Records of the parish of Saint Stephen, Coleman Street, City of London. The collection includes the so-called 'Vellum Book', a record book chiefly of church property dating from 1466 (Ms 4456). The main archive dates from the 15th century and includes churchwardens' accounts from 1486, parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns) from 1538, poor rate and tithe rate assessments from 1592 and vestry minutes from 1622.

Records of the parish of Saint Vedast, Foster Lane, Church of England, including parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials), churchwardens' accounts, vestry minutes, rate assessments and other administrative papers of the parishes.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Battersea, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; register of confirmations; registers of church services; Churchwardens' financial accounts; and financial accounts of the General Purposes Fund, Sick and Poor Fund, and the Sunday School and Adolescents Fund.

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Clapham Common, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns of marriages; registers of church services; papers relating to the work of the clergy; records of church personnel; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to the benefice; records regarding the maintenance of church buildings including the church hall; parish administrative records including Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; and printed material including parish magazines. Several of these records and registers relate to Saint Matthew, Lavender Hill.

Records of the parish of Saint Bartholomew, Battersea, comprising registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Battersea, comprising registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.

Records of the parish of Saint John, Battersea, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations, parishioners and church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; parish school log books; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Battersea, comprising registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.

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.

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

Records of the parish of All Saints, Rotherhithe, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; register of burials and register of banns.

Records of the parish of St John Horselydown, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; papers relating to parish finances; faculties; papers relating to parochial charities and terrier.

Records relating to civil functions including Overseers of the Poor accounts; workhouse admission and discharge registers; poor relief book; and register of settlement examinations.

Records of the parish of Saint Katharine, Rotherhithe, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and church services; Parochial Church Council and Easter Vestry minutes; and parish magazine.

Registers of baptisms and marriages in the parish of Saint Paul, Bermondsey.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Bethnal Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and preachers; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to property; and curates' licence.

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Bethnal Green including registers of baptisms (1870-2001), marriages (1871-1960) and banns of marriage (1959-1981), as well as registers of church services (1951-2010).

Records of the parish of St Philip, Bethnal Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and church services; papers relating to parish boundaries and the benefice; minutes of the Parochial Church Council and the Vestry; and Church Committee minute book.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Bethnal Green, including register of marriages, register of baptisms, and minutes of the Committee for the Holy Trinity Hostel for Austrian Refugees.

Records of the parish of All Saints, North Peckham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and confirmations; register of preachers and church services; curates' licences; papers relating to the endowment; minutes of the Easter Vestry and the Parochial Church Council; financial accounts; and faculty for a memorial tablet.

Records of the Mission Church of Corpus Christi (Cambridge), Camberwell, including registers of baptisms and confirmations; church services registers; Church Council minutes; Parochial Church Council minute books; financial account books; and historical notes.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Camberwell, including registers of baptisms and marriages; Churchwarden's vouchers; papers relating to the parish school; papers relating to the church buildings; correspondence relating to parish boundaries; and newspaper cuttings.

Records of the parish of St George, Camberwell, including registers of baptisms, burials, marriages, and confirmations; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of other Committees; Churchwardens' account books; financial records including church rate books; papers relating to Saint George's National and Infants Schools; registers of church services; plan of parish and other papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to church buildings including the vicarage; photographs; papers relating to the Trinity College Mission; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Jude, Peckham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and church services; minute books; parish magazines; photographs; and papers relating to church buildings.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Herne Hill, including registers of baptisms and marriages; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; registers of church services; administrative files; printed material and records relating to the church buildings and fabric. Also records of the Mission Church of Saint John, Lowden Road and the parish hall of Saint Faith, Sunray Avenue.

Records of the parish of Saint Philip the Apostle, Camberwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and confirmations, service registers and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Stephen, South Dulwich, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns, and church services; Vestry meeting minutes; Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; financial accounts; Churchwarden's vouchers; faculties and other papers relating to the maintenance and restoration of the church building; legal documents relating to the ownership of church land; maps and plans showing changes to parish boundaries; and parish magazines.

