Moojan Momen, “An Analysis of Two Growth Spurts of the British Baha’i Community"

If one looks at the graph of the size of the British Bahá’í community during the course of the first 50 years of the twentieth century, it is noticeable that there were two spurts of growth: one occurring in 1911-1913 and the second in 1944-1950. The first is easily explained since it is the period of the visit of `Abdu’l-Bahá to the British Isles. However, there are a number of aspects of this visit that warrant closer inspection. . . .