Some thoughts on dancing, a beautiful case of birds and the little scholar: a look at the Preachers’ Letters and Portraits archive
Cataloguing correspondence from the Methodist Archives and Research Centre collections
Tag: Methodism
‘There is Something for You in this Train’: The Hocking Collection
The Hocking Collection contains novels, short stories, and other writings by the Cornish siblings Silas Kitto Hocking (1850-1935), Salome HockingContinue Reading
A Chaplain’s Story: The Great War Journey of John Henry Gibbon
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: In September 2018, the Library accepted on deposit into the Methodist archives a small collection ofContinue Reading
Rapture and Reason Revisited
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: In September 2016 the University of Manchester Library digitised and placed online a collection of 153Continue Reading
An argument in books: Augustus Toplady versus John Wesley
Long before social media, people could still engage in vitriolic public debates without actually meeting. The rise of the cheapContinue Reading
Rapture and Reason: Accounts of Evangelical Conversion in Georgian Britain
Gareth Lloyd writes: “Western culture … had its foundation in the bible, the word of God, and in the revivalsContinue Reading
A Mystery Methodist: Is this John Wesley, Charles Wesley or someone completely different?
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: One of the fascinating aspects of working with special collections is the opportunity to uncover treasuresContinue Reading
Representations of Jews and Judaism in the Works of the Methodist theologian Adam Clarke (1762-1832)
In another fruitful collaboration between the University’s Centre for Jewish Studies and the John Rylands Research Institute, Dr Simon MayersContinue Reading
Library acquires an autograph John Wesley letter, lost to public view since the 1840s
Gareth Lloyd writes: The Library has recently purchased from a private owner a significant handwritten letter written by the MethodistContinue Reading