Readers and Writers Festival Timothy Walker

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Clapham Library

The First Clapham Saints explains why they chose Clapham and gives an absorbing picture of the village community, the relationships within it, and the part its inhabitants played in the major events of the time.

In the early seventeenth century, Clapham was just another small village outside London, but from 1630 it became home to a group of radical Puritan merchants. Their influence was far reaching. After the Restoration, Clapham continued as a centre for nonconformist merchants, so much so that it was described as a ‘Whig Warren’.

The First Clapham Saints explains why they chose Clapham and gives an absorbing picture of the village community, the relationships within it, and the part its inhabitants played in the major events of the time.