2013 ANNUAL LECTURE & ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
10.00am
On arrival Tea and coffee with an opportunity view at exhibition in the Church
10.30am
Welcome with a choice of a
Guided Epworth Town Heritage Walk
incorporating St Andrews Parish Church, Wesley and Alexander Kilham (Methodist New Connexion) sites
OR
An Epworth Old Rectory Tour
To book a place on either tour please telephone 01427-872268
12.00 noon - Lunch Break
Either bring your own food
or Pre Book a 2 course lunch at Wesley Memorial Church by ringing 01427-872319
12.45 pm
The Annual General Meeting
2.30pm
The Annual Lecture
Lecturer Revd Margaret P, Jones MA, M Phil
The Revd Margaret P. Jones read History at Somerville College, Oxford and taught the subject in Secondary Schools. Trained for the Methodist Ministry at Wesley House, Cambridge. Served in Circuit and tutored in theological education. Was the Methodist Connexional Team Leader of the Formation in Ministry Office and Secretary for Presbyteral Ministry
SUBJECT
‘Grand-daughters to Susanna: Women’s discipleship in Wesleyan Methodism, 1800-1850’
5.00 pm
A Tour of Epworth Old Rectory
Please pre book by telephoning 01427-872268
10.45am
Worship at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Epworth
Marking the 120th Anniversary of the Wesley Historical Society
Preacher Rev Dr Martin Wellings
Full details may be had from Dr John A Hargreaves, 7 Haugh Shaw Road, Halifax. HX1 3AH
E-mail: johnahargreaves@blueyonder.co.uk
| 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' |
| 2011 | Dr Eryn White Senior Lecturer in Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, Gladstone Library, St Deiniol's, Hawarden, North Wales 'Wesley and Whitefield and Wales' |
| 2012 | Professor John Wolffe |
Dates: 26th to 28th June 2014
Place: High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Theme: 'Methodism and Conflict'
The next Wesley Historical Conference will be held at the High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire from 26th to 28th June 2014. The title of the conference is 'Methodism and Conflict' and marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the conference will explore Methodism’s response to conflict. As well as examining how Methodism responded to both world wars, the conference will also examine the challenges and impact of conflict on the theology and pastoral life of the Methodist people. The conference will explore the way that Methodists have responded to, and been involved in, conflict. Implicit within the theme is an approach to understand the individual, as opposed to the institutional, responses to war and conflict, both in terms of the physical and social impact as well as theological and moral in the context of war and conflict.
The conference will include the annual society lecture which will be given by Professor Michael Hughes, Professor of Russian and European history at Liverpool University. Among the other topics to be presented will be the role of Methodist military chaplains, Methodism and conscientious objection in two world wars, and Methodism and the occupation of the Channel Islands 1940 – 45.
It is hoped that there will be participants at the Conference from the Methodist Church in Germany and from the United States of America. Offers of papers for inclusion in the conference programme are most welcome and a brief synopsis should be sent to the Conference Secretary as soon as possible.
Booking information about the conference will be available in the Spring of 2013 and details will be provided both on this website and in the WHS ' Proceedings '
For further information email Rev David J Hart conferencesecretary@wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk
