Newington Green Unitarian Church is one of England's oldest Unitarian churches, located on Newington Green, north London. The site has maintained strong ties to progressive political and religious cau
Unitarian chapel newington green
St Mary's Old Church (left) and New Church (right)
The China Inland Mission on Newington Green
Richard Price
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress. He has been seen as one of the earliest
Newington Green Unitarian Church
…nature of the church created. In the mid-nineteenth century it was described by a local historian as a Socinian Independent meeting house.) The author Daniel Defoe, who attended school at Newington Green, is believed to have attended the church. Isaac Watts, the "Father of English Hymnody", theologian, logician…
Portrait of Defoe in the style of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862)
Title page from Daniel Defoe's: The History of the Union of Great Britain dated 1709 and printed in Edinburgh by the Heirs of Anderson
Glasgow Bridge as Defoe might have seen it in the 18th century