Sarah Broun
I was born in Gloucestershire into quite a religious family, a mix of Catholic, Church of England and Methodist influences. …
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Karl Beech
My father was a steelworker and my mother worked in an electronics factory. I was born in Newport and raised …
Joan Birch
Discovering the Bahá’í Faith in Canada in the mid sixties was the major turning point in my life. I had …
Katherine Gray
I was born in Birmingham. My mother belonged to the Church of England, but she always said that the way …
Jane Helbo
I was born Jane Sadler in 1954 in Hammersmith, London into a Church of England churchgoing family. My parents were …
Philip Croft
Background and upbringing I was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 7th May 1946. My father was a dental technician and he met …
Marian Mihaeloff (1926-2016)
During the late 1940s I was enrolled at Leeds University but my parents were ill so I left to look …
Mavis Bodenham (1940 – 2021)
I was born and brought up in Abersychan, south Wales, where I lived with my parents and younger brother. Both …
Sophie Hurst
Becoming a Bahá’í is not just about the moment you say; “I am a Bahá’í”. In my case it stemmed …
Lionel and June (1932 – 2022) Glennie
Lionel and June Glennie were both born in Coventry, a city savagely blitzed during the Second World War. Lionel was …
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