Welcome to the MWRC

The Manchester Wesley Research Centre promotes and supports research on the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries in the 18th century Evangelical Revival, their historical and theological antecedents, their successors in the Wesleyan tradition, and contemporary scholarship in the Wesleyan and Evangelical tradition. This includes areas such as theology, history, biblical studies, education, ethics, literature, mission, philosophy, pastoral studies, practical theology, and social theology.

The MWRC is located on the campus of Nazarene Theological College in the Manchester suburb of Didsbury and is affiliated with the Methodist Archives, housed in The University of Manchester John Rylands Library. These research centres provide magnificent resources for students and researchers in this field.

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If you are interested in further information about the Wesley Centre and its programmes, or would like to be placed on the mailing list for information about forthcoming events, please contact the Administrator or Director at the following address:

Manchester Wesley Research Centre
Dene Road
Didsbury, Manchester
England M20 2GU

MWRC Director
Revd Herbert B. McGonigle, Ph.D.
Email: HMcgonigle@nazarene.ac.uk 

MWRC Research Fellow & Administrator
Geordan Hammond, Ph.D.
Email: ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk

Postgraduate Assistant
Joseph Cunningham
Email: joseph.cunningham@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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John H. Y. Briggs, M.A., F.R.Hist.Soc., Senior Research Fellow in Church History and Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford.

John Briggs is Senior Research Fellow in Church History and is also the Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage. He is also Research Professor in Baptist History at International Baptist Theological Seminary. John is a past chairman of the Baptist World Alliance's Baptist History and Heritage Commission (1990-95). He was editor of The Baptist Quarterly between 1985-2008.

His major publications include:

Victorian Nonconformity (1973) with Ian Sellers; Freedom: A Baptist View (1978); The English Baptists of the Nineteenth Century (1994); 'British Baptists and the beginnings of the Baptist World Alliance', Baptist Quarterly 41.1, Jan. 2005; 'Baptists and the Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade', Baptist Quarterly 42.4 (October 2007); (ed.) with Stephen Orchard, The Sunday School Movement: Studies in the Growth and Decline of Sunday Schools (2007); (ed.) Pulpit and People: Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Baptist Life and Thought (2009); (ed.), Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought (Paternoster, forthcoming); see also Ecumenism and History: Studies in Honour of John H.Y. Briggs (ed.) Anthony Cross (2002).