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Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Religions

Local

Archives and Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

  • Cheesewring Methodist Church: visitor book 1956-1978 (MRNH/210)
  • Crows-an-Wra Wesleyan Chapel, St Buryan: Sunday School record books 1877-1933 (MRWP/224-226)

Bath Record Office

  • Dunn and Boyd families of Bath: family papers, particularly rel to Rev James Dunn (1814-1919) incl corresp, scrapbooks and photographs c1858-1930 (1260)
  • Camerton Voluntary Controlled Church School, Bath: logbooks and admission registers 1866-1999 (1213)

Berkshire Record Office

  • John Melville Guilding (1830-1898), clergyman and antiquary: papers incl collected material c1829-1899 (D/EX2556)

Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service

  • Birmingham Diocese: additional records 2011-2017 (BDR Additional (2018/036))
  • Carrs Lane Church, Birmingham: additional records 1820-2015 (CC 1 Additional (2018/069))
  • Fircroft College: additional records 20th cent (MS 2797 Additional (2018/025))
  • Warwickshire Monthly Meeting (Central England Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends): photographs of staff and students at Sibford Summer School gatherings 1960-1961 (SF Additional (2018/031))
  • Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre: student register (1966-85), student records, papers rel to Quakers in First World War, Mingana microfiche, and additional records 20th-21st cent (MS 4937)

Bristol Archives

  • Robert Barclay (1833-1876), Quaker historian: sermons with a brief memoir 1878 (38538/Am/Per/2/12)

Cambridgeshire Archives

  • Cambridge Ecumenical Council: records 1991-2016 (R118/065)

Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library

  • Joseph Weston Poole (1909-1989), Precentor of Canterbury Cathedral: corresp and papers rel to the Cathedral and Choir during the Second World War c1930-1950 (U573)
  • The Lyghfield Bible: medieval illuminated Bible 1250-1300 (DCc/AddMs/392)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

  • St Mary's German Lutheran Church of the Savoy, Westminster: records rel to the history of the church, services, the work of the clergy and parish, the council, the Student Centre and publicity material 1925-2016 (2953)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

  • Thornthwaite cum Braithwaite with Newlands Parish: candlemas records of charity disbursements to the poor and register of services for St Herbert 1653-2005 (PR 163)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal

  • Kendal Ecumenical Group: papers incl minutes and constitution 1996-2016 (WDSO 406)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Samuel Chambers Furmston (c1849-1916), Vicar of Blackwell, Derbyshire: papers incl corresp and accounts 1879-1916 (D1034)
  • Samuel Chambers Furmston (1849-1916), Vicar of Blackwell, Derbyshire: personal and family papers incl travellog of a visit to Paris (1865), photographs and photograph albums, notebooks, newspaper cuttings and family tree 1865-1958 (D8766)
  • All Saints, Curbar parish: records incl registers, corresp, minutes, notices, plans, ephemera 1868-2014 (D2114)
  • Boulton Lane Baptist Church, Derby: records incl minutes, Church attendance book, account book, plans and corresp 1956-2013 (D8182)
  • Derby Diocesan Association of Church Bellringers: records incl minutes, corresp, photographs, annual reports and misc papers 1858-2010 (D3422)
  • Fritchley Congregational Church: records incl baptism register, minute book, accounts 1840-1975 (D8161)
  • Turnditch Parish: records incl registers, Overseers' accounts, churchwarden's accounts c1720-1912 (D2645)

Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Squire family of Northlew: family papers rel to the Squire family of Cruft, Bible Christian Methodists 19th-20th cent (ZAOX; acc D2018/41)
  • John Nelmes (fl 1901-2000), photographer: colour photographic prints of rural parish churches 20th cent (ZAQV; acc D2018/174)
  • Vinegar Bible published by John Baskett 1717 (333A; acc D2018/159)

Dorset History Centre

  • Bagber School: minutes, accounts, corresp and church services log 1900-1968 (S-364)
  • British and Foreign Bible Society: minute book 1932-1965 (D-3032)
  • Morcombelake and Charmouth United Reformed Church: church members, photographs, minutes and accounts 1934-2016 (NP-47)

