W.T. Stead’s Books for the Bairns

The title of this series immediately conjures up a Scottish image but in fact Books for the Bairns were published in England by an Englishman. W. T. Stead, philanthropist, pacifist,…

The Preacher’s Son who saved Prostitutes

William Thomas Stead was the son of a Northumberland Congregational minister. His father taught him Latin before he taught him English. Even before the boy was aged five, he was…