WESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

2023 Annual General Meeting and Annual Lecture. Details to follow.

Recent Annual Lectures

2013

Revd Margaret P, Jones MA, M Phil
Former Methodist Connexional Team Leader of the Formation in Ministry Office and Secretary for Presbyteral Ministry
'Grand-daughters to Susanna: Women's discipleship in Wesleyan Methodism, 1800-1850'

2014

Professor Michael Hughes,
Professor of Russian and International History - University of Liverpool.
'Methodism and the Challenge of the First World War'

2015

Rev Dr Stephen Hatcher
Chair Methodist Heritage Sites Network Forum.
'Prims in Print: the changing character of Primitive Methodism as seen through its literature'

2016

Emeritus Professor John Richard Watson
Formerly Professor of English, University of Durham.
'Charles Wesley and eighteenth-century poetry'

2017

Mr Gary M. Best M.A. (Headmaster Kingswood School 1987-2008)
John Cennick: the first Son of the Gospel
The lecture explored how John Cennick emerged as the first lay preacher,
and how significant his contribution was, why he fell out with the Wesleys and his later life.

2018

Dr. Clive Field OBE. Honary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham.
Bibliography Editor Wesley Historical Society.
'Crosses on the Ballot: The Political Alignment of British Methodists 1832-2017.'

2019

Rev. Dr. Ceri Jones, BA, FRHISTS, Reader in Early Modern History, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University.
'John Gilles, George Whitefield and the making of an evangelical past.'

2021

Dr Kate Tiller, OBE, DL, BA, PhD Birmingham, MA Oxford, FSA, FRHistS.
                        'Communities of Dissent : Methodist people, places and environments 1850 to 1930.'

2022

Professor Douglas Strong. Paul T. Walls of Weslyan Studies and the History of Christianity. Seattle Pacific University.
A Practical Wesleyan-Holiness Theology as Foundational for 19^th Century Transatlantic Racial Justice Advocacy'

Wesley Historical Society Conference, Friday 17 June 2022

John Wesley's New Room, 36 The Horsefair, Broadmead, Bristol BS1 3JE

Draft programme

Thursday 16 June

19.00 Informal conference dinner

Friday 17 June

10.00 Arrivals; coffee available from 10.30; New Room museum open

11.00-11.15 Introduction and welcome (Rev. Dr Tim Macquiban)

11.15-11.30 Rev. P. J. Jackson (Bristol and South Gloucestershire Methodist
Circuit)

11.30-12.00 Dr Edson Burton (Bristol-based historian)

'Renewal and action: Bristol reimagines the Transatlantic Slave Trade 1994-2021'

12.00-12.30 Dr John Lenton (WHS)

'Two Black Methodist female evangelists compared: Zilpha Elaw Schum and Amanda Berry Smith in Britain

12.30-14.00 Lunch; optional visit to New Room library and archive or Charles Wesley’s house

14.00-15.00 Dr Clive Norris (WHS)

'John Wesley and enslavement revisited'

Daniel Johnson (University of Leicester)

'"And Wash the Ethiop White": Whiteness as salvation and the reception history of Wesley's Conversion Hymn'

15.00-15.15 Readings and prayers (Rev. Dr Tim Macquiban)

15.15-16.15 Annual Lecture (Professor Douglas Strong)

'A Practical Wesleyan-Holiness Theology as Foundational for 19^th Century Transatlantic Racial Justice Advocacy'

16.15-16.45 Members' update (brief presentations on current research etc.)

16.45 Afternoon Tea / End of Conference

	Recent Annual Lectures
2013	Revd Margaret P, Jones MA, M Phil Former Methodist Connexional Team Leader of the Formation in Ministry Office and Secretary for Presbyteral Ministry 'Grand-daughters to Susanna: Women's discipleship in Wesleyan Methodism, 1800-1850'
2014	Professor Michael Hughes, Professor of Russian and International History - University of Liverpool. 'Methodism and the Challenge of the First World War'
2015	Rev Dr Stephen Hatcher Chair Methodist Heritage Sites Network Forum. 'Prims in Print: the changing character of Primitive Methodism as seen through its literature'
2016	Emeritus Professor John Richard Watson Formerly Professor of English, University of Durham. 'Charles Wesley and eighteenth-century poetry'
2017	Mr Gary M. Best M.A. (Headmaster Kingswood School 1987-2008) John Cennick: the first Son of the Gospel The lecture explored how John Cennick emerged as the first lay preacher, and how significant his contribution was, why he fell out with the Wesleys and his later life.
2018	Dr. Clive Field OBE. Honary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. Bibliography Editor Wesley Historical Society. 'Crosses on the Ballot: The Political Alignment of British Methodists 1832-2017.'
2019	Rev. Dr. Ceri Jones, BA, FRHISTS, Reader in Early Modern History, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University. 'John Gilles, George Whitefield and the making of an evangelical past.'
2021	Dr Kate Tiller, OBE, DL, BA, PhD Birmingham, MA Oxford, FSA, FRHistS. 'Communities of Dissent : Methodist people, places and environments 1850 to 1930.'
2022	Professor Douglas Strong. Paul T. Walls of Weslyan Studies and the History of Christianity. Seattle Pacific University. A Practical Wesleyan-Holiness Theology as Foundational for 19^th Century Transatlantic Racial Justice Advocacy'