JOHN WESLEY’S CHAPEL - THE NEW ROOM
THE HORSEFAIR, BRISTOL
10.15am
On arrival Tea and coffee available from the 'Coffee Morning' event
10.30am
A tour of the New Room
11.00am
A tour of Charles Wesley’s House (admission charge £5)
12.15pm - Lunch Break
Either bring your own food or purchase sandwiches from nearby shops to eat in the New Room
1.00pm
The Annual General Meeting
2.30pm
The Annual Lecture
Chaired by Dr Gary Best
Warden of John Wesley’s Chapel-The New Room and former Head of Kingswood School
Author of Charles Wesley : A Biography
Lecturer Professor John Wolffe
The Open University and Author of
The Protestant Crusade in Great Britain 1825-60
God and Greater Britain. Religion and National Life in Britain and Ireland 1843-1945
Great Deaths, Grieving, Religion and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
The Expansion of Evangelicalism,The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chambers and Finney
SUBJECT
PAST AND PRESENT: TAKING THE LONG VIEW OF METHODIST AND ANGLICAN HISTORY
A comparison of Methodist and Anglican church growth and decline in the earlier nineteenth century and later twentieth century
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' |
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For further information email Rev David J Hart conferencesecretary@wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk
