The Association of Denominational Historical Societies & Cognate Libraries
List of our Annual Lectures
1993 Dr Jeremy Goring
1994 Revd Dr Roger Hayden (Baptist Historical Society) A Sprightly tune : eighteenth-century Baptist hymnody and evangelical experience
1995 Revd Dr Alan Argent (Congregational Historical Society) Ruskin, Coventry Patmore and the Congregational minister
1996 Dr Rosemary Moore (Friends Historical Society) Friendly disputes ; Quakers and others at loggerheads in the seventeenth century
1997 Revd Dr David Cornick (United Reformed Church Historical Society) Widows, Wadis and Westminster : a tale of two Victorian sisters
1998 Revd J E Wynne Davies (Presbyterian Church of Wales Historical Society) The Welsh Presbyterian mission to Brittany
1999 Revd Dr Henry Rack (Wesley Historical Society) But Lord, Let it be Betsy: Love and marriage in early Methodism
2000 Revd Dr Kenneth Dix (Strict Baptist Historical Society) The saints' melody: Strict Baptist hymn music
2001 Revd Dr Geraint Tudur (Welsh Independents' Historical Society) Howell Harris : How he came to be in the wilderness
2002 Revd Dr Densil Morgan (Welsh Baptist Historical Society) Wales and the Princeton Theology
2003 Revd Professor Alan Sell (United Reformed Church Historical Society) From worms to sunbeams: The dilution of English Calvinism in English Congregationalism, 1830-1930
2004 Revd Dennis Desert (Huguenot Society) The Stranger Community and the Established Church
2005 Patrick Johnson (New Church Historical Society) Social Conscience and activity - Swedenborg's doctrine of Uses
2006 Alan Ruston (Unitarian Historical Society) Were Joseph Austen and Neville Chamberlain Unitarian?
2007 Professor David Killingray (Goldsmiths College, University of London) Wild and visionary doctrines : 'Nonconformists' and the abolition of the British slave trade, 1760s -- 1807 marking the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
2008 David J Hall (Friends Historical Society) Quaker reading in the Eighteeenth Century