he made powerfully in an opinion piece in the Observer newspaper on Easter Sunday.
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