Tag: Methodist Archives and Research Centre
The Home Mission Papers
Fiona Doran and Karen Jacques write: In April of this year we were given the opportunity to work on theContinue Reading
Methodist Ministers at War: Wesleyan Chaplains of World War I
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: On 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany starting the countries involvement in what becameContinue Reading
Rylands represented at the world’s largest religious studies conference
Dr Gareth Lloyd, curator of Christian religious archives, represented the Library at the joint annual meeting of the American AcademyContinue 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
Rylands represented at the world’s largest gathering of religious scholars
Dr Gareth Lloyd, the Library’s curator of Christian religious archives, represented the Library at the joint annual meeting of theContinue 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
Wesley College Archives and Manuscripts Now Accessible at the John Rylands Library
Gareth Lloyd writes: One of the world’s most important research collections documenting the history of British Methodism and the 18th-centuryContinue Reading
New book on John Wesley published by University of Manchester PhD graduate
Dr Geordan Hammond, a University of Manchester PhD graduate, has recently published John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity (OxfordContinue Reading