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  • The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

    The Journey to the Mayflower by Tomkins, Stephen;

    God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
    • Date of Publication 23 January 2020

    • ISBN 9781473649101
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 240x164x38 mm
    • Weight 598 g
    • Language English
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    'Wonderfully learned, wonderfully written, a microscopic examination of the acorn from which a truly mighty oak would spring. I learnt a huge amount.' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

    2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower - the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It's a foundational event in American history, but it began as an English story, which pioneered the idea of religious freedom.

    The illegal underground movement of Protestant separatists from Elizabeth I's Church of England is a story of subterfuge and danger, arrests and interrogations, prison and executions. It starts with Queen Mary's attempts to burn Protestantism out of England, which created a Protestant underground. Later, when Elizabeth's Protestant reformation didn't go far enough, radicals recreated that underground, meeting illegally throughout England, facing prison and death for their crimes. They went into exile in the Netherlands, where they lived in poverty - and finally the New World.

    Stephen Tomkins tells this fascinating story - one that is rarely told as an important piece of English, as well as American, history - that is full of contemporary relevance: religious violence, the threat to national security, freedom of religion and tolerance of dangerous opinions.

    This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the untold story of how the Mayflower came to be launched.

    'A rattling good read' - The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu

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