The full title is Sacred History Selected from the Scriptures, with Annotations and Reflections, suited to the Comprehension of young Minds, particularly calculated to facilitate the Study of the Holy Scriptures in Schools and Families...
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About 1765: Catharine Cappeimg: move in unlikely event...
Building item
About 1765
Catharine Cappe
opened one of the earliest recorded Sunday schools, at Catterick in Yorkshire.
Cappe, Catharine. Memoirs of the Life of the late Mrs. Catharine Cappe. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
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1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...
Building item
1769
Hannah Ball
opened an early Methodist
Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Feminist Companion Archive.
July 1780: Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday sc...
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July 1780
Robert Raikes
opened his first Sunday school.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Laqueur, Thomas. Religion and Respectability. Yale University Press, 1976.
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This inaccuracy persists although the Dictionary of National Biography specifically says Raikes's school was not the first.
