Anglicanism, methodism and ecumenism: a history of the Queen's and Handsworth Colleges - 122

For almost 200 years, the city of Birmingham has been a key location for the training of clergy.

From 1828 Anglican clergy studied at the Queen's College and in 1881 the Methodist Church developed their own training facility at Handsworth College.

In this book, Andrew Chandler tells the tale of these two colleges.

This is a history not simply of the creation and evolution of these two religious institutions, but a study full of significance for the wider history of Christianity in British society across the 19th and 20th centuries.

The foundation of both colleges occurred in a confident age of civic progress and reform and their subsequent histories reveal much that was at work in the experience of the British churches at large.