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Records of the New West End Synagogue consisting of minute books.

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Records of the West Ham Synagogue, including a register of reserved graves; Board of Management minutes; administrative files relating to premises, marriages, classes, staffing, centenary celebrations and the closure of the synagogue; financial records; membership lists; kethubah books [marriage contracts]; centenary exhibition boards; and a design for a hall.

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Records of the Watford and District Synagogue consisting of an account book for membership contributions.

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Correspondence of Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler, 1868-1921, relating to diverse subjects including education, legal cases, Jews College, shechita, charity and relief funds, Russo-Jewish Committee, the United Synagogue, administration, provincial congregations and marriages; and relating to foreign places including Australia, China, Japan, Palestine, Jerusalem, Ireland, Romania, South Africa, Russia and New York.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, 1899-1946, including correspondence with various individuals and organisations including the Anglo-Jewish Association, Aria College, the London Beth Din, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers, the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, the Jewish Chronicle, Jews' College, Central Committee for Jewish Education, the Jewish Historical Society, the Jewish Memorial Council, the Council for Christians and Jews, the Jewish Peace Society, London County Council, the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund, the Mizrachi Organisation, the Provincial Ministers Fund, the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, associate synagogues of the United Synagogue, the War Graves Commission, Zionist groups, the Talmud Torah Trust and the War Victims Fund.

Also correspondence with Jewish congregations throughout the United Kingdom and in countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States of America; correspondence relating to matters including shechita, Jews in Ukraine, Germany and Poland, war orphans, rabbinical exams, mikvah, marriages, kabolohs, disarmament, the Coronation of King George VI (1937), and pastoral tours of Wales and Ireland; papers relating to World War One including services for Jewish soldiers, the Kosher Food Fund, correspondence with chaplains, distribution of kosher foods, prisoners of war and Palestine Relief Fund, and copies of publications and sermons.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of Chief Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, 1913-1992. The records of Lord Jakobovits are the single largest part of the archive, indicative of the large volume of work undertaken and the relative speed with which the records were passed onto London Metropolitan Archives.

Records relating to the Office of the Chief Rabbi and Chief Rabbi's Cabinet including papers relating to social functions and administration. Correspondence with the Board of Deputies, London Beth Din and United Synagogue. Papers relating to Jewish communal organisations including the Kol Nidre Appeal and the Joint Israel Appeal.

Papers relating to education and Chaplaincy Boards including general correspondence, the Education Reform Act 1988, Jews' College, individual schools, colleges and universities, the University Jewish Chaplaincy Board, and the National Jewish Chaplaincy Board. Papers of the Jewish Educational Development Trust including administration, correspondence, financial records, trustees, donors, applications, fundraising and policies.

Papers relating to Jewish religious organisations including Reform, Liberal and Sephardi congregations and the Spanish and Portuguese Community. Papers relating to congregations and ministers in Great Britain including the registration of synagogues, the National Jewish Chaplaincy Board and provincial congregations.

Halacha [a legal decision regarding a matter or case for which there is no direct enactment in the Mosaic law, deduced by analogy from this law or from the Scriptures] and rulings on religious questions including correspondence, rulings relating to burial practices, the participation of women in communities, blasphemy, medical ethics, circumcision, bar mitzvah, marriage, conversions, get [divorce] legislation, High Holy Days and mikvaot. Papers relating to Shechita [slaughtering practices] and Kashrut [laws relating to food] including correspondence and minutes of the London Board for Shechita and the National Council of Shechita Boards of Great Britain, general correspondence, reports, and defence of shechita practices.

Papers relating to bills in the House of Lords. Correspondence with central Government departments and local authorities, including correspondence with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Correspondence with welfare organisations and papers relating to ageing, child abuse, crime, drugs, homelessness, hospice care, disabled people and individual welfare cases. Correspondence with religious leaders, individuals, and organisations relating to Israel, including the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

Correspondence with overseas congregations including those in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Ireland, Russia, South Africa, and the United States of America and correspondence with the Conference of European Rabbis. Papers relating to Soviet Jewry including correspondence, appeals and reports.

Papers relating to interfaith organisations including the Council of Christians and Jews. Papers relating to medical ethics including abortion, sex education, AIDS, organ transplants, Tay-Sachs disease and abortion. Papers relating to social issues including business ethics, disarmament, homosexuality, inner cities, disasters, and race relations. Correspondence relating to the representation of the Chief Rabbi on various public bodies and patronage by the Chief Rabbi.

