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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Friday, 26 April 2024

F L Alexandre Freytag

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  With thanks to Franco Alexandre Freytag was appointed by CTR as branch manager in Geneva, Switzerland. It did not end well. You will note ...
Friday, 19 April 2024

The Watchtower in French

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  With grateful thanks to Cedric Very first issue, October 1903 1908 1909 1910 1930 World War 2 1947
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Wednesday, 10 April 2024

The Larvent family

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Historian Laurie Larvent supplied the graphics for this short article. They relate to his grandfather Élie Larvent (1882-1954) who is pictur...
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Monday, 1 April 2024

French tracts

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  L’ É TUDIANT DE LA BIBLE for November 1915 (The Bible Students Monthly in French). JOURNAL POUR TOUS for October 29, 1916 (Everybody’s Pap...
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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,...
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