Clive D. Field, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham, England, has published extensively on the social history of religion in Britain and of Methodism in particular. Here he uses a variety of sources to compile a catalogue of local histories of Methodism in Britain and Ireland, including all of the Arminian varieties of Methodism that make up the Methodist Church in Britain and the Methodist Church in Ireland, along with the continuingly separate Wesleyan Reform Union and Independent Methodist Churches.
The book’s 4,000 entries Field acknowledges as ‘only the tip of the bibliographical iceberg’ (xiv) but argues that those included do constitute the most important items, based the substantive nature of the titles, regarding length, quality of research and writing, the importance of the subject, and the absence of competitor publications.
Field hopes that the work will provide the springboard...