Dudley Archives and Local History Service

  • Black Country Unitarians: deeds and corresp re Old Meeting House, Dudley 1703-2017 (N/U/DU/OMH)

East Sussex Record Office

  • St John the Baptist Catholic Church, Brighton: records c1870-1990 (ACC 13044)

Flintshire Record Office

  • Llewelyn Kendrick (fl 1908-1965), clergyman, of Treuddyn: papers incl diaries 1908-1965 (AN5205)

Glasgow City Archives

  • Christian Mission Society, Glasgow: records incl minutes, accounts, photographs, corresp 19th-20th cent (TD2052)

Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

  • Kenchester with Bridge Sollers and Bishopstone Mothers' Union: records 1950-1983 (DC28)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Rev Canon Terence Wenham (1900-1999): papers rel to Welwyn Church 1900-1999 (6037)

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

  • Terry family of Hull: papers incl corresp with Rev James Stillingfleet, Rector of Hotham, and Elizabeth and Ann Avison c1700-1866 (C DFTF)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Harold Lockley (1960-1980), Archdeacon of Loughborough: personal and official corresp, articles and reviews, writings and sermons c1960-1989 (DE9699)
  • Guild of St Peter, Leicester branch: records incl newsletters, photographs, manuals, minutes and notes c1917-2003 (DE9618)
  • Knossington parish: note of money collected in response to a church brief for the repair of Colliton Haven, Durham 1584 (DE9605)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Kenneth Street (fl 1944-1985), rector at Navenby and Aslackby: notebooks and diaries 1944-1985 (MISC DON 2038)

Liverpool Record Office

  • P Oulton (fl 2018), photographer: digital photographs of Liverpool churches 2018 (ACC 7148)
  • Christ the King Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool: 50th Anniversary oral history recordings 2017 (ACC 7128)
  • Hamlet Baptist Church: registers 1957-2012 (C151)
  • Liverpool St Gabriel parish: records 1878-2014 (283 GAB)
  • Liverpool Catholic Ramblers Association: minutes, accounts, photographs and newsletters 1946-2017 (796 RCR)
  • St Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, Dingle: photographs, history and records 1857-1971 (282 MAL)
  • Toxteth St Bede's parish,: architect's drawings 1921 (283 BED)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • Evangelische Gemeinden London-Ost: financial records, corresp and printed material 1952-2012 (B18/045)
  • Federation of Zionist Youth: magazines, newsletters and other publications, DVDs and videos 1931-2010 (B18/124)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  • Miles Platting Baptist Mission: minute books, histories and abstract of title of Mr James Marshall Beckett to a plot of land fronting Oldham Road, Miles Platting 1871-1994 (2018/74)

Norfolk Record Office

  • James Appleton (1887-1956), clergyman, rector of Stibbard: papers rel to Revd J Appleton 1856-2006 (ACC 2018/115)
  • William George Softley (1870-1949), Methodist minister: diaries 1893-1944 (ACC 2017/222)
  • Bishop of Norwich: parish files c1975-2014 (ACC 2018/59)
  • Community of All Hallows: papers rel to St Michaels' Home penitentiary for rescued women, the convent, Old Girl Association, St Augustine's lodge and Little Portion c1854-2010 (ACC 2018/37)
  • Drayton parish: church and benefice papers incl school logbooks of Drayton CofE Junior School 1838-2012 (ACC 2018/17)
  • East Carleton parish: tithe map 1850 (PD 207)
  • Framingham Earl parish: minutes and financial records 1939-1996 (ACC 2017/175)
  • Ingworth parish: Parochial Church Council, vestry minutes and financial records incl churchwardens' accounts 1878-2017 (PD 521)
  • King's Lynn St Margaret with St Nicholas parish: estate records rel to St Nicholas Chapel 1961-1990 (ACC 2018/66)
  • North Norfolk Methodist Circuit: Hindolveston chapel minutes incl photographs (1892-2009), class book (1941), circuit plans for East Dereham and North Norfolk and East Suffolk c1801-1900 (ACC 2018/112)
  • Norwich Cathedral Dean and Chapter: correspondence rel to the Cathedral Library 2000-2003 (ACC 2018/125)

