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Introduction
Introduction The Covid 19 pandemic intersected with the beginnings of a project on Pastoral Care in the early modern British Atlantic, which draws on and analyses some of the material in USPG’s extensive archival holdings. The project explores models of pastoral care developed in the early origins of SPG (1701 – 1720), as Anglican missionaries sought to minister to congregations in the American colonies. This collaboration with Dr Alison Searle, based in the School of English at the University of Leeds, explores aspects of pastoral care provision across time. An online exhibition makes a very small number of key manuscripts and printed documents from the first twenty years of the Society’s history accessible and approaches this archival material through a focus on pastoral care and transatlantic communication via the technology of the letter.