Registers of the parish of Saint John, World's End, Chelsea, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations, and church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; annual reports and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of All Saints, Hatcham Park, including registers of baptisms and marriages; financial records; registers of church services; Parochial Church Council minutes; administrative files; Churchwardens' reports and accounts; papers of church societies including the Sunday School; papers relating to the maintenance of the church and vicarage including plans and elevations; papers relating to parish boundaries; printed charity appeals; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Brockley, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns; Parochial Church Council minutes and papers; financial accounts; faculties; papers relating to the church hall; parish magazines; and photographs.

Records of the parish of Saint James, Pentonville, including registers of baptisms, burials, marriages, confirmations and banns of marriage; registers of preachers; registers of church services; papers of the incumbent; papers relating to church property including plans; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings including architect's surveys; annual reports; financial records; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; Managing Committee of the Pentonville Charity School minute book and other School papers; papers relating to parochial charities; scrapbooks, photographs and newsletters.

Records of the Parish of Saint Paul, Bunhill Row, Islington, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; papers relating to the repair and maintenance of the church; and register of baptisms for the Mission District of Saint Catherine.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Clerkenwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages, church services, confirmations and churchings; papers relating to the renovation of the exterior of the church, and a parish magazine.

Records of the parish of Saint Silas, Pentonville, including baptism registers (1866-1929); marriage registers (1868-1924); Church service registers; papers relating to terrier; faculties for the maintenance of the church building and annual accounts.

Records of the parish of Saint Thomas, Charterhouse, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; summary of attendance at the school; register of church services and curates' licence.

Records of the parish of Saint Alban, Fulham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and church services; papers relating to parish boundaries; incumbent's correspondence; faculties, inventories and other papers relating to church fixtures and fittings; papers relating to the church hall; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers regarding parish charities; photographs and parish magazines

Records of the parish of Saint Dionis, Parsons Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, and church services; electoral rolls; and Churchwardens' financial accounts.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Charlton, comprising a record of church furnishings compiled by NADFAS (The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies).

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Greenwich, comprising registers of confirmations, baptisms and marriages.

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Homerton, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; register of burials; register of church services; papers relating to parish boundaries including map; papers regarding the maintenance of the church, church hall and vicarage; papers relating to the churchyard; and financial records.

Records of Christ Church, South Hackney, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; and newspaper cuttings relating to the benefice.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Clapton, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; faculties; audited accounts; and printed history of the parish.

Records of the parish of St Michael and All Angels, Hackney, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; registers of banns of marriage; church services registers; curates' licences; papers relating to the benefice including terriers, correspondence and documents regarding the Vicarage; papers relating to the maintenance of the church; financial records; papers of the Vestry and the Parochial Church Council; papers relating to the Church School; papers relating to the Scouts and papers regarding Saint Martin's Mission Church.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Homerton, including registers of baptisms, marriages and church services; staff records and letters concerning the establishment of the district.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Dalston, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; papers and maps regarding parish boundary changes; legal documents and faculties for church buildings; Easter Vestry and Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; minutes of the Sunday Lunch Club.

Records of West Hackney Church, Hackney, including registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials; minutes of the Select Vestry; account books; registers of church services; and papers relating to West Hackney National Schools.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Evangelist, Hammersmith, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; correspondence and papers relating to the church building and the organ; Charity Commission schemes and papers relating to the parish school and Parochial Church Council minutes.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Hammersmith, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmations, preachers and church services; papers relating to glebe lands, terrier and sequestration; faculties and correspondence relating to the maintenance of church buildings; Vestry meeting minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; annual reports; parish magazines; photographs; and scrapbooks of leaflets, circulars, tickets, programmes, orders of services, newspaper cuttings and similar.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Hampstead, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and confirmations; registers of church services; papers relating to the appointment of vicars; legal papers and orders relating to parish boundaries and land owned by the parish; papers relating to the maintenance of the church, church hall and vicarage, including faculties, agreements, correspondence and photographs; Churchwardens' financial accounts; administrative papers; Parochial Church Council minutes; Vestry minutes; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Cuthbert, Hampstead, comprising registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; preachers' books; Annual Vestry meeting minutes and Parochial Church Council minutes.