Wesley Historical Society Annual General Meeting and
Annual Lecture 2021
The meetings below will be online only.
The 2021 Annual General Meeting
for members of the Society will be Thursday 8th July
2021 at 2 pm and will be held on Zoom. Members wishing to attend should contact
distribution@wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk
by no later than 1st July
2021 for a Zoom link.
The 2021 Wesley Historical Society Annual Lecture
will take place on Saturday 10th
July 2021 at 4 pm. The speaker is Dr Kate
Tiller who will speak on 'Communities of Dissent : Methodist people,
places and environments 1850 to 1930.' Anyone wishing to attend this should contact
distribution@wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk
by no later than 3rd July 2021
for a Zoom link.
This is an opportunity for overseas members to be able to join us
and the timing is adjusted accordingly.
Communities of Dissent:
Methodist people, places and environments, 1850 -1930
Where and why did Methodism thrive or falter in English communities in the key period between the 1850s and 1930s? This lecture will use the approaches of local history and the perspectives of family and community studies to discuss contrasting Methodist experiences of growth, maturity and decline and the factors which moulded them. It will reflect in particular on David Hempton's contention that Methodism thrived most where it 'forged a symbiotic fit with its host environments'. (D.Hempton, Methodism.Empire of the Spirit (2005), p.7)
From
the Scottish Church History Society : Invitation to an
additional event, for
Scottish Church History Society 2021 Spring Conference free via Zoom on
Saturday 13 March 2021 11.00am to 4.00pm.
Professor David Bebbington is giving the keynote lecture on "Methodism in Victorian
Shetland."
The following programme, now cancelled, gives an outline of a typical Annual Meeting and Lecture.
Recent Annual Lectures |
|
2013 | Revd Margaret P, Jones MA, M Phil |
2014 | Professor Michael Hughes, |
2015 | Rev Dr Stephen Hatcher |
2016 | Emeritus Professor John Richard Watson Formerly Professor of English, University of Durham. ‘Charles Wesley and eighteenth-century poetry’ |
2017 2018 2019 |
Mr Gary M. Best M.A.
(Headmaster Kingswood School 1987-2008)
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