Methodist Missionary
History Project

New College, Edinburgh

Speakers included Reg Ward, Brian Stanley, Lamin Sanneh, Dan O'Connor and Andrew Walls. Papers from the initial conference are not available.

Sarum College, Salisbury

Keynote addresses :

• The MMS in Photographs
  Samantha Johnson
• The Catholic Spirit in Action - Methodists and the Formation of the Church of South India
  Israel Selvanayagam
• Christian Missions, Anti-Slavery and the Ambiguities of 'Civilisation', c. 1813-1873
  Brian Stanley
• Mende and Methodist: Missionary Interactions in an Emerging Church
  Sahr Yambasu

Short papers

• Ghanaian Appropriation of Wesleyan Theology in Mission 1961-2000 Casely B. Essamuah
• Methodists and Muslims in the Gambia: A Case Study - a reworked version of this paper was published as "Methodists and Muslims in The Gambia" in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 20(1), (2009), pp 61-72
  Martha T. Frederiks
• Inter-racial Mission, Building a Multiracial Church: Rev. and Mrs E.W. Grant at Work in Segregationist South Africa
  Deborah Gaitskell
• Relations between the Wesley Deaconess Order and the Missionary Society
  Dorothy Graham
• Script and scripture: studies of some MMS missionaries' contributions to writing and translation
  Alison Lewis
• A Register of British Methodist Missionaries 1769 - 2003: A Description
  Albert W. Mosley
• The Motive of Mission with particular reference to The Beginnings of Methodist Missionary Activity
  John C. Neal
• The Development of Methodism in modern-day Botswana; 19th century Nationals in Mission?
  Jennifer M. Potter
• Some Social Issues in the 20th Century
  John R. Pritchard
• 'This Apostolick Warfare': The Reverend Melvill Horne and the Development of Missions in the Late Eighteenth Century
  Suzanne Schwarz
• The Role of the Missionary after World War 2
  Geoffrey Senior
• The Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Evangelisation of the Chinese on the Victorian Goldfields in the 19th Century
  Ian Welch
• Methodism in the Zambezi Valley: 1901-1926
  John Young

Liverpool Hope University

• WMMS Finance 1813-1932
  John Lenton
• Note on Circuit Accounts and Currencies used in the Leeward Islands District(s) of the Caribbean and the Americas Up to 1806
  John Neal
• Primitive Methodist financing of World Mission
  John Young

2004 : 'Great was the Company of the Preachers'; The Recruitment, Selection and Formation of Methodist Missionaries and of the Ministry in Methodist Missions

United College of the Ascension, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• Methodist Spirituality, 1800-1950
  David W. Bebbington
• The Development of the Methodist Ministry
  John Munsey Turner
• A great company of preachers? The evolution and mutation of the missionary
  Andrew Walls
• The training of 19th and 20th century missionaries in the denominational societies and the faith missions
  Peter Williams

Short papers

• Strawberries or Shakespeare: Methodist Missions and Ministry in Korea - The Case of Yun Chi-ho (1865-1945)
  Shin Ahn
• Wesleyan Deaconess work on the west Coast of Africa 1904-1914
  Ronnie Aitchison
• 'Forth in His name we go'– to West Africa and China at least! Wesley Deaconess Work Dorothy Graham
• The Women's Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society 1858-1927
  Clive Jolliffe
• Trembling before the wind: Encounters between Methodist Missionaries and Nationalist Politics in Upper Burma 1920-1940
  Mike Leigh
• Wesley's Preachers and Missionary Vocations: Those who entered before 1791
  John Lenton
• Kingsmead 1969-77: Preparing for Mission Overseas
  Albert Mosley
• Bicentennial of the First Overseas Districts of the British Methodist Church with particular reference to the Leeward Islands Districts
  John Neal
• Measuring the Methodists: Gendering Non-conformity in British Protestant Missions
  Rhonda Semple
• Them and Us: Us and Them A comparison of the inter-faith understanding of Irish Methodists in the early nineteenth century with interfaith attitudes at the start of the twenty-first century Stephen Skuce
• Working it out for himself - the case of Edwin W. Smith, Primitive Methodist Missionary John Young

