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Michael Haykin

Date posted: 1 Sep 2019

Remembering the life of H M Gwatkin and the British Empire

The name of Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916) has long been a familiar one through his standard examination of the Arian heresy, Studies of Arianism (1882), which remains a classical study of this ancient heresy.

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Michael Haykin

Date posted: 1 Jun 2019

During and after World War I, many English-speaking Evangelicals were hoping and praying that one positive result of the horrors of that war would be a great awakening of men and women to their sin and their need for the Saviour.

It was not to be; but there were local revivals, a century on, that we should remember.

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Michael Haykin

Date posted: 1 Feb 2019

‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’.

This famous first line by L.P. Hartley (1895–1972) in his novel The Go-Between (1953) has long been a favourite maxim that orients my teaching of history, for it is notoriously difficult to treat former eras of history with the degree of empathy that they need to make them understandable.