Yes... but the transformative effectives of C18 Revivalism and the centrality of Calvinistic Methodism to that should, perhaps, not be overstated. The Wales of the years following 1735 wasn't yet the Wales of 1851. C19 hagiography of C18 Methodist leaders ... 1/ https://twitter.com/AddoldaiCymru/status/1309406054275600384

... has a lot to answer for in this. There is no denying that figures like Whitefield, Rowland, Harris or Williams had an important role in shaking things up, but there were also preachers like Edmund Jones among older Nonconformist groups. Jones was certainly mindful ... 2/

of the influence of Methodist leaders like Harris, especially as he invited him to preach in Pontypool, but he also very much saw his revivalism as a continuation of the spirit of the preachers sent by the Act for the Better Propagation of the Gospel in Wales. Also, there ... 3/

... was a lot going on in the Established Church (of which Welsh Calvinistic Methodism was still a part in C18), that had just as much of an effect as Rowlands' preaching or Williams' hymns. Pluralism, the penury of curates, absentee bishops, and the language of the church... 4/

...all had an effect on the Church's popularity, and the transformation of the socio-economic context in which communities and congregations existed probably had an even bigger effect. It's also important to remember that for all traditional Welsh historiography's focus on ... 5/

... the Great Awakening, Nonconformists and Methodists (who, again, were not Nonconformists) were still very much in the minority until well into the C19 when much of Welsh society was radically different from that of a century earlier. 6/6