EVENTS
RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE 2011
Dates 3 – 5 May 2011
Place Launde Abbey on the borders of Leicestershire and Rutland
Theme Memorializing and remembering: Life stories in Methodism
For further Information download a printable flier (click here) about this conference
or email Rev David J Hart
conferencesecretary@wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk
For a copy of the Registration Form for this Conference, download (click here) and send it to Rev David J Hart
conferencesecretary@wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk
2011 ANNUAL LECTURE, AGM,
& SUPPORTING PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 25th JUNE 2011
ST DEINIOL’S RESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, HAWARDEN, FLINTSHIRE
Founded in 1894 by the former Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
(Approx 10 minutes by car from Chester and 15 minutes from the M56 Motorway)
MORNING PROGRAMME
10.30am
On arrival Tea and coffee available
11.00am
Rev Donald H Ryan M Th.
(Former Chair of North Wales Methodist District and Methodist Advisor to St Deiniol’s Library)
Will chair the morning’s programme and give a presentation
‘20th century perspective on Methodism in North Wales’
11.30am
Mr E Alan Rose BA Editor of the Proceedings 1980-2010
Will speak about Methodism in Cheshire and the Welsh Borders
12 Noon - Lunch Break
Lunch may be purchased in the Cafeteria
AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
12.45pm
The Annual General Meeting
Chaired by the Rev Dr John A Newton MA
2.30pm
The Annual Lecture
Chaired by
Dr J Lionel Madden CBE
Honorary Fellow of University of Wales Lampeter and Former Chief Librarian National Library of Wales
LECTURER
Dr Eryn White
Senior Lecturer Department of History and Welsh History Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
SUBJECT
Wesley and Whitefield and Wales
The lecture will focus on the impact of John Wesley and George Whitefield on Wales. The lecture will also examine why in the Religious Census of 1851 Calvinistic Methodism was the largest Non-conformist denomination in Wales with the Wesleyan Methodists in fourth place behind the Welsh Independents and the Baptists.
There will be an opportunity to explore this outstanding library which has an important Methodist and Religious collection of books.
Overnight accommodation may be booked by friends wishing to have time to explore the library.
Full details may be had from Dr John A Hargreaves, 7 Haugh Shaw Road, Halifax. HX1 3AH
E-mail: johnahargreaves@blueyonder.co.uk
2005 Dr John A Hargreaves MA F R Hist S, - Torquay Methodist Conference
Teignmouth Methodist Church, Devon
2006 Dr Margaret Batty MA BD, Nicholson Square Methodist
Church Edinburgh
‘Primitive Methodism in Scotland’
2007 The Rev Professor Kenneth G C Newport D Phil
The Nazarene
Theological College, Manchester
‘Charles Wesley Warts And All - The Evidence Of The Prose Works’
2008 Professor Edward Royle,
Mount Zion Methodist Church and Heritage Centre, Ogden, Halifax
2009 Rev Dr Martin Wellings MA - Superintendent of the Oxford Methodist Circuit,
Wesley Memorial Church - Oxford
2010 Rev Robin P Roddie BA,
Hon. Archivist of the Wesley Historical Society in Ireland Methodist Central Hall Westminster
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