No matter where you are in the world please join us via Zoom on Saturday 13th January 2024 at 11am GMT for our latest #engleseabrook Heritage Talk.

In Root & Branch: How 5 Shillings, Faith and Belief Inspired the Beginning of the Probation Service Today Englesea Brook’s Heritage Officer, Amy Wilkinson, will talk about the Primitive Methodist roots of today’s Probation Service. Did you know that the forerunner of the modern Probation Service was set up in the police courts of Victorian London with a donation of just five shillings? Or how the concerns of Christian churches (including the Primitive Methodists) and their temperance societies for the men (and women and children) facing trial and imprisonment for offences often associated with alcohol lead to the legislation resulting in the foundation of the Probation Service in 1907? Or how the ideas and principles behind the work of the Probation Service would go on to be rolled out across the world?

Amy Wilkinson is Englesea Brook’s Heritage Officer. She studied Classical Literature and History at the University of Leeds before going on to complete her MA Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She now cares for Englesea Brook’s collection. Throughout 2023 she conducted the research for the Root & Branch exhibition that was curated by Englesea Brook in partnership with the Probation Service. This event is free. Everyone is welcome. The Zoom details are: https://zoom.us/j/93085507866?pwd=eWNaeWZxYTV1TE50K296bXAxYjBtQT09

Meeting ID: 930 8550 7866

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