Dr Eryn White


BA, PhD (Wales) Photograph of Dr Eryn White.

Contact

Email: erw@aber.ac.uk
Office: B16
Phone: 2843

Profile

Dr Eryn White BA, PhD (Wales) is interested in early modern Welsh history in general, with special research interests in religion, literacy, print culture, women and society in 18th-century Wales. Her most recent publication is a study of aspects of the impact of the Welsh Bible on piety, literacy and culture. She has studied various aspects of the Methodist Revival in Wales, including its appeal, the role of women, questions of identity, the relation to the Welsh language and to education and the attitude to consumerism. She is currently working on a collaborative volume on the early history of Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales and plans further work on women and religion in eighteenth-century Wales.

Teaching Areas

Dr White teaches widely from the First Year core Welsh History modules through to Masters courses and PhD supervision, including undergraduate Dissertations and Welsh History option modules for 2nd and 3rd year students.

Research

2009

  • 'The Bible, Print and Nonconformity in Wales 1750-1850', Dissent and the Bible Conference, Centre for Dissenting Studies, London, 23 May 2009.
  • 'Women, work and worship in the Trefeca 'Family' 1752-1773', Gender, Religion and Industry Conference, Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, 16-18 June 2009.

2008

  • 'Coroners in Eighteenth-century Wales', Society of Medical History Wales, Annual Conference, Aberystwyth, 12 April 2008.

2007

  • 'Peter Williams a'r Beibl Cymraeg', Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Annual Lecture , Aberystwyth, 14 March 2007.
  • 'Piety, Charity and Consumption in Eighteenth-century Wales', Day School, Centre for the Advanced Study of Religion in Wales, Aberystwyth, 14 July 2007.
  • 'No name but Christian': forging the identities of eighteenth-century Welsh and English Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodism', conference, 'Methodist Identities: Past, Present and Future', Cambridge, 28-30 August 2007.

2006

  • 'I will once more shake the heavens': The 1762 Revival in Wales', Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference, 'Revival and Resurgence in Christian History', Cardiff, 19-22 July 2006.

2005

  • 'Piety, Education and Early Welsh Methodism', Research Seminar, Department of Religious and Islamic Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter, 4 April 2005.
  • 'Cerrig Milltir ar y Ffordd Fethodistaidd' [Milestones on the Methodist Way], 'Milestones', International Conference, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, June 2005.
  • 'Spare an hour or two for Dolanog': the legacy of Ann Griffiths', Powysland Club, 24 September 2005.

2004

  • 'Methodistiaid Cymreig y ddeunawfed ganrif a'u byd' [Eighteenth-century Welsh Methodists and their world], Department of Extra Mural Studies and School of History and Archaeology, University of Wales Cardiff, Conference: 'Aspects of Religion and Society', 22 May 2004
  • 'Adfywiad ac Adnewyddiad ymhlith Methodistiaid Cynnar y Ddeunawfed Ganrif' [Revival and Renewal among Eighteenth-century Methodists], International Conference on 'Revival, Renewal and the Holy Spirit', UW Bangor, 22-26 June 2004.
  • 'Merched yn Llythyron Trefeca' [Women in the Trevecka Letters], University of Wales Guild of Graduates Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Culture Section Annual Conference, Plenary Session, Gregynog, 4 July 2004.
  • 'The Eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival and Welsh Identity', British Evangelical Identities International Conference, King's College, London, 28-31 July 2004.

2003

  • 'Arwyr y Diwygiad Mawr/The Heroes of the Methodist Revival', Darlith Goffa'r Diwygiad/The Revival Commemorative Lecture, Historical Society of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, 7, 14, 21 May 2003.
  • 'Methodism Divided: Calvinistic Methodism 1750-1763', International Conference: Bishop Burgess and His World, UW Lampeter, 27-9 June 2003.

2001

  • 'Baptisms, Burials and Brawls: Church and community in eighteenth-century Wales', International conference on Popular culture and Religion, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 12-14 July 2001.
  • 'Merched, Crefydd a Llythrennedd yng Nghymru'r Ddeunawfed ganrif' [Women, Religion and Literacy in Eighteenth-century Wales], Plenary session, International conference on Women's Writing and the Celtic Fringe, UW Lampeter, 24-26 August 2001.

2000

  • 'Women, Religion and Education in Eighteenth-century Wales', North American Association for Welsh Culture and History International Conference, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, 22-24 June 2000.