Copies of sermons, addresses, publications from the office of the Chief Rabbi, press and publicity, broadcasts and messages from the Chief Rabbi. Personal papers including household accounts, letters of thanks and messages of sympathy. Papers relating to the Chief Rabbinate Fund including the distribution of funds to various causes.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of the Federation of Synagogues, 1887 - 1988. The records include a comprehensive set of minutes of the Federation; a less comprehensive but nonetheless interesting collection of minute books from the individual congregations; and minutes of other institutions connected with the Federation. There are also financial accounts, reports, property files (including synagogue plans), notice books and correspondence files which give a fuller picture of life of the Federation; and records of the East London Mikvah Committee; Federation Burial Society and London Talmud Torah Council.

Records of the Jewish Bread Meat and Coal Society, 1797-1954. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, correspondence, reports, copies of the Laws of the Society and other general material.

Records of the Jewish Memorial Council, 1899-2001. The archive mainly consists of files and volumes of minutes and working papers. The records of the Reverend Malcolm Weisman are noteworthy for the detail they provide on the survival of Judaism in small, often isolated, communities.

Records of Islington Congregational Chapel, Lower Street, including documents of title regarding the site of the meeting house and other church properties, 1744-1864; administrative papers, 1769-1837; financial statements, 1744 and 1795; papers relating to Lord Sidmouth's Bill for regulation of dissenting ministers, 1811 - 1812; minute books for meetings of managers, trustees, members and subscribers, 1746-1846 and treasurer's account books, 1790-1827.

Records of Offord Road Congregational Chapel comprising register of marriages, 1899 - 1917; accounts ledgers, 1900-1934; annual reports, 1922-1923 and plan and elevation of new entrance to school, 1905.

Records of Tolmer's Square Congregational Chapel, Euston, Camden, comprising register of marriages and baptisms, 1863-1919, register of marriages, 1905-1918, and parish magazines, 1891.

Financial accounts, 1896-1904; balance sheets, 1903-1904; minutes of Trustees meetings, Orders of the Charity Commission relating to Trustees, and correspondence, 1880-1910; transcript of second and third day of Charity Commission enquiry into administration of Orange Street chapel, 1910; documents relating to the lease and mortgage of Orange Street Chapel, Orange Street and Longs Court, Saint Martins-in-the-Fields, 1849-1868.

Volume containing a brief history of the chapel, minutes and membership lists, 1727-1856; minute book of quarterly meetings of "the Brethren of the Church", concerned with matters of finance, administration and discipline, 1821-1851.

Records of Boston Road Presbyterian Church, Albany Congregational Chapel and the Brentford Congregational Church, Boston Road; including volume containing baptisms, burials, membership and minutes of Church Meetings, 1693-1867; volume containing documents regarding finance, purchase of chapel site and construction of chapel and minutes of meetings, 1731-1840; minutes of deacon's meetings, 1883-1891; volume containing minutes of various Church meetings, membership rolls and correspondence, 1925-1941; volume from Albany Chapel containing history of chapel, minutes of Church meetings, baptisms and collections, 1853-1875; documents relating to property, 1709-1825; and papers concerning the reopening of the Church after damage by enemy action, 1954-1955.

Minute book of Church Management Committee and Deacon's Meetings, 1911-1941; minute book of Merton Hall Trustees, 1923-1941, including account of air-raids on Wimbledon and Merton, August 1940, damage to Church and subsequent disposal of property; and correspondence relating to 'New Eltham', ground rent, insurance, and so on, 1911-1912.

Volumes containing membership rolls, 1870-1917, minute books of Church Meetings, 1864-1918, registers of marriages, baptisms and burials, 1887-1895 and 1901-1918; minute books of Deacons' meetings, 1878-1918.

Leases for land at Denmark Hill and Red Post Hill, Camberwell, 1902-1904.

Lease and counterpart lease for land and Church buildings in Highbury Quadrant, Islington, 1862.

Covenant to produce deeds and mortgage for land in Lewisham, 1866 and 1879.

Leases and mortgages for properties in Catford Hill, Lewisham, 1866-1911.

Leases and mortgage for Lansdowne House, Court Road, Eltham, 1898-1899.

Records of Hammersmith Broadway Chapel including printed notices, 1847-1856; correspondence regarding services and preachers, 1844-1858; receipts, tickets and business cards, 1842-1866; printed notices from Hammersmith Auxiliary Christian Instruction Society, 1842-1850; annual report and list of Protestant Dissenting Deputies, 1847-1854.