North Devon Record Office (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Nathaniel John Braset Hole (1817-1886), vicar of Broadwoodkelly: account books 1857-1886 (B1371)
  • West Down parish: Glebe Terrier 1872 (3255A)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

  • St Andrews Methodist Church, Cleethorpes: records rel to the church in Cleethorpes and Grimsby 1904-1979 (1465; 2018/013)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Woodborough terrier 1660 (9304)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Farringdon Congregational Church: records incl corresp, accounts, papers rel to other congregational chapels and deeds c1840-1999 (Acc 6647; Acc 6659)

Peterborough Archives

  • Bharat Hindu Samaj: papers incl financial 1990-2017 (2018/43)
  • Trinity Congregational Church, Peterborough: minute books, financial records, membership records, church magazines 1896-1983 (2018/7)

Sandwell Community History and Archives Service

  • Abbey Churches Together: minute books, newsletters, accounts and corresp 1988-2002 (2018/11R)
  • Newton Road United Reform Church: records incl registers, minute books, accounts, documents, building plans and photographs 1919-2016 (2018/33)

Sheffield City Archives

  • Sheffield Diocese Deaf Church: records incl minutes 1983-1990 (DIOC)

Shropshire Archives

  • Christian Socialists Movement, Shrewsbury and Telford Branch: minutes and group photograph 1989-1995 (9407)
  • Gritt Methodist Chapel, Shelve: misc papers incl sunday school register, accounts, cash books and minutes 1910-2010 (9513)
  • Newport Wesleyan Methodist Circuit: records 19th-21st cent (9452)
  • Shropshire and Marches Methodist Circuit: papers incl baptism register, closed chapels, minutes and accounts 20th-21st cent (9524)
  • Shropshire and Marches Methodist Circuit: deeds and papers rel to various chapels within the circuit 1816-2002 (9412)
  • Union Free Church Wellington: baptism, dedication register, plans, accounts, corresp and papers 1900-2016 (9451)
  • Upton Magna parish: papers incl sunday school register, Wrockwardine Deanery map and information 20th cent (9486)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Quest Christian Community, Glastonbury: records 1989-2006 (A/ENI)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office

  • Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford: diaries of Lady Charlotte Bridgeman, historical notebooks of Rev George TO Bridgeman c1847-1889 (7624)
  • Lichfield Diocese: faculty files and archdeacons' certificates 2000-2017 (B/C/12)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

  • R Cobbold (1797-1877), clergyman, parish church Wortham: sermon preached on the death of John Snelling Esq (d1870) 1870 (HD4148)
  • Eastern Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches: copy of constitution and minutes 1987-2016 (FK4/3)

Surrey History Centre

  • Paula Gerrard (fl 2000-2018), local historian: papers incl material collected during the writing of 'St Saviour's Valley End 150 years. A history of a church, a parish and its people', 2017 c1801-2018 (Z/697)
  • Alfred Turner (fl 1845-1871), congregationalist minister of Gomshall: diary 1845-1871 (1565)
  • Edward Henry Williams (1824-1877), parish clerk of St Mary the Virgin, Ewell: notebook and accounts 1855-1887 (9887)
  • Guildford Diocese Mothers' Union: scrapbook compiled by Daphne Bevis 1987-1994 (9954)

Tameside Local Studies and Archives

  • Fairfield Moravian Settlement: slide images of Ashton Market, Christ Church, Tulip Sunday, Carnival and Moravian Settlement c1973 (Acc 4576)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • Photographs of exterior Wyken Parish Church, taken by Sydney Pitcher, specialist photographer c1920-1929 (PH 1339)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

