P. A. M. Taylor

P.A.M. TAYLOR is Reader in American Studies at the University of Hull, England. He is the author of several books and articles including Expectations Westward: The Mormons and the Emigration of Their British Converts (1965) and The Distant Magnet: European Emigration to the U.S.A. (1971).

The Life of Brigham Young: A Biography Which Will Not Be Written

Articles/Essays – Volume 01, No. 3

On Sunday morning, October 5, 1856, Brigham Young stood before thousands of Mormons in Salt Lake City, to open the semi annual conference of the Church. During the morning he spoke twice. His very first…

Come, Come, Ye Saints | James B. Allen and Thomas G. Alexander, eds., Manchester Mormons: The Journal of William Clayton, 1840 to 1842

Articles/Essays – Volume 09, No. 3

Personal narratives of religious history and emigration have always been too few, commonly because ordinary people seldom undertake systematic writing. Mormons, however, were enjoined to record their experiences and great numbers of them did so;…