Martin Wellings, M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist. Soc., F.S.A.

Superintendent Minister of the Barnet & Queensbury Circuit

Martin Wellings has worked on the history of the Evangelical school in the Church of England, leading to his first book, Evangelicals Embattled: Responses of Evangelicals in the Church of England to Ritualism, Darwinism and Theological Liberalism 1890-1930 (2003). His subsequent research has focussed principally on Methodist history, including Evangelicals in Methodism: Mainstream, marginal or misunderstood? (2005), and studies of Susanna Wesley (published in 2008 in The Heart of Faith. Following Christ in the Church of England, edited by Andrew Atherstone), the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship (‘Discipline in dispute: the origins and early history of the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship’, in Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Discipline and Diversity (Studies in Church History 43 [2007]) the Methodist Revival Fellowship (the Wesley Historical Society Lecture for 2009, published in the Society’s Proceedings), Luke Tyerman (‘Luke Tyerman and the history of Early Methodism’, in Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones (eds), Making Evangelical History. Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (2019) and Hugh Price Hughes (‘Hugh Price Hughes and the Revival of Oxford Methodism’, Methodist History, April 2020 (58:3). With Peter Forsaith, he co-edited Methodism and History (2010), a Festschrift for Dr John Vickers, and with William Gibson and Peter Forsaith, The Ashgate Research Companion to World Methodism (2013).

He is currently working on an edition of Oxford Wesleyan Local Preachers’ records for the Oxfordshire Record Society, and on a collection of essays on the Anglican-Methodist ‘Conversations’ of the 1960s.