  • Mothers Union, Bradford Diocese: records incl guide to the work of the diocesan secretary, planning documents, material rel to closed branches, deaneries, wave of prayer, pageant and publication finance committee, AGM minutes, notices regarding closure, programme and date cards c1930-2015 (3D97)
  • West Yorkshire Methodist Church Association of Youth Clubs: records incl minutes 1969-1989 (WYB781)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

  • Brighouse Council of Churches, Brighouse: records incl minutes and corresp 1966-1984 (WYC:1893)
  • Wainsgate Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge: records incl registers 1748-1989 (WYC:1897)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

  • Concord-Leeds Interfaith Fellowship: records c1970-2016 (WYL2561)
  • Cross Gates Methodist Church: records incl registers and minutes 1908-1994 (WYL2572)
  • St George Crypt, Leeds: records incl minutes 2005-2013 (WYL5029)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

  • St Andrew's Church: records incl minute book 1897-2010 (WYW1898)
  • Greetland and West Vale St Thomas: records incl banns of marriage, registers of marriage for St John's the Evangilist and St Thomas, electoral rolls, minutes, photographs, parish accounts, finance information and corresp 1854-1976 (WDP116)
  • Central Yorkshire Area Meeting Society of Friends: records incl minutes 1915-2003 (WYW1892)

Wigan Archives and Local Studies

  • Golborne Baptist Church: records 20th cent (Acc. 2018/20)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Castle Combe Congregational Church: records incl minutes, registers and cradle roll register 1743-2009 (1951A)

Wolverhampton City Archives

  • SS Mary and John's Catholic Church Youth Club, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton: minute books, accounts, scrapbook, newsletters, other items 1962-1974 (D-SO-82)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Lant Carpenter (1780-1840), Unitarian minister: 'Essay on the Association of Ideas, Glasgow College' 1801 (Add MS 89322)
  • William Hart Coleridge (1789-1849), Bishop of Barbados: papers incl corresp rel to the bishopric in Barbados 1820-1840 (Add MS 89334)
  • Peter Sterry (1613-1672), independent theologian and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell: ‘Severall discours’s of Mr Peter Sterry’ c1650-1672 (Add MS 89319)
  • Luttrell Wynne (1739-1814), rector of St Erne: journals recording a tour across northern England and Scotland, incl sketches 1772 (Add MS 89333)
  • Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Southwark Hours'), with illumination attributed to the 'Ravenelle Master' c1390-1410 (Add MS 89309)

Island Archives, Guernsey

  • Very Rev John Arthur (b1949), Guille, Dean of Southall Cathedral, rector of St Andrew's, Jersey: personal papers 20th-21st cent (AQ 1562)

Jersey Archive

  • Henry Hope Buswell (fl 1930-1949), vicar of St Matthew's Church, Jersey: sermons and writings c1930-1949 (JA/3257)
  • Jersey Catholic Womens League: minutes 1949-1953 (JA/3354)

Manx National Heritage Library & Archives

  • St Thomas Parish, Douglas: records incl registers, minutes, deeds, correspondence 1850-2010 (MS 14508)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • Robert James Dundas (1832-1904), Anglican clergyman: personal papers 1859-1866 (Acc. 13929)

Science Museum Library and Archives

  • Joseph Clement (1779-1844), engineer: notebook containing notes to form a credo as a statement of intent and moral compass 1793-1798 (MS/1935)

Special

Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide

  • John Edward Church (1899-1989), medical missionary in East Africa, evangelical leader: personal and family papers, including those of his wife Dr Decima Church; sound recordings and digital copies of photographs 1898-1996 (JEC)

Lambeth Palace Library

  • MS copy of 'Prayers of Intercession for their Use who mourn in Secret for the Publick Calamities of this nation' by John Hewitt (1614-1658) c1659 (MS 1547)

Pusey House Library

  • Federation of Catholic Priests, Exeter branch: accounts and constitution c1953-2015 (2018/3)

