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Marriