Gunpowder Joe: Priestley’s Religious Radicalism
1730 - 1880 (c.)
Image: Cartoon: The Friends of the People, showing Joseph Priestley on the left
Image from: Birmingham City Archives, Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins
Text: Gay Hill
Summary
This article was originally presented in a public day school, “Joseph Priestley and Birmingham” organised by the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 28 February 2004. Gay Hill explores Priestley’s involvement in campaigns for religious and political reform in late eighteenth-century England.
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Gunpowder Joe: Priestley’s Religious Radicalism
Introduction
Priestley, Subversion and 1791
Priestley and John Wesley
Priestley and the Church of England
Priestley and the Church of England
Gunpowder Joe
Gunpowder Joe: The Reaction