United College of the Ascension, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• 'Have you nothing to do but save men's souls?' Methodism and Social Action before 1850
  Edward Royle
• Evangelicals and the Social Order
  John Wolffe

Short papers

• Masters, Slaves and Missionaries on the Gold Coast, 1838-1851
  Scott Anderson
• Rev Edward Daniel Webb - an unlikely Victorian missionary in Belize
  Rosemary Fisher
• Female itinerants of early Primitive Methodism, with special reference to those stationed in missionary situations
  Dorothy Graham
• The Social Impact of John Wesley's Mission to Georgia - published in John Wesley in America (OUP, 2014) pp 171-77.
  Geordan Hammond
• A case of returned empties - former missionaries in 'home' circuits in the early years
  Peter Howard
• Cowboys and Indians: Methodist Missionaries in the imperial high noon of Upper Burma
  Mike Leigh
• The Dis-organisation of Society & Methodist Missions, with particular reference to slavery and the beginnings of Missionary work in the 18th and 19th centuries
  John Neal
• The Pandura Controversy of 1873: Evangelical Zeal or Assault on Ceylon Society?
  Stephen Skuce
• 'No holiness but social'
  Brian Tebbutt

Sarum College, Salisbury

Keynote addresses

• The British Methodist Contribution to Bible Translation
  Paul Ellingworth
• Methodist Missions and the Printed Word
  Andrew F Walls
• Methodist Missions and Popular Literature
  Martin Wellings

Short papers

• Methodist Missionary Magazines
  Terry Barringer
• 'Another agency in this great work': the beginnings of missionary printing in Tonga
  Martin Daly
• Missions, politics and the printed word: Richard Watson's political writing, 1813-1833
  Michael Gladwin
• John Wesley's Use of the Printed Word on the Simmonds - subsumed in John Wesley in America
  Geordan Hammond
• Grumbles, Gripes and the Gospel: The British & Foreign Bible Society, Wesleyan missionaries and political wrangling in late colonial Burma
  Mike Leigh
• The Genesis of Methodist Missions: The Interplay of Printed Word and Oral Tradition in the West Indies
  John Neal
• Atlantis and Cargate
  John Pritchard
• The place and 'problem' of conversion in 20th century Methodist missionary literature
  Norman Taggart
• John Innocent, Pioneer MNC Missionary : A Grinder to China Stuart Walters
• Edwin Smith and the Printed Word
  John Young

Selly Oak Centre for Mission Studies, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• MMS and "Development" in Rhodesia
  Albert Mosley
• The Developmental Fruit of Mission with particular reference to the work of Christian Action for Development in the Caribbean (CADEC)
  John Neal
• Development and Mission in the Context of Botswana and the Changing Role of The National Ecumenical Council
  Jennifer M. Potter
• Capacity Building. The Role of Missionary Societies and Development Agencies. A Methodist Perspective
  John Pritchard
• Mission and Development: A Reflection
  Israel Selvanayagam
• Methodist Mission and Development
  Merfyn Temple

2007 : 'All our Pomp of Yesterday': Methodist Missions and the Rising and Setting of Empire

Woodbrooke, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• Empire and Christian Missions: opposition, opportunities, obstacles - published in Christianity and History Bulletin (Summer 2010), pp. 31-43
  David Killingray
• Rhodesia Becomes Zimbabwe and the Programme to Combat Racism
  Albert Mosley
• Autonomy, Independence and Interdependence - substantially incorporated in Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900-1996 (Ashgate 2014) chapter 14
  John Pritchard
• British missionaries and the end of empire in Africa - subsumed in British Missionaries and the End of Empire (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2011)
  John Stuart

