Minute book of the quarterly meetings of the Deptford Circuit, 1811-1838; volume of names and accounts of collections in the Deptford Circuit, 1812-1835, with enclosed section, elevation and plan of a chapel [Woolwich], 1835, and collection book for Mary Ann's Chapel, Deptford, 1847-1873.

Account book of the stewards of the First West London Circuit and the Second London Circuit, 1827-1837.

Minute book of the trustees meetings, 1861-1873, including Society Steward's accounts, 1890-1895, general chapel accounts, 1861-1895 and Christmas Tree and Entertainment Committee minutes, 1880.

Minute book of the trustees meetings, 1926-1934; correspondence and receipt concerning the minute book, 1927-1928 and register of baptisms, 1848-1932.

Minute book of the quarterly meetings of the Islington Circuit, First London District, 1883-1899, with enclosures including newspaper cuttings concerning the quarterly meetings, 1886 and the First London District Synod, 1898, printed notice concerning Islington Circuit Bazaar, 1880s and balance sheet of Islington Circuit Bazaar Account, 22 Sept 1897.

Registers of marriages for the following Methodist chapels or missions:

Albany Methodist Mission, 1954-1958

Brockley Wesleyan Chapel, 1914-1947

Brunswick Chapel Limehouse, 1900-1954

Calderwood Street Methodist Chapel (Woolwich Methodist Church from 1965), 1939-1977

Cassland Road Wesleyan Chapel, South Hackney, 1900-1940

Charlton Methodist Church, Woolwich Road, Charlton, 1919-1940

Dulwich Road Methodist Church, Herne Hill, 1950-1962

Emery Hall, Augusta Street, Poplar, 1918-1954

Green Lanes Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1906-1967

Grove Mission, Great Guildford Street, 1889-1913

Highbury Wesleyan Chapel, Drayton Park, Highbury, 1868-1929

High Street Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Hampstead, 1881-1933

Hither Green Wesleyan Chapel, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, 1913-1940

Hornsey Road Chapel, Hornsey Road, 1915-1940

Lambeth Wesleyan Chapel, Lambeth Road, 1916-1928

Liverpool Road Chapel, Liverpool Road, 1865-1953

Locksfield Wesleyan Chapel, Rodney Road, Walworth (Lockfeld Methodist Chapel, from 1939), 1926-1955

Lycett Memorial Methodist Chapel, White Horse Lane, 1955-1962

Methodist Chapel, Hackney Road, 1933-1942

Methodist Chapel, Poplar, 1946-1973

Methodist Chapel, St Johns Square, Clerkenwell, 1949-1952

Methodist Chapel (Welsh), City Road, 1933-1940

Methodist Chapel, Westbridge Road, Battersea, 1960-1967

Methodist Church, Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 1940-1942

Methodist Chapel, Grayshott Road, Lavender Hill, 1938-1939

Methodist Church, Herbert Road, Plumstead, 1935-1968

Methodist Church, Lynwood Road, Tooting, 1947-1967

Methodist Church, Waterloo Road, 1935-1941

Mildmay Park Chapel, Mildmay Park, 1862-1963

New Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, 1924-1943

Packington Street Methodist Chapel, 1947-1964

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chrisp Street, Bromley, 1907-1925

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Eglinton Hill, Plumstead, 1920-1935

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Furber Street, Hammersmith, 1916-1954

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kilburn Lane, 1921-1934

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Robert Street, Plumstead, 1900-1965

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1928-1940

Queensway Methodist Hall, Queens Road, 1902-1958

Roupell Park Wesleyan Church, West Norwood, 1907-1966

St Georges Hall and Schools, Old Kent Road, 1906-1955

St James Church, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, 1908-1966

Southwark Park Methodist Chapel, Bermondsey, 1937-1955

Sutherland Avenue Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1899-1977

The Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road, Mile End Old Town, 1936-1951

United Methodist Church, High Road, Lee, 1927-1971

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Broadway, Streatham, 1889-1966

