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The impact of methodism on black country society 1743-1860
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Leese, R.
The University of Manchester
1972
Ph.D.
The University of Manchester
1972
This thesis is concerned to investigate the impact ofMethodism on the developing industrial region of SouthStaffordshire and North Worcestershire which during the courseof the nineteenth century became commonly known as 'the BlackCountry'. The period under consideration extends from thefirst visit of John Wesley to Wednesbury in 1743 to the year1860 by which time Methodism had experienced the last of itss ec ess ionary upheavals, Attention is given in the firstinstance to the changing character of economic life and to thenew units of society which came into being with the spread ofindustrialisation. After an examination of Methodism's initialimpact and. of the difficulties which it encountered during theearly stages of its establishment in the district, the fortunesof the individual Methodist bodies, namely, the parent Wesleyanism,the Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodism and theUnited Methodist Free Churches, are studied in turn. Specialreference is made to the social composition of their membership,the distinctiveness of their appeal, the scope of their chapelbuilding programme and the secession of Wesleyans in Dudleyand Stourbridge which proved so advantageous to the hew Connexion.In the final chapter, the analysis is widened and some assessmentis attempted of Methodism's involvement in political andworking-class movements, its contribution to Sunday and DaySchool educational provision, its charitable undertakings andits moral influence in the area at large. It is 'concludedthat Methodism exercised a many-sided if not wholly pervasiveimpact and that it was one of the dominant elements in shapingthe ethos of the new industrialised society.
Leese, R.
The University of Manchester
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