Short papers

• Wesley Deaconess Ministry in the Transvaal and Natal
  Ronald Aitchison
• The rising of empire in New Zealand: The relationship between the WMMS and Governor George Grey in the provision of Maori education, 1845-53
  Liz Clutterbuck
• Speaking Truth to Power: Ghanaian Methodists' Public Witness 1960-2000
  Casely B. Essamuah
• Preparing for Devolution to Indigenous Church Leadership: Missionary Dealings with Seth Mokitimi, First Black President of South Africa's Methodist Conference - a longer version of this paper appeared as: "Mokitimi and the Missionaries: Appraising South African Methodism's First Black President of Conference (1964)" in Swedish Missiological Themes, vol. 97, no. 4 (2009), pp. 517-539
  Deborah Gaitskell
• John Wesley's Advocacy for the Poor and Oppressed in Georgia - published in John Wesley in America (OUP, 2014), pp 178-89
  Geordan Hammond
• MMS Finance History: A retrospect and prospect
  John Lenton
• The British Methodist Church and African Nationalism in Southern Rhodesia 1950 – 1965
  Albert Mosley
• Travellers & Exhibits: Christian chiefs visit the seat of Empire
  Kirsty Murray
• Empire's impact on missionary beginnings: British, Dutch, French, Danish and Swedish
  John Neal
• Methodist Missionaries and State formation in 19th century Southern Africa
  Jennifer M. Potter
• Commerce Christianity and Civilization: The Development of the Sierra Leone Company
  Suzanne Schwarz
• Empire of the Spirit: The heart of Methodism is the heart
  Brian Tebbutt

Woodbrooke, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• British Evangelical Theology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  David Bebbington
• Theology in action and reaction: the Methodist-Buddhist Encounter in 19th century Sri Lanka - subsumed in "Memory, Experience and the Clash of Cosmologies; The Encounter between British Protestant Missionaries and Buddhism in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka" in Social Sciences and Mission (Brill) vol 25/3 (2012)
  Elizabeth Harris
• Mission House Theology: lines of development in Methodist official thinking on missions
  Andrew Walls

Short Papers

• Believing Preaching and Teaching in Methodist Missions in the Caribbean and Americas
  John Neal
• John Wesley's Inter-faith Understanding
  Stephen Skuce
• Mind the gap! - Theory and Practice on the Mission Field with reference to 19th and early 20th century Southern Africa
  Jennifer Potter
• 1913 and all that - an expanded version of this paper appeared in Methodism and History (Oxford: Applied Theology Press, 2010)
  John Pritchard
• Primitive Methodist Missiology - comprising two papers
  John Young

Woodbrooke, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• Conversion, Movements in India
  Sebastian Kim
• Indigenous Religious Movements in Central and Southern Africa
  David Maxwell
• Methodist Missions and Indigenous Religious Movements
  Andrew Walls

Short Papers

• Methodism and indigenous religions
  Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
• Medical work in South-East Nigeria
  John Bramley
• Prayer Women and Biblewomen: A Comparison of Two Indigenous Ventures among South African Methodists
  Deborah Gaitskell
• Personal Reflections of a Wesley Deaconess in Sierra Leone 1909-1913
  Dorothy Graham
• The Alleluia Church and other indigenous religions in South America
  John Neal
• Spiritual Healing Church of Prophet Mokaleng
  Jennifer Potter
• Harris Discovered
  John Pritchard
• An Irish perspective on a major controversy
  Norman Taggart
• Edwin Smith and the African Independent Churches: 1905 and 1950
  John Young

Woodbrooke, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• Strange Warmth: Methodism, the Wars and the Changing Face of Christianity in Ghana
  Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
• Opportunity and Danger: British Methodism and the Wider World in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  Michael Hughes
• The 1857 Indian Rebellion and its Impact on the Wesleyan Mission - published in Protestant Nonconformity and Christian Missions (Milton Keynes, Paternoster, 2014)
  John Pritchard
• Methodist Missions and the Little Wars of Empire
  Andrew Walls

Short papers

• A Methodist Doctor's experience of working in a Leprosy Mission Hospital in the Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan 1990-1992
  John Bramley
• The Bible and the Sword: John Thomas and the Tongan Civil War of 1837
  Martin Daly
• John Fletcher and the American Revolution
  Peter Forsaith
• A Tale of Two Chaplains: H D Hlabangane and Stanley Pitts of South Africa in the Two World Wars
  Deborah Gaitskell
• Isabel Adam, Wesley Deaconess and Experience of Life in South America and Spain 1913-1953
  Dorothy Graham
• The Eye of the Storm: Methodist missionaries and an episode from the evacuation of Upper Burma in 1942
  Mike Leigh
• War and Peace and Methodist Missions in the 20 th Century: An Irish perspective
  Norman Taggart
• Wole Soyinka and the Nigerian Civil War
  Abraham Waigi
• Sampson Oppong: the prophet who reversed the effects of war
  James Walton
• The Battlefield: a Mission field. Edwin W. Smith on the Western Front, 1915
  John Young
• Hannah Kilham and vernacular education in Africa
  Victor Zizer