United Methodist Church, Bruce Road, Bromley, 1925-1940

United Methodist Church, Charlotte Street, Caledonian Road, 1908-1940

United Methodist Church, Fentiman Road, Lambeth, 1932-1976

United Methodist Church, Paradise Road, Clapham, 1910-1935

United Methodist Church, Pembury Grove, Lower Clapton, 1918-1941

United Methodist Church, Walham Grove, Fulham, 1911-1971

Victoria Hall, Woolwich Road, East Greenwich, 1929-1969

Victoria Wesleyan Church, Barrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood, 1905- 1940

Waltham Green Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Fulham Road, 1904-1964

Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Holborn, 1899-1933 (UNFIT for access)

Wesleyan Chapel, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, 1924-1939

Wesleyan Chapel, Caledonian Road, Islington, 1867-1915 (UNFIT for access)

Wesleyan Chapel, Camden Street, Camden Town, 1931-1938

Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Sydenham (Dartmouth Road, Sydenham from 1938), 1918-1945

Wesleyan Chapel, London Street, Greenwich (Central Hall from 1906, West Greenwich Methodist Church from 1935), 1885-1969

Wesleyan Chapel, Wauxhall Walk, 1931-1957

Wesleyan Church, Rushey Green, Catford, 1897-1967

Wesleyan Chapel, Oakley Place, Old Kent Road (later St Georges Methodist Church), 1900-1981

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Brockley Rise, Forest Hill (Honor Oak Park Methodist Church from 1934), 1902-1974

Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, High Street, Plumstead, 1906-1957

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Danty Street, Hackney Wick, 1909-1935

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Denbigh Road, Westbourne Grove, 1911-1940

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kitto Road, Nunhead, 1901-1972

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Cross Road, 1903-1942

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, 1922-1964

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Avenue, Blackheath, 1866-1945

Wesley Hall, Streatham, 1924-1948

William Street, Methodist Chapel, Woolwich, (Calderwood Methodist Chapel from 1939), 1900-1939

Working Lads Institute, Whitechapel Road, 1905-1906

Methodist Church, Westhorne Avenue, Eltham, 1932-1981

Kingsway Hall, Lesley House, Kingsway, 1931-1980.

United Methodist Church, London District: treasurer's book, 1908-1933; Treasurer's balance sheets, marked 'Ex United Methodist Church London District', 1932-1934.

Register of marriages, 1914-1940.

Issues of Pathfinder, the magazine of the Poplar Wesleyan Mission, Methodist Church, 1932-1939.

First issue of Balham Wesleyan Methodist Church Welcome Magazine, December 1901.

Certificate of Mrs Jane Leach for £10 share in Finsbury Chapel, Finsbury Circus, 25 Dec 1826, including signature of Chapel founder and trustee Alexander Fletcher.

Parchment found under the memorial stone of Barbican Congregational Church, Hoxton, listing the name of the minister, deacons, New Building Committee, architects and builders, 1867.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Bermondsey, comprising registers of baptisms and marriages and Parochial Church Council (PCC) minutes.

Records of the parish of Saint John, Deptford, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; preachers' books; offertory registers; church services registers; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; and papers relating to the parish school.

Copies of extracts from 'One man's war', a memoir of his service with the Royal Armoured Corps and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1942-1946, written in 1981-1983. The extracts relate mainly to the practice of religion in the UK, India and Burma, 1942-1946, particularly the role of Christianity in army life.

Records of the headquarters of the Mothers' Union, Mary Sumner House, Westminster. The majority of the archive dates from when the Mothers' Union established a centralised structure in the 1890s, and contains a small number of papers from members who, although not always based at Mary Sumner House, played important roles within the MU (see MU/MSS/2). Although some files run into the 1990s, many of the series stop in the early 1980s, which coincides with a survey undertaken of the archive in Mary Sumner House (see MU/CO/1/127).

The foundation of the Mothers' Union is dated to the publication of the first membership card in 1876. The society was established by Mary Sumner, wife of the Rector of Old Alresford in the Diocese of Winchester, to defend the institution of marriage and promote Christian family life. This concern broadened over time to consider all factors affecting the morality of society, within the home and without.

