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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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8 March 1698
The
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.
1723
Dr
Thomas Bray
, who had founded the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
, used a bequest from a Dutch secretary to
William III
to found
Dr Bray's Associates
, an organization supporting parochial libraries...