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The World Evangelical Alliance’s Mayflower celebration in 1920 took place at London’s Queen’s Hall (no longer extant). The World Evangelical Alliance marked the sailing of the Mayflower as “a new epoch in the progress of religious liberty, which was…

Lowestoft’s celebration for the Mayflower anniversary in 1920 was held under the auspices of the Lowestoft Free Church Council. In a highly unusual move, it was a female preacher who gave the service. The Rev. M. Marie Varney came from America and…

Well-attended meetings were held in the afternoon and evening at Clasketgate Wesley Chapel in Lincoln to mark the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage. Upbeat talks were given by the Revs. Walter H. Armstrong, F.J. Harvey, and F. Luke Wiseman,…

Following Mayflower events at the Wesleyan Chapel for the 300th anniversary, a “Mayflower sale of work” was held at the Newland Congregational Church with the aim of raising £500; £273 8s 5d was raised on the opening day alone. The opening of the…

Tercentenary events took many forms, ranging from large-scale public entertainments, like pageants, to small-scale lectures held at chapels and churches. The latter events tended to be aimed at members of non-conformist communions, often under the…

Lincolnshire claimed a special connection to the Mayflower story because a number of the ship’s occupants had come from that part of the country, principal among them being William Bradford, who became the second governor of the Plymouth Colony. Thus…

There were a number of plays and pageants produced during the Mayflower Tercentenary of 1920, some of which, like Rev. Hugh Parry’s pageant, were performed in more than one town. But Exeter had the distinction of putting on an original play by a…

The 88th annual assembly of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1920 occasioned a talk given by Rev. A.E. Garvie, Principal of New College, London (later part of the University of London’s theology faculty). Garvie reflected on the…

Tercentenary celebrations in the town of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, centred around the Baptist and Free Church communities. Sermons were preached at the Baptist Church by a number of local notables. These touched on common themes, like the…