Initially a network of meetings in parishes in the Diocese of Winchester, by the mid 1890s, the MU had established a centralised governing body in London, and had a number of branches overseas; from the early twentieth century, departments were established to deal with specialised tasks in the society's work. Although the society was primarily concerned with the role of the mother and the upbringing of children, married women without children and unmarried women were allowed to join as Associate Members from the outset. Throughout the twentieth century the MU addressed a variety of contemporary social issues (such as runaway children, drug dependence, venereal disease, housing conditions and birth control), but reserved particular efforts for campaigning against divorce and marriage breakdown.

Faced with a need to address a liberalisation in both society and the Church in the decades following the Second World War, the Mothers' Union revised its constitution in 1974 giving greater autonomy to the MU overseas and no longer excluding divorcées. Further reassessment took place in the early 1990s when the need to comply with charity regulations prompted a restructuring of the organisation.

Papers of Dr. Letitia Fairfield, reflecting her interests in social hygiene, in mental health, in medico-legal matters and criminology, mother and child health and welfare, and as a Roman Catholic convert, as well as her broader political and feminist convictions. There is also some biographical material.

The collection comprises correspondence, writings and administrative material relating to the Jenner family, particularly Dr. Edward Jenner (pioneer of smallpox vaccination) and the associated Black and Davies families, 1680-1877.

The material on Edward Jenner includes papers relating to organisations set up in the aftermath of his vaccination discoveries: the National Vaccine Establishment, the Royal Jennerian Society and the London Vaccine Institution.

Eighteenth-century copies of Jean Bodin's work: "De abditis rerum sublimium", book 6.

Papers of Vital Chaussegros on magic and occultism, 1814-[1845].

Records of the parish of Saint Michael and All Angels, Enfield, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage and church services; Parochial Church Council minutes and correspondence; brochures and orders of service; and curates' licences.

Records of the parish of Saint Anne, Brondesbury, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Kilburn, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Kilburn Square, comprising registers of baptisms, registers of marriages and register of confirmations.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Baptist, Greenhill, Harrow, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriages, confirmations and church services; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes; Building Committee minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to staff; papers relating to the maintenance of the church buildings and fittings including faculties; papers relating to properties and land; papers relating to social events and clubs; notices, orders of service, newspaper cuttings and programmes.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, West Twyford, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmation and church services; correspondence and working papers of the incumbents; papers regarding parish missions; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church and church hall; Parochial Church Council minutes, correspondence, reports and papers; financial records; papers of the Mothers' Union and historical notes.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Willesden, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriages, confirmations and church services; orders of service; papers relating to parish mergers; photographs of the church, clergy and other staff, and church activities; papers regarding the maintenance of church buildings; Vestry meeting minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; other Committee minutes; financial accounts; minutes of School Managers and School Governors; papers relating to the school including school building maintenance, inspection reports, correspondence, photographs and staffing; papers of church societies and clubs; parish magazines; newspaper cuttings; and histories.

Records of the parish of Saint Francis of Assisi, Gladstone Park, Willesden, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; photographs of the church, clergy and church activities; papers relating to the creation of the parish; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church and hall; Vestry and Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; correspondence of the Parochial Church Council Secretary; financial accounts; papers regarding church clubs and societies; parish magazines; news cuttings, pamphlets, postcards and other printed items.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Ealing, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and church services; papers of the incumbent relating to the work of the clergy; papers regarding church personnel; parish boundaries; papers regarding the construction and maintenance of church buildings and the churchyard; churchwardens' papers; records relating to parish administration and finance, charities, societies and clubs; and printed material.

The collection includes four items relating to the temporary iron church: a baptism register, 1882-93 (DRO/101/1), a preacher's book, 1882-93 (DRO/101/16), vestry minutes, 1882-93 (DRO/101/134) and churchwardens' accounts, 1889-93 (DRO/101/131). The rest, and bulk of the collection, relates to the permanent church of St. Peter. Of particular note are three scrapbooks (DRO/101/249-251), compiled by the parish after 1989, of various important items relating to the history of the parish.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Northfields, comprising a register of baptisms and five registers of marriages.

