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The Peart-Binns Christian Socialist Archive

This archive contains biographical material relating to members of the Christian Socialist movement, especially Maurice Reckitt and Tom Heron. The material was collected by Yorkshire author John S. Peart-Binns.

Background

Maurice Reckitt (1888-1980) was a writer and Christian sociologist. A founder of the National Guilds League, he contributed to A.R. Orage's "New Age", wrote for and edited the "New English Weekly" and for 20 years edited "Christendom", a quarterly journal of Christian sociology. He was involved with many organisations including the Christendom Association, the League of the Kingdom of God and the Church Union Summer School of Sociology. Reckitt's most important book, "Faith and society", was published in 1934.

Tom Heron (1890-1983) was a businessman, managing director of Crysede Silks of St Ives and founder of Cresta Silks of Welwyn Garden City. He was also a political theorist and poet and the father of the artist Patrick Heron.

Other members of the movement covered by this collection include Philip Mairet, Henry H. Slesser, William Travers Symons, Ruth Kenyon, Lewis Mumford, Patrick McLaughlin, V.A. Demant and Donald MacKinnon.

The Archive

The Archive includes correspondence, publications, and obituaries. Further information is available as a collection-level entry on the Library catalogue. For more information, please contact the Special Collections staff. Please note that the Archive is not yet fully catalogued so access is limited.

Links

• The Mitrinovic Library holds books by A.R. Orage, Philip Mairet and others of the New Age group, with a run of the "New Age" from 1907 to 1931.
• John S. Peart-Binns Archive held by Hull History Centre [U DPB]. Research papers on Maurice Reckitt and Percy Widdrington, including correspondence, speeches and reports, typescripts and published materials.
• Reckitt Papers held by Special Collections at the University of Sussex [SxMs44]. Correspondence and press-cuttings of Maurice Reckitt. The papers cover the period 1925-1970, and concern Christian Socialism, religion in politics and social questions. There is an accompanying collection of books and pamphlets.

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