History and stuff

The history of the 19th century Bible Student movement, with occasional more recent developments among those who stayed with the Watch Tower Society. A place for historians who love this subject. Not a place for polemics or for debating beliefs; simply history written as neutrally as possible. Enjoy! Some reprinted pieces first appeared on: truthhistory.blogspot.com

History and stuff

The history of the 19th century Bible Student movement, with occasional more recent developments among those who stayed with the Watch Tower Society. A place for historians who love this subject. Not a place for polemics or for debating beliefs; simply history written as neutrally as possible. Enjoy! Some reprinted pieces first appeared on: truthhistory.blogspot.com

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Sunday, 24 March 2024

An Italian Postcard

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  Material and translation from Franco From the 1982 Yearbook pages 129-130 “Now let us go back to the end of World War 1. Shortly after...
Friday, 15 March 2024

Conventioneers

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  At its start, photo journalism was a costly business involving wood engravings to reproduce the layers of a photograph for printing.   But...
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Saturday, 24 February 2024

S. P. Davey

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We are grateful to Liam C. for providing the scans below from The Bijou magazine, the Junior Class magazine of the Ohio Weslyan University ...
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Wednesday, 31 January 2024

THE ROSS LIBEL TRIAL - PREAMBLE

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In the summer of 2023 I completed and published a small book entitled THE ROSS LIBEL TRIAL. It was a research project dating back 35 years, ...

THE ROSS LIBEL TRIAL - TITLE AND INTRODUCTION

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  THE ROSS LIBEL TRIAL The history of a 1913 legal case remembered (badly) down through the years.   Print edition first published i...

CHAPTER 1 - THE BACKGROUND

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 For the first nearly 40 years of Watch Tower Society history, the organization was inextricably linked to the name Charles Taze Russell (he...

CHAPTER 2 - PICKING THE RIGHT PLATFORM

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Looking back now, it appears that – unknown to either party – the case CTR brought against J J Ross never had any real chance of succeeding,...

CHAPTER 3 - THE LAW AND THE PERJURY CHARGE

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 This chapter will examine exactly why a charge of criminal libel in the case of THE KING vs. JOHN JACOB ROSS was doomed to failure. If the ...
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CHAPTER 4 - THE SIDERSKY EFFECT

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The reason we can now establish a key part of what happened in the courtroom    on March 17, 1913, in the case of THE KING vs. J J ROSS is t...

CHAPTER 5 - THE TRANSCRIPT THAT HAS SURVIVED

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PART 1   Heading: ‘Pastor’ Russell Under Direct Court Examination Subheading: Interesting Court Examination of ‘Pastor’ Russell, His Religio...
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