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Advent: Hunger and Hope

Who would think that it’s just a mere twenty years since the first foodbank opened in Salisbury? Who could have thought that what was started in Salisbury would go on to become a service found in every town across the land? Who imagined back then that foodbanks would be the emergency service that gets millionsContinue reading “Advent: Hunger and Hope”

Foxwell-Buxton, anti-slavery campaigner and MP of Weymouth

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” Today the Church of England remembers the anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce, Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson. Here in the Diocese of Salisbury we might like to add Thomas Foxwell-Buxton, MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis between 1818 and 1837.In 1823 Foxwell-Buxton established the Society forContinue reading “Foxwell-Buxton, anti-slavery campaigner and MP of Weymouth”