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Temple Fortune, Hendon, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, and church services; papers relating to the construction of the church including plans; faculties and inventories relating to church fixtures and fittings; papers relating to the maintenance of the church hall and vicarage; minutes of Vestry, Parochial Church Council and other Committee meetings; Social Society papers; parish magazines and brochures.

Records of the parish of Saint John, Southall, Ealing, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials; banns of marriage, confirmations, and church services; preacher's books; registers of graves; Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' minutes and financial papers; plans of the church hall; maps of the parish; papers relating to church property; faculties relating to church fixtures and fittings; printed items including brochures, orders of service, programmes, postcards and histories; photographs of the church building and church services.

Records of the parish of the Ascension, Hanger Hill, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; and minute books of the Vestry and Parochial Church Council.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Uxbridge, including baptism registers (1865-1947), marriage registers (1865-1958), burial registers (1867-1896), banns of marriage registers (1914-1993), service registers, orders of services, Vestry Minutes, Parochial Church Council Minutes, parish magazines, electoral rolls, annual accounts, ledgers, account books of fees, plans of church, and specification of works.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Barnet, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, and confirmations; registers of church services; working papers of the incumbent; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; papers of the Sunday School; magazines, publications, newspaper cuttings, historical notes and photographs; papers relating to tithes, glebes and terriers; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings and fittings, including faculties, correspondence, plans, specifications and architect's reports; and plans of the churchyard.

Records of the parish of All Saints, Harrow, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minute books; financial accounts; papers of Robinson's Charity; papers of Harrow Weald Old Schools; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Harrow Weald, comprising register of banns of marriages; registers of church services; and correspondence regarding the maintenance of the Church, Hall and Parsonage.

Records of the parish of St John the Baptist, Hillingdon, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmations and services. Also includes cash books and ledgers.

Records of the parish of Saint George, Southall, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; working papers of the incumbent; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to the benefice; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings and fittings, including faculties and inventories; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; and historical notes.

Records of the parish of St Michael and All Angels, Hillside, Willesden, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriages and church services; financial accounts; and Parochial Church Council minutes.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Willesden, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriages, church services and preachers; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings; and photographs of the church. Also registers of baptisms for Willesden General Hospital.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Brondesbury, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, and church services; preacher's books; financial accounts and poster.

Records of the parish of Saint Laurence, Brondesbury, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; and Annual Parochial Church Meeting minutes.

Records of the parish of Saint John, Northfields, Ealing, consisting of baptism registers 1876-1958, marriage registers 1876-1975, banns of marriages 1939-1987 and confirmation registers 1940-1947; and church service registers 1973-1990.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Northwood, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Finance Committee minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of church buildings and fittings, including plans and faculties; papers relating to church charities, clubs and societies; papers relating to Northwood School and papers relating to parish boundaries.

Records of the parish of Saint James, Alperton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, and banns of marriage; registers of church services; papers regarding the construction of the church and vicarage; faculties for the maintenance of church fittings; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to church societies and clubs; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Mellitus, Hanwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; working papers of the incumbent; correspondence; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; papers relating to the Sunday School; parish magazines and photograph of the exterior of the church.

Records of the parish of Saint Mark, Hanwell, including baptism registers (1880-1980), marriage registers (1919-1979), banns of marriage registers (1940-1978), confirmation registers (1940-1979), and church service registers.

Records of the parish of St Andrew, Alexandra Park, Haringey, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, and church services.

Records of the parish of Saint Saviour, Alexandra Park, Haringey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; diary of church events; inventories of church contents, with photographs; papers and legal documents relating to church properties; correspondence; minutes of Churchwardens' meetings; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of other Committees; parish magazines and bulletins; booklets; newspaper cuttings; and photographs of the church.