Written and presented by Dr Jonathan Rodell, a tutor at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this documentary summarises and accompanies his recent book of the same title which was published jointly by the Boydell Press and the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society.
An 'outstanding and exemplary piece of historical scholarship' - Methodist Recorder.
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This radical re-examination of the largest popular movement in Georgian England gives a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in an unlikely stronghold. It digs beneath the seemingly steady advance portrayed by official membership returns to uncover a much more unstable and rapidly changing picture. One in which different generations and social groups appropriated the religious structures of the movement as vehicles to express a wide variety of aspirations and grievances.