Rev Tim Woolley, 'The Role of Camp Meetings in the Origins of Primitive Methodism'
Tim Woolley is a PhD student at Cliff College, under the supervision of Rev Dr Martin Welling. He has recently presented papers at the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies and the Methodist Identities Conference, Cambridge on the origins of Primitive Methodism. His thesis research draws from a number of sources, including the Englesea Brook Primitive Methodist Collection, the Wesley Historical Society Library in Oxford and the Burslem Wesleyan Circuit archives held at Hanley Library, Stoke on Trent. He is a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society, the Wesley Historical Society and the Society of Cirplanologists. Interests outside his thesis research lie in the wider field of 19th century British Methodism separated from Wesleyanism, older Non-Conformity (the subject of his MA thesis was the New Connexion of General Baptists) and contemporary missiology and post-modern apologetics. Tim is an ordained minister in the British Methodist Conference, and works as Director of Mission for the Northampton District of that church.