Woodbrooke, Birmingham

Keynote addresses

• Between the ethnic, the national and the global: some reflections on Africa
  Barbara Bompani
• Methodist Women Abroad: Roles and Relationships
  John Pritchard
• "Without Faces": Women's Perspectives on Contextual Missiology
  Cathy Ross
• Remember all God's children: Ethnicity in Methodist mission discourse
  Andrew Walls

Short papers

• K A Busia on ethnicity, religion and nationality
  Sara Fretheim
• Women and Methodist Missions: Some Oriental and African Comparisons
  Deborah Gaitskell
• "In the beginning..." Gender, Ethnicity and the Methodist Missionary Enterprise (revised and expanded 2014)
  John Neal
• Dugdale and Snook: Pioneers in the Education of African Girls
  Jennifer Potter
• Emasculation: the experience of the Meru of Kenya under missionary Christianity
  Joshua Rutere
• Sister Gladys Stephenson and the Gendering of the Nursing Profession in China
  Rosemary Seton
• Gender and ethnicity in Methodist mission. An Irish perspective
  Norman Taggart
• A hostile tribe made him their chief: Edwin W. Smith and anthropology
  John Young
• The place of liberated females in the settlement of Sierra Leone: Hannah Kilham and the Gender Issue
  Victor Zizer

Luther King House, Manchester

Keynote addresses

• Hindu-Christian Epistolary Self-Disclosures in South India (1712-1714) and their subsequent impact on Tamil, German and English Pietism
  Daniel Jeyaraj
• Missionary Engagement with Indian Religion & Culture: Anomalies Among Methodists Eric Lott
• 'Thy heritage, the nations, take': African Religion and African Christianity
  Andrew Walls

Short papers

• Seeking First the Political Kingdom: Kwame Nkrumah's Use of Religion for Political Gain
  Sara Fretheim
• Praying, Conferring and Wayfaring: Johannesburg Methodists Relating to Other Churches and Other Faiths, 1902-1939
  Deborah Gaitskell
• Missions, Space and Conflict: a case study of Wesleyan Methodist missionaries in the Buddhist villages of nineteenth century Sri Lanka
  Elizabeth Harris
• Wesleyan Mission and indentured labour in Natal
  Jo Hibbard
• Methodist and Moravian Relationships in the North East Caribbean 1789-1989
  John Neal
• Methodist Missions and some interactions with African Traditional Religion Jennifer M. Potter
• Aborted Union Schemes - published in Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900-1996 (Ashgate 2014) chapter 11
  John Pritchard
• The missional relations of the Methodist Church Ghana with other Methodist bodies
  Kirk S. Sims
• Dr. McCrea (1880-1963), Christian Mission and other faiths
  Norman Taggart
• William E. Soothill (1861-1935): missionary and sinologist
  John Young

Hinsley Hall, Leeds

Keynote addresses

• The Context of Methodist Missions: Global Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth Century
  David Bebbington
• Yorkshire in 1813 - published in Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society (vol 59 part 6), October 2014)
  Edward Royle

Short papers

• Wesleyan Traditions from Africa to Africans: Ghanaian Methodist Missions to Nigeria and the Gambia
  Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
• Heathen Stubbornness: Early Wesleyan Methodist Mission on Grenada, West Indies (1780s-1830s)
  Paula Aymer
• Writing Mission History: Thomas Coke on Methodism in the Bahamas
  David Bundy
• Lay supporters of the WMMS, 1813-1869
  David Jeremy
• Work Consultancy Services for Missionaries, 1975 – 95
  George Lovell
• William Warrener's Contribution to Methodist Missionary History
  John Neal
• Treasure Trove or Missionary Memorabilia
  John Neal
• Catching the Research Wave: Reflecting on Four Years of the Christian Missions in Global History Seminar
  Rosemary Seton and Deborah Gaitskell
• An Irish perspective on Leeds 1813 and its significance for Ireland and world mission
  Norman Taggart
• Friend of China: Lady Dorothea Hosie (1885-1959)
  John Young