Editorial board membership etc

  • Editorial board member, Studies in Welsh History, University of Wales Press.
  • Editorial board member, Wesley and Methodist Studies
  • Editor of Ceredigion, the journal of the Ceredigion Historical Society

Staff Publications

2009

  • 'Dylanwad y Beibl yng Nghymru yn y Cyfnod Modern Cynnar' ['The Influence of the Bible in Early Modern Wales'] in Cof Cenedl , ed. Geraint H. Jenkins (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 2009).
  • 'The Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Revival and Welsh Identity' in Mark Smith (ed.), British Evangelical Identities Past and Present Volume I (Milton Keynes, Paternoster Press, 2009), pp. 85-96.
  • 'Revival and Renewal amongst the eighteenth-century Welsh Methodists', in Dyfed Wyn Roberts (ed.), Revival Renewal and the Holy Spirit (Milton Keynes, Paternoster Press, 2009), pp. 1-12.
  • 'Baptism, Burial and Brawls: Church and Community in Mid-eighteenth Century Wales', in J. Allen and R. C. Allen (eds), Faith of our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 39-51.
  • 'Merched, Methodistiaeth a llythrennedd yng Nghymru'r ddeunawfed ganrif', Cylchgrawn hanes (Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd/Journal of the Historical Society of the Presbyterian Church of Wales), 33 (2009)

2008

  • 'Peter Williams a'r Beibl Cymraeg' ['Peter Williams and the Welsh Bible'], Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, new series, 14 (2008), 58-72.
  • ''I will once more shake the heavens': The 1762 Revival in Wales', Revival and Resurgence in Christian History: Studies in Church History, eds K. Cooper and J. Gregory, 44 (2008), pp. 154-63.

2007

  • 'Piety and Charity in Eighteenth-century Wales', The Welsh Journal of Religious History, 2 (2007), 45-58.
  • The Welsh Bible (Stroud, 2007), pp. 176.
  • 'The Material World, Moderation and Methodism in Eighteenth-century Wales' Welsh History Review, 23 (2007), pp. 44-64.
  • 'A Breach in God's House': The Division in Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 1750-63' in Nigel Yates (ed.), Bishop Burgess and His World: Culture, Religion and Society in Britain, Europe and North America in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (University of Wales Press, 2007), pp. 85-102.

2004

  • With B. S. Schlenther, Calendar of the Trevecka Letters (National Library of Wales, 2004), pp. xii + 540.
  • 'A 'Poor, Benighted Church'?: Church and Society in mid-eighteenth-century Wales' in G. H. Jenkins and Rees Davies (eds), From Medieval to Modern Wales: Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths (University of Wales Press, 2004), pp. 123-41
  • 'The Heroes of the Methodist Revival', Journal of the Historical Society of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, 28 (2004), pp. 11-22.

2002

  • With Richard Suggett, 'Language, Literacy and Aspects of Identity in Early Modern Wales' in Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf (eds), The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850, (Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 52-83.

2001

  • 'The People Called Methodists': Early Welsh Methodism and the Question of Identity', Journal of Welsh Religious History (new series), 1 (2001), pp. 1-14.

2000

  • 'Women, Religion and Education in Eighteenth-century Wales' in M. Roberts and S. Clarke (eds), Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales (University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 210-33.

1999

  • 'Women in the Early Methodist Societies in Wales', Journal of Welsh Religious History, 7 (1999), pp. 95-108.

1997

  • 'Myrdd o Wragedd': Merched a'r Diwygiad Methodistaidd' [Women and the Methodist Revival], Llên Cymru, 20 (1997), pp. 62-74.
  • 'The Established Church, Dissent and the Welsh Language c.1660-1811' in G. H. Jenkins (ed.), The Welsh Language before the Industrial Revolution (University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 235-87.
  • 'Popular Schooling and the Welsh Language 1650-1800' in G. H. Jenkins (ed.), The Welsh Language before the Industrial Revolution (University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 317-41.
  • With G. H. Jenkins and Richard Suggett, 'The Welsh Language in Early Modern Wales' in G. H. Jenkins (ed.), The Welsh Language before the Industrial Revolution (University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 45-122.
  • 'Yr Eglwys Sefydledig, Anghydffurfiaeth a'r Iaith Gymraeg, c.1660-1811' in G. H. Jenkins (ed.), Y Gymraeg yn ei Disgleirdeb: Yr Iaith Gymraeg cyn y Chwyldro Diwydiannol (University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 233-85.
  • 'Addysg Boblogaidd a'r Iaith Gymraeg 1650-1800' in G. H. Jenkins (ed.), Y Gymraeg yn ei Disgleirdeb (University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 315-38.
  • With G. H. Jenkins and Richard Suggett, 'Yr Iaith Gymraeg yn y Gymru Fodern Gynnar' in G. H. Jenkins (ed.), Y Gymraeg yn ei Disgleirdeb (University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 45-119.

1996

  • 'The World, the Flesh and the Devil' and the Early Methodist Societies of south-west Wales', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1996), pp. 45-61.

1995

  • Praidd Bach y Bugail Mawr: Seiadau Methodistaidd De-orllewin Cymru 1737-1750 (Llandysul, 1995), pp. xi + 243.