{"id":115692,"date":"2026-04-09T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=115692"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:35:28","slug":"historical-notes-about-england-and-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2026\/04\/historical-notes-about-england-and-hawaii.html","title":{"rendered":"Historical notes about England and Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Birmingham England Temple is currently under construction. A small one, it will be the third temple in the British Isles, but others have been announced. (LDS Media Library fair use)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next month, along with Kristine Wardle Frederickson<\/a> of the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s board of directors and the well-known English Latter-day Saint tour guide Peter Fagg<\/a>, my wife and I will be accompanying an Interpreter Foundation study tour in England: \u00a0Church History and Great Britain with the Interpreter Foundation 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pleased, in that light and just generally, to be able to note that Peter\u2019s Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Book 1: LDS Preston<\/em> <\/a>is now available as a Kindle book on Amazon:<\/p>\n

The City of Preston was incorporated in 1179 and remained a quiet market town until the industrial revolution. In the late 1700\u2019s the rich were making millions from cotton whilst the poor encountered shocking working conditions and insanitary accommodations. They were being exploited for gain.
\nInto this turmoil of commerce and industry arrived seven missionaries from Ohio, spokesmen for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. They offered solace and peace to the hearts of the hopeless and the downtrodden. They baptised thousands and saved many from a life of miserable servitude.
\nLater thousands of converts from the UK and elsewhere would travel with the Church to the USA and settle in the young America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\u00a0<\/em>will, I think, be of great interest not only for those who will be joining us on our tour of England but for other Latter-day Saints who have visited the United Kingdom or who plan to visit it in the future, for those who served missions there or who have British ancestry or who simply have an interest in Latter-day Saint history, the beginnings of our international missionary work, the story of Brigham Young and others among the early apostles of this dispensation, and so forth.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, all of the currently-released installments of the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s series Becoming Brigham<\/em> (along with some other supporting materials) are accessible at no charge at becomingbrigham.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also connected, in a way, with May\u2019s tour: \u00a0I will, if plans hold, be teaching at BYU\u2019s Education Week this coming August<\/a>, doing so for the first time in quite a number of years. \u00a0(My excuse for not having participated in Education Week for a while? \u00a0Well, it\u2019s, umm, not very flattering to me: \u00a0Sometimes, I\u2019ve had scheduling conflicts for August. \u00a0Mostly, though, it\u2019s because I\u2019ve simply forgotten to propose<\/em> anything: \u00a0The deadline for proposals comes surprisingly early and, year after year after year, I\u2019ve missed it because I just wasn\u2019t thinking<\/em> about Education Week. \u00a0And then, when I did think about it, the deadline was already past. \u00a0This year, though, I got my act together and proposed the following series of lectures, which was accepted:<\/p>\n

Series Title: \u201cAfter and Before the Apostles: Highlights from British Christian History between Dispensations\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Class 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Christianity comes to the British Isles<\/p>\n