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Synopsis
A listener in Hampshire wants to know more about the career of a Methodist Missionary the Reverend Draper. In investigating his life 'Making History' finds out more about the worldwide influence of the Methodist church.
We head for Suffolk to find out more about Medieval Deer Parks and discover that they were in existence in earlier Roman times.
In Manchester a listeners family history reveals a link to the man who led a Jacobite mob in an attack on a chapel in the city in 1715. Vanessa travels north to find out why Jacobite's were active in north west England.
You can send us questions or an outline of your own research.
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Methodism in Britain
Mark Brooks in Fareham, Hampshire wrote to Making History about a Reverend Draper who was born 200 years ago. A carpenter by trade, he became a member of the Fareham Wesleyan Methodist Society in 1830. Five years later he sailed to Australia as a Methodist missionary where he built around 25 chapels. His 30 years in Australia was roughly divided equally between New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. Sadly Draper and his wife drowned aboard the S.S.London returning from a trip to his homeland.
Making History wanted to understand more about the influence of Methodism in Britain and further afield. Vanessa spoke to Professor Steve King at the University of Leicester, who has written on the influence of Methodism on health and social welfare in nineteenth century England, and the Reverend John Pritchard who is writing a history of the Methodist Missionary Society.
Useful Link: The Cultural Influence of Methodism
Part Three of "Religious Revival and the Transformation of English Sensibilities in the Early Ninteeenth Century", © Herbert Schlossberg
Useful Link: Influence of Methodism
Useful Link: Dictionary of Methodism
Useful Link: Methodist Heritage
The Methodist Heritage Handbook is free from Methodist Publishing. You can obtain it by emailling resources@methodistchurch.org.uk or by calling 01733 235962.
Useful Link: The Mundus Gateway
Information about missionary archives, including the Methodist Missionary Society collection at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Useful Link: The Methodist Archives and Research Centre
The Methodist Archives and Research Centre at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester
Useful Link: The Manchester Wesley Research Centre
Useful Link:Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History
Useful Link: International Mission Photography Archive
The Internet Mission Photograph Archive, illustrating missionary work visually through photographs.
Useful Link: The Methodist Church Oral Archive
The Methodist Church Oral Archive is held at the British Library.
Useful Link: British Online Archive
Certain digitized Methodist periodicals may be consulted on-line, for a fee, at the British Online Archives.
Useful Link: The Methodist Missionary Society History Project
Useful Link: The Wesley Historical Society
Usseful Link: Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society
The annual Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society can be purchased by emailing:
himsworth@bbmax.co.uk
and the new annual Wesley and Methodist Studies by emailing:
didsburypress@nazarene.ac.uk
PEDESTRIANISM
Following last week’s item on the female endurance walker Madam Angelo, listener David Walsh emailed:
"Your programme today talked about 'pedestrianism' and concluded that this kind of endurance walking died out at some 100 years ago.
I think an element of it lived on in the shape of the late Dr Barbara Moore, who in the early 1960's seemed to transfix the nation with her long distance endurance walks the length and breadth of the nation.
I remember listening to Jack De Manio on the original Today programme who seemed besotted with this rather matronly lady, and had daily progress reports aired on the programme".
DEER PARKS
Medieval stock control or status symbol? Richard Daniel met up with Dr Robert Liddiard from the University of East Anglia at Eye in Suffolk to find out more.
Dr Liddiard pointed out that for many years deer parks were seen as a Norman introduction to Britain. However, there is evidence in both Saxon and Roman Britain of land being set aside for deer. It was the Romans who introduced them to these islands in the first place and parks were a way of managing their numbers.
In time, however, deer parks were much more than keeping control of deer numbers. They became symbols of an individual’s position in society. In the middle ages they were often part of a Bishop’s palace (for example the Bishop of Norwich had a deer park at South Elmham in North Suffolk). Dr Liddiard has studied deer parks in Norfolk and his some of his research can be seen by following the link below.
Further Reading:
The Deer Parks of Domesday Book
ISBN/ISSN 1466-2035
Publisher Windgather
Journal Title Landscapes
Volume, full citation 4 (1)
The Medieval Park: New Perspectives
ISBN/ISSN 9781905119165
Windgather Press
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Neil MacGregor – Director of the British Museum – has chosen the 100th object and this will be revealed on the 14 October. But, what would you chose. Which object sums up life today?
Go to the A History of the World website and have your say …
Jacobites in Manchester
Making History listener Ian Siddall is researching his family name and has discovered a Thomas Syddall who led a Jacobite attack on Cross Street Presbyterian chapel in Manchester.
This was the first act of the 1715 Rebellion. The doors and windows were smashed in, the pulpit and pews pulled down and everything portable carried away so that only the badly damaged walls remained.
After the 1715 Rebellion had been suppressed Tom Sydall was hanged at Manchester and his head impaled on the Market Cross.
Vanessa caught up with Professor Daniel Szechi from the University of Manchester who explained the intricate politics of the early eighteenth century.
Further Reading
The Jacobites: Britain and Europe, 1688-1788
by Daniel Szechi
Manchester University Press 1994
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