Records of other churches including hymns for dedication service at Horbury Chapel, 1849; notice of sermons at Oaklands Chapel, Shepherds Bush, [1860]; Upper Holloway Congregational Church Record; 1916; tracts, 1852-[1860]

Also Mr Taylor's Exhibition Items, including receipts kept by Mr W.D. Salter (Secretary of Broadway Chapel, Hammersmith), 1842-1850; receipt regarding collections, ministerial expenses, ordination dinner accounts and Minister's receipt book, 1789-1860; Church Secretary's correspondence, 1825-1877 and posters regarding sermons and meetings; including West Middlesex Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers, and Ragged School Union, 1843-1859.

Administrative records of the London Congregational Union, 1851-1966, including membership registers, minute books, papers regarding properties of which the London Congregational Union is trustee, annual reports, magazines and booklets, correspondence with individual churches in the London Union and on subjects such as missions, chaplains, finance, fundraising and church groups.

Also records of the London Congregational Chapel Building Society (later Chapel Building Section of London Congregational Union), 1848-1942, including minutes, financial accounts and reports.

Records of the North District of the London Congregational Union, 1938-1959, including minutes and constitution.

Records of the London Board of Congregational Ministers, 1928-1951, including membership registers, subscriptions and financial accounts.

Records of Nathaniel Bromley's Charity, 1628-1939, including financial accounts, deeds, leases, mortgages, conveyances and sale documents.

Deed for the Congregational Memorial Hall, 1872.

Book recording grants given from Williamson's Trust 'to help poor Dissenting Ministers', 1883-1896.

Map from the Hornsey and Highgate Council of Evangelical Free Churches showing Free Church parishes in Hornsey and Highgate, 1910?

Memoirs of Reverend Richard J Evans, Secretary of the London Congregational Union, 1907-1941 and Moderator, 1935-1941.

Minute book of the Hornsey And Islington District of the London Congregational Union, 1960-1972.

Register of baptisms, 1859-1909 and register of marriages, 1900-1906.

Register of baptisms, 1921-1943; collection journal, 1932-1944 and account book, 1915-1944.

Minutes of the Trustees, 1862-1897 and minutes of the Sunday School Committee and Teachers, 1836-1856.

Class lists, Trustees, Officers' lists, and so on, 1905-1909.

Records of Weymouth Terrace British School, Shoreditch, 1863-1891.

Minutes of Executive Committee, 1925-1952; minutes of Quarterly Meetings, 1952-1966; minutes of Circuit Finance and Invitation Committee, including minutes of General Purposes Committee, 1958-1967; Circuit Stewards account book, 1955-1966; financial statements, 1939-1959; circuit plans, 1949-1978.

Also records of the Horace Jones Trust including correspondence, 1934-1958; letters from London County Council Education Officer concerning the Medal Fund, 1964; prospectus, 1938; accounts, 1963-1965 and letter to Mr Chippendale, Secretary of the Horace Jones Charity, from the Reverend Bodo Schwabe concerning Free Church Chaplaincy, 1970.

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings for the Great Queen Street Circuit, 1880-1900; minutes and correspondence of the Finance Committee, 1954-1964; Trust correspondence, 1951-1966; minutes of Leaders' Meetings, 1904-1924; Sunday School admission register, 1903-1920; minutes of Trustees' Meetings, 1953-1974; minutes of Sunday School Council, 1925-1973.

Schedules of trust property, 1941-1955.

Schedules of trust property for the Harlesden Circuit and the Harlesden and Willesden Green Circuit, 1939-1942.

Records of the Barking Road Methodist Society, Canning Town, and related churches, 1811-1965: Brunswick Methodist Chapel, Limehouse; Saint George's East Chapel, Cable Street, Poplar; Caledonian Road Chapel; Camden Town; Deptford Circuit; First West London and Second London Circuits; Forest Hill Chapel; Grove Wesleyan Mission; Islington Circuit; Seamen's Mission Circuit; Spitalfields Chapel and Walworth Chapel.

Register of baptisms, 1838-1890; account books, 1784-1800, 1815-1834 and 1850-1861; Steward's account book, 1818-1839; Poor account book, 1822-1832; Minute book of the meetings of the Chapel Committee of Spitalfields Wesleyan Chapel, 1862-1877; Minute book of the meetings of the trustees of Globe Road Chapel, Spitalfields Circuit, 1822-1869.

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

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.

Architectural plans, elevations and details of the West London Tabernacle, Holland Park, Kensington, by architects Habershon and Tite of 38 Bloomsbury Square, 1871.

Records of the Westminster Jews Free School, 1846-1950. This is a short series of records and consists of minutes and financial accounts. The minutes date from 1846 and include the first minute book of the Jewish Girls Free School (1846-1853) which contains lists of pupils and letters.

Records of the Belmont Synagogue, covering the whole range of activities undertaken by the Synagogue. In particular, the administration is well represented with minutes, agendas and correspondence from all the main committees; the Council of Management, Membership, Building Fund, Ladies Guild, Parents Association, Education and Social Activity Group.

Information on the religious life can be gleaned from files on Rabbi selection, Bat Chayil Ceremony, Yom Naroim and the Sefer Torah as well as from the substantial photographic collection which also presents a good picture of the social side of the community.

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Records of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (ULPS), dealing mainly with the creation of the new version of the prayer book Service of the Heart which was published in 1995. Rabbi John Rayner edited the new edition with Rabbi Chaim Stern as co-editor. Rabbi Julia Neuberger chaired the anthology committee. As well as aiming to combine general Jewish tradition with Progressive Jewish thought the editors wished to respond to changes in Jewish outlook in the late twentieth century. The use of language, in particular gender sensitivity, was carefully examined.

Other records include minutes and correspondence of the Federation of Womens' Societies Executive Committee and papers relating to ULPS educational courses.

Records of the Aged Poor Society. The records cover an incomplete collection of minute books and annual reports for the Society and Saint Joseph's Alms House, Hammersmith. According to the Society's 'Historic Records' report (1957), no records prior to 1820 have survived.

Despite the gaps in the records, the minutes and reports provide detailed information on the establishment of the almshouses, the use of funds from will bequests, the admission and discharge of aged poor beneficiaries, and the membership and patronage of the Society.

Records of The Home for Aged Jews (later called Nightingale House and later Nightingale). This collection contains a wide range of records of the Home including minutes, a good set of annual reports, accounts, property and building records, printed material, photographs, film and videos. The archive gives detailed coverage of changes in care work and the life of residents and staff working at Nightingale. Of particular interest are the residents' admission book (1914-1933) and official 'diary' of events (1916) which are a good resource for tracing residents admitted to the Home, and the annual reports (1896-1997) which cover all aspects of the work of the Home including the early introduction of Occupational Therapy and other facilties for residents.

The majority of the archive relates to the later half of the 20th century, although there is a small survival of records from the early period of the Home and its former Charities (from 1879) before its move to Wandsworth in 1907. The minutes include a minute book of the Wandsworth Hospital Group's Jewish Home of Rest, Birchlands Avenue, Wandsworth. The property deeds include deeds of the Farmiloe family, lead and glass merchants of Rochester Row, Westminster.

Organisational papers of the League of Jewish Women, including meeting minutes from various committees; reports; general administrative records; correspondence; papers relating to the organisation of various events and conferences; magazines and press cuttings; and films and photographs.

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Records of the Shabbaton Choir consisting of scrapbooks containing souvenirs of concerts and tours. Files include arrangements, publicity, photographs, messages of thanks and congratulation, concert programmes, orders of service.

Papers of Ivy Keess including degree certificates, testimonials, photographs, [1909-1937].

Personal papers and correspondence of John Coakley Lettsom, 1766-1812, including medical papers and pamphlets by Lettsom, newspaper cuttings relating to him, or subjects that interested him. Letters from various correspondents, mainly from the medical profession. The papers reflect his primary interests in 'Quacks and Quackery', clinical medicine, pathology, materia medica, variolation and vaccination. Many relate to the business of the Medical Society of London, of which Lettsom was President. There is also a fragment of an autobiography of his life as a as a student, MS.3245.

Papers and research notes of Alec Haggis relating to medical history. Many relate to Haggis's research into medical licensing in England and Wales prior to the Act of 1858.

Records of the London Central Mission Methodist Circuit, 1866-1976, including records of the circuit itself and the records of the following constituent churches and missions: St. John's Square Church, Clerkenwell (LMA/4008/SJS); Islington Central Methodist Church and its predecessors (LMA/4008/ICMC); Haggerston Church (LMA/4008/HAG); Maidstone Street Church/Harbour Light Church (LMA/4008/MSHL); Camden Street and Camden Town Churches (LMA/4008/CAM); Kings' Cross Mission, Crestfield Street (LMA/4008/KCCM); Kings' Cross Mission, Charlotte Street/Carnegie Street (LMA/4008/KCCS); Caledonian Road Primitive Methodist Church (LMA/4008/CRPM); Caledonian Road Wesleyan Methodist Church (LMA/4008/CRWM); Mayfield Road, Dalston Church (LMA/4008/MRD); Penton Hall/Twyford Hall Church (LMA/4008/PHTH); Railton Road, Herne Hill Church (LMA/4008/RRHH).