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

  1. Ø  Key-note speakers
  2. Ø  Engaging with people working on family history
  3. Ø  Marking the 150 Anniversary of the Methodist Recorder and celebrating the contribution it has made in preserving Methodist memories

 

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


Recent Annual Lectures

 

 

2005        Dr John A Hargreaves MA F R Hist S, - Torquay Methodist Conference

Teignmouth Methodist Church, Devon

‘A warmed heart and a disciplined mind perfectly joined': Sister Dorothy Hincksman Farrar (1899-1987) and the evolution of Women's ministry in Methodism’

 

            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

‘When did Methodists stop attending their parish churches? Some suggestions from mid-nineteenth century Yorkshire’’

 

 

2009        Rev Dr Martin Wellings MA - Superintendent of the Oxford Methodist Circuit,

Wesley Memorial Church - Oxford

‘The Methodist Revival Fellowship 1952-1987’’

 

 

2010        Rev Robin P Roddie BA,

Hon. Archivist of the Wesley Historical Society in Ireland Methodist Central Hall Westminster

‘Keeping The Faith. Ireland's Primitive Methodism’’


 

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