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God and the Good: Thinking Religion and Ethics

Join historian Linda Kirk and explore 'The French Revolution and Its Attack on Religion' as we continue our talk series with The University of Sheffield. 

By the late eighteenth century, the French had taken some tentative steps towards religious toleration. As the Revolution broke out, and reformers proposed changes to anything and everything, including the Church, it was presumed that belief and fidelity would remain plaited into the fabric of French life. But things went further and faster than any reformers expected...

The 1554 Coffee Shop will be open before the talk, selling drinks, deli savouries and homemade sweets.