Religious Society of Friends Library

  • Armfield family of London: family papers and records of South Place Temperance Hotel 1850-1939 (MSS 1035)
  • Alison Kelly (c 1900-2000), Quaker: personal papers 1900-2000 (2018A14)

Representative Church Body Library

  • Frederick Rothwell Bolton (1908-1987), Church of Ireland priest, Dean of Leighlin: sermons, corresp, research notes and drafts 1955-1983 (MS 1064)
  • Alan Alexander Buchanan (1907-1984), Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland): sermons, obituaries, biographical note c1940-1977 (MS 1085)

University

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

  • Asphodel P Long (1921-2005), author and feminist theologian: papers collected by the Feminist Archive South c1921-2005 (DM2767)
  • Cecil Andrew Plaxton (1902-1993), Archdeacon of Wiltshire: ms notebooks and slides c1962-1998 (DM2750)

Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

  • Garth Fowden (b1953), historian: photographic slides of Middle Eastern religious sites 20th cent (MS Add.10266)

Dundee University Archive, Records Management and Museum Services

  • Grant-Robinson family of Perth: family and Baptist faith papers incl papers of Peter Grant, Gaelic hymn writer and Baptist preacher, papers of John Robinson, missionary in Calcutta, and John Alexander Grant-Robinson, Minister at Perth Baptist Church 19th-20th cent (MS 432)

Durham University Library, Special Collections

  • Frank A J Utting (1905-1989), teacher and Methodist minister: Foruah Bay, Sierra Leone, photo album 1927-1946 (Add Ms 2061)
  • Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre: English community: records of an order of Catholic nuns in Belgium and then England, running New Hall School 1642-2010 (CHS)

London University: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

  • Gladys Aylward (1902-1970), missionary: reel to reel recording of Aylward discussing her life and work at YMCA, Kowloon, Hong Kong 1968 (MS 381327)
  • Evan Evans Bryant, (1878-1937), missionary: glass lantern slides depicting scenery and life and work of Bryant as a missionary in northern China c1910-1930 (MS 381330)

Manchester University: University of Manchester Library

  • Charles Frederick Hogg (1859-1943), Brethren missionary: letters written during missionary trip to India 1923-1960 (CFH)
  • Eric Hogg, fl 1920s, Brethren missionary: photograph album rel to construction of Christian radio station in Iceland 1920-1929 (CFH)
  • Frederick Fyvie Bruce, (1910-1990), bible scholar and evangelical Christian: papers incl corresp and research notes rel to Bruce 1948-2014 (FBP)

Oxford University: Regent's Park College, Angus Library and Archive

  • Michael Ian Bochenski (b1953), Baptist minister, College head and writer: papers rel to pastorates, presidency of Baptist Union of Great Britain, and rectorship of Warsaw Baptist Theological Seminary 1978-2018 (Acc 462)
  • Harcourt Samuel (fl 1925-1994), Baptist minister, Secretary of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance: notebooks of sermons, register of sermons c1948-1994 (Acc 467)
  • Eric Peter Sharpe (1915-1993), Baptist minister and musicologist: sermon notes, hymnological material c1960-1989 (Acc 454)
  • Helen Walley (1900-1986), Baptist missionary: family and other corresp; misc papers; photographs c1917-2018 (BMS Acc 327)
  • Abingdon Baptist Church: additional papers and corresp: church minutes, accounts, reports, secretary's corresp; Youth Club materials; papers rel to redevelopment of manse c1876-2000 (Acc 457)
  • Baptist Missionary Society: papers and corresp incl minutes of General Committee 1995–1998; minutes of St Andrews Hall and International Mission Centre, Birmingham 1973–2000; resource materials from Communications Department 1988–2008. Also incl corresp and papers rel to BMS activity in the Congo 1886-1973; report on deputation to South America 1909–1910. 1886-2008 (BMS Acc. 319, BMS Acc. 325)

University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

  • James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), Bishop of Madras: additional diaries with related personal papers c1909-1999 (DA29)

Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

  • Social Workers' Christian Fellowship: minutes, files, publications and sound recording 1980-2010 (1250)