ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND LECTURE
Annual Lectures
| Year | 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 Wesleyan Studies and the History of Christianity. Seattle Pacific University. A Practical Wesleyan-Holiness Theology as Foundational for 19th Century Transatlantic Racial Justice Advocacy’ |
| 2023 | Professor W Gibson. ‘John Wesley’s debt to his father, Samuel’ |
| 2024 | Rev Dr Julie A Lunn. ‘Seeing and singing: structure and technique in the iconographic tradition in the hymns of Charles Wesley,’ |
| 2025 | Mrs. Susan Howdle. Vice President of Conference 1993, and a long-time member of the Law and Polity Committee. ‘From Age to Age the same? A lifetimes reflection on the Methodist Conference.’ |
| 2026 | Professor David Bebbington of Stirling University. ‘Wesleyan Discipline at Brunswick Chapel, Leeds, 1825-1875’. |