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The Society was founded in 1915 and exists to encourage and support the study of all aspects of Unitarian history, including that of constituent and related traditions such as English Presbyterianism, the General Baptists, Universalist churches, the Methodist Unitarian movement, the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and other bodies and groups.

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Annual Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the Society for 2022 took place at 16.25 on Tuesday 19 April at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel during the meetings of the General Assembly. This was followed by a talk by Graham and Judy Hague entitled ‘The Unitarian Heritage – a Perspective after Thirty-Five Years’.

The Annual General Meeting of the Society for 2019 took place at 14.55 on Wednesday 17 April at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel during the meetings of the General Assembly. This was followed by a lecture by Dr Rachel Eckersley on ‘Benefactions in the form of books: the development of the Northern Dissenting Academies and their libraries during the 18th and 19th centuries’.

A video of the lecture can be viewed online here :  https://youtu.be/H3KbNbzag-0

The Annual General Meeting of the Society for 2018 took place at 3.45 pm on Thursday, 5th April at the De Vere Staverton Park Estate, Daventry, Northamptonshire following which the Rev Dr David Steers gave an illustrated lecture on ‘Commemorating 1568: The 450th Anniversary of the Edict of Torda’.

A video of the lecture can be viewed online here :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlmlsm6uQU

Blog Posts

UHS Blog
29 February 2024

Rev John Johns (1801-1847) first missioner to the poor in Liverpool

Rev John Johns (1801-1847). A short video telling the story of the first minister to the poor in Liverpool including the role played by Rev John Hamilton Thom in the…
UHS Blog
24 October 2023

All Sermons of Vancouver Unitarian Minister Rev. Phillip Hewett are now online

The Unitarian Church of Vancouver is happy to announce its online publication this week of the complete sermons of the Reverend Dr. Phillip Hewett, one of the most admired and…
UHS Blog
4 July 2023

Reckoning With Marginalised Communities in International UU Histories

Derek McAuley, President of the Unitarian Historical Society, contributed to the Unitarian Universalist Studies Network Convocation on “Widening the Circle of UU Studies” held in Chicago, USA and online, 23…
Rev Thomas Dix Hincks Memorial Window, First Church, BelfastUHS Blog
8 June 2023

The family of the Rev Thomas Dix Hincks, LLD, MRIA (1767-1857)

One of the features of the Unitarian ministry, across the centuries, was the tendency for dynasties of ministerial families to develop. Successions of ministers emerged, often intermarried across the generations…