Talk:Sunday Lecture Society

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Did you know... that after the Lord's Day Observance Society forced the National Sunday League to stop their Sunday lectures, they eventually regrouped to form the Sunday Lecture Society?

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check here - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 22:48, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Leeds society was prosecuted! See here - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 22:49, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
some interesting sources here in note 111 - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 23:06, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
another snippet here. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 23:08, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The Freethinker - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 23:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Science and Spirituality
Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics p86
Book on Darwin, p411
Edward Frankland: Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England p326
History of Wisconsin, p450
The Solicitors' Journal
Dickens and Charity p91 - this actually explains the background!

I was looking at the founder Sir William Domville who is very likely IMO Captain Sir William Domville of the Royal Navy ref here. Could this be right? This William Domville died a Rear Admiral Victuallers (talk) 12:56, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Victuallers Nice find! That must be him, he’s the only Sir William that lived in this timeframe! I wonder if it might be worthwhile creating an article about him? I think a bit of research would find he was important enough for an article. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 19:24, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I should note it was Alansplodge who found the following:

"This Society was formed in 1869 by William Henry Domville, a London solicitor in London. Its objective was to present lectures on the arts, history, literature and science on Sunday, a day when wholesome recreation was scarce... the Society's usual venue." source

Alan, do you have any insights on this one? - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 19:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Alansplodge and Victuallers: I screwed up, turns out the one I’m referring to should have been W. H. Domville, who was second son of St. William Domville, 2nd baronet. I believe this was a seperate person. Tremendously sorry! I have amended the article. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 20:01, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks Aussie Article Writer. I was just writing a reply for you...

I think it's unlikely that our Domville is the same as the admiral. I did a quite thorough Google search and found that he practiced at Lincoln's Inn (somewhat confused by a much earlier William Domville), perhaps was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, was vice-president of the Sunday Society (a pressure group for the opening of museums on Sunday) and wrote or promoted a tract proposing changes to church liturgy to reflect scientific advances. All this from ephemeral snippets which I decided would not make a decent article. I'm afraid I didn't keep any of the links, but none of them were very concrete. Alansplodge (talk) 20:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by The C of E (talk) 06:44, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that after the Sunday Lecture Society was prosecuted due to pressure from the Lord's Day Observance Society, the Sunday Society formed a National Association of Sunday Societies to defend themselves? - Source: Wigley, John (1980). The rise and fall of the Victorian Sunday. Manchester University Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780719007941.
- ALT1:... that after the Lord's Day Observance Society forced the National Sunday League to stop their Sunday lectures, they eventually regrouped to form the Sunday Lecture Society? Pope, Norris (1979). Dickens and Charity. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 91. ISBN 1349034363. OCLC 1033650826

Reviewed: Big Time Wrestling (Boston)

Created by Aussie Article Writer (talk). Self-nominated at 11:38, 6 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Mandarax is this better? - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 09:10, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Thanks for trimming the hooks, which are now 199 and 171 characters. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 17:24, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Article is long enough, was new enough at time of creation, and looks well sourced. I'm unable to get access to the full versions of the sources so I'm assuming good faith. Hooks are reasonably interesting but ALT0 is a bit hard to follow so I'm approving ALT1. qpq has been done and Earwig is not picking up any copyvio. BuySomeApples (talk)