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There are still a few places left for the first of our conferences at Dr Williams's Library on Saturday 9 November 2013. You can download the complete programme here.Speakers are: Michael Davies, Crawford Gribben, Ann Hughes, N. H. Keeble, Kathleen Lynch, Chad van Dixhoorn, and Elliot Vernon.[caption id="attachment_114" align="alignleft" width="300"] © Trustees of Dr Williams's Library[/caption]These three one-day conferences, a partnership between the Aix-Marseille Research Centre on the English-Speaking World and Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies will take place in early November, in 2013, 2014, and 2015. They  will explore the religious and social experiences of Independent and Baptist churches and their members during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the focus will remain primarily on what could be termed the ‘gathered churches’, the conferences will also offer opportunities to explore other aspects of the experience of dissent: from, for example, the perspective of Presbyterians and Quakers. This year is on "Ministers and their congregations", while we'll look at the "Variety of dissenting expression" next year with speakers on Church records, diaries, poetry, letters and entring books.To register, send an e-mail to Anne Page with your title, affiliation, postal address and dietary requirements:  anne.page@univ-amu.fr. Registration is free and a buffet lunch will be served at the Library.