ResearchBuzz: FirehoseBBC: Writer’s poems helped boost the abolition campaign. “Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a ‘massive bit of the jigsaw’ in the abolition campaign history, experts say. Novelist Hannah More, born in Bristol in 1745, also helped open some of the UK’s first schools for working class people.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/19/bbc-writers-poems-helped-boost-the-abolition-campaign/
Helen PughToday (7th Sept) marks 191 years since the death of Hannah More.
Playwright. Abolitionist. Educational philanthropist.
She died in Clifton but lived for many years in Wrington and set up schools in many Mendip villages.
For more on Hannah and her sister Patty, see Unsung Women in Somerset.
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Deborah Makarios@WordyAnchorite I remember being surprised that the first Sunday Schools (for children who worked the other six days of the week) taught them to read and do basic maths, but not to write.
Largely, I think, because being literate and numerate are the key skills for not being cheated by your employer.
Needless to say, Sunday Schools were not popular with the employing class. On at least one occasion Hannah More and her sister had to leave town in a hurry to avoid violence.
#education #history #HannahMore #SundaySchool
Largely, I think, because being literate and numerate are the key skills for not being cheated by your employer.
Needless to say, Sunday Schools were not popular with the employing class. On at least one occasion Hannah More and her sister had to leave town in a hurry to avoid violence.
#education #history #HannahMore #SundaySchool
Quick Quotes“Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
― Hannah More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_More
