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Comments about this page
David Tonks points out that a couple of these books have recently been added to the Internet Archive:
Thomas Shaw’s The Bible Christians 1815 – 1907 is at:
https://archive.org/details/biblechristians10000shaw
and Richard Pyke’s The early Bible Christians is at:
https://archive.org/details/earlybiblechrist0000unse
Although neither of them can be downloaded, they are both in the ‘Borrow for one hour category’ which is free for registered users; each hour can be extended if no-one else wants the book..
Additional books to add to the list:
Bourne, F. W. The King’s Son: or, A Memoir of Billy Bray. Compiled Chiefly from his Own Memoranda. Bible Christian Book-Room. London (1871)
Court, Lewis H. The Romance of a Country Circuit. Sketches of Village Methodism. Henry Hooks. London (1921).
FW Bourne’s book, The Bible Christians, is available as a digital download: from Amazon UK
In addition to Jennifer Lloyd’s book, further work regarding the Female Itinerant Preachers of the Bible Christian Connexion can be found in the following texts:
Valenze, Deborah M. Prophetic Sons and Daughters. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ (1985).
Field-Bibb, Jacqueline. Women Towards Priesthood. Ministerial Politics and Feminist Praxis. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK (1991).
Also very useful in its coverage of Bible Christian women is Lloyd Jennifer M, ‘Women and the Shaping of British Methodism: Persistent Preachers, 1807-1907’, Manchester University Press (2010)
Colin Short should include his own books:
Durham Colliers and West Country Methodists: the story of the Bible Christian Mission in County Durham (1995) has a section on BC expansion.
O’Bryan’s Hymns: A New Look at the 1824 Bible Christian Hymn-book and its later revisions Oxford: WHS Publications 2006)
For BC Ministers see Oliver A Beckerlegge United Methodist Ministers and their Circuits London Epworth 1968 gives a complete list of ministers and their circuits.
A helpful list. I would have expected Billy Bray [possibly somewhere else]
I can add; Pyke, Rev. Richard, The Story of Shebbear College, 100pp, 1953.
There are items in the Proceeding of the Wesley Historical Society which can be accessed online including the following [I hope I have the refs right]:
Beckerlegge, Oliver A., ‘The Northern Bible Christians’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Volume XXXI, June 1957, pp 39-43.
Beckerlegge, Oliver A., ‘The Rule of William O’Bryan’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Volume XXXIII, June 1961, pp 30-35.
Beckerlegge, Oliver A., ‘The First Bible Christian Hymn-Book’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Volume XXXIV, June 1963, pp 34-36.
Shaw, Thomas, ‘The Historians of the Bible Christians’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Volume XXXV, June 1965, 39-41.
Beckerlegge, Oliver A., ‘The Bibliography of the Bible Christians’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Volume XXXV, pp 45-50, 74-76, 100-104, 128-29.
Beckerlegge, Oliver A., ‘The Bibliography of the Bible Christians; A Supplement’ (continued)’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Volume XXXVII, June 1969, pp 48-49.
James Thorne of Shebbear: a memoir compiled from his diary and letters by his son.
London: Bible Christian Bookroom, 1873
is also available online, by following this link
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89061874574
Thorne, James; Kinsman, Richard K; Robins Matthew and Prior, J. H. A Jubilee Memorial of Incidents in the Rise and Progress of the Bible Christian Connexion James Thorne (1865)
A digital copy of this text has just recently been made available through the hard work and effort of the staff of the Victoria University Library (Toronto) and can be accessed through their Library & Archives Digital Collections:
http://meta.library.vicu.utoronto.ca/RS/?r=4859
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