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George Dawson and the Civic Gospel: Transforming Birmingham
By Andrew Reekes
Wednesday 16th April, 7.15 to 8.45
At the Community Centre, Heathfield Road, B147DB
George Dawson, an inspirational minister and lecturer, preached a great mission cause to the wealthy and successful in Birmingham; that they had a responsibility to improve, and transform, the lives of their fellow citizens. Many business leaders heeded him and followed, devoting their lives and their wealth to educate, to cultivate and to ameliorate the lives of Birmingham people. The civic gospel was Birmingham’s unique contribution to Britain’s Nineteenth Century History, and so marked was the change these civic gospellers wrought that Birmingham became known as ’the best governed city in the world.’
Andrew Reekes read History at Oxford and then spent a lifetime in senior leadership in Education after which he read a research degree at the University of Birmingham. That research prompted a number of books about Birmingham: Speeches - Oratory in Birmingham; Two Titans, One City: Joseph Chamberlain and George Cadbury; The Birmingham Political Machine; More than Munich - Neville Chamberlain; Austen Chamberlain and the Burden of Expectation: George Dawson and the Civic Gospel as well as the soon to be published Reporting Birmingham - A city seen though its Press.
Members are free. Visitors pay £3.00. Light refreshments are available for a small charge.
By Andrew Reekes
Wednesday 16th April, 7.15 to 8.45
At the Community Centre, Heathfield Road, B147DB
George Dawson, an inspirational minister and lecturer, preached a great mission cause to the wealthy and successful in Birmingham; that they had a responsibility to improve, and transform, the lives of their fellow citizens. Many business leaders heeded him and followed, devoting their lives and their wealth to educate, to cultivate and to ameliorate the lives of Birmingham people. The civic gospel was Birmingham’s unique contribution to Britain’s Nineteenth Century History, and so marked was the change these civic gospellers wrought that Birmingham became known as ’the best governed city in the world.’
Andrew Reekes read History at Oxford and then spent a lifetime in senior leadership in Education after which he read a research degree at the University of Birmingham. That research prompted a number of books about Birmingham: Speeches - Oratory in Birmingham; Two Titans, One City: Joseph Chamberlain and George Cadbury; The Birmingham Political Machine; More than Munich - Neville Chamberlain; Austen Chamberlain and the Burden of Expectation: George Dawson and the Civic Gospel as well as the soon to be published Reporting Birmingham - A city seen though its Press.
Members are free. Visitors pay £3.00. Light refreshments are available for a small charge.