Free Thinking: Religion and Ordinary Lives

From the experiences of Quaker wives in the 17th century to the samplers and bibles in the homes of workers in the Industrial Revolution, Dr Naomi Pullin from the University of Warwick and Professor Hannah Barker of the University of Manchester join historian and New Generation Thinker Tom Charlton to compare notes on the way their research marks a shift in the way religious beliefs of past times are being studied. Naomi Pullin is the author of Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750. Hannah Barker is Director of the John Rylands Research Institute and Historical Advisor for the National Trust at Quarry Bank Mill and has written on family, gender and business in the Industrial Revolution