The Centre is delighted to announce the publication of Methodism in Great Britain and Ireland: A Select Bibliography of Published Local Histories by Clive D. Field. This volume is a joint production with the Wesley Historical Society.
Methodism has been a dominant force in the religious landscape of Great Britain and Ireland since its emergence in the eighteenth century. Its development has been richly documented in terms of the careers and achievements of the Wesleys and other connexional leaders. Yet it was at the local level that the ‘lived experience’ (social as well as spiritual) of Methodism was most evidenced, through the members and adherents of individual societies and chapels and in Methodist schools and colleges.
This volume offers the first systematic bibliography of local histories of Methodism. It cannot be comprehensive (for, at its peak, there must have been at least 17,000 chapels and other preaching places in the British Isles) but it does list around 4,000 of the most important publications on local Methodism from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. They are arranged topographically, according to current civil administrative units, and with a cumulative index of place names.
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