Medal
1850-1900 / Coin/Medal / Commemorative / Metal / Metalwork / Sunday School
Metal, fabric
1880
This medal on a silk ribbon commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of Sunday Schools by Robert Raikes in 1780.
Raikes (1736 - 1811) was was a pioneer of the Sunday School movement, which started with a school for boys in the slums. Raikes saw schooling as the best early intervention in a possible life of crime, a preventive measure which was better than a cure. Sunday schooling was chosen as this was usually the only day boys were not working (usually in factories), and teaching materials were based on the Bible. Although not a Methodist, Raikes' efforts and achievements were discussed in Wesley's Methodist or 'Arminian' Magazine. Methodism organised its own Sunday Schools, open to boys and girls, from the early 19th century.
The medal would have been distributed among children attending Sunday School; see also other Sunday School commemorative medals in the Online Collection.
1880
This medal on a silk ribbon commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of Sunday Schools by Robert Raikes in 1780.
Raikes (1736 - 1811) was was a pioneer of the Sunday School movement, which started with a school for boys in the slums. Raikes saw schooling as the best early intervention in a possible life of crime, a preventive measure which was better than a cure. Sunday schooling was chosen as this was usually the only day boys were not working (usually in factories), and teaching materials were based on the Bible. Although not a Methodist, Raikes' efforts and achievements were discussed in Wesley's Methodist or 'Arminian' Magazine. Methodism organised its own Sunday Schools, open to boys and girls, from the early 19th century.
The medal would have been distributed among children attending Sunday School; see also other Sunday School commemorative medals in the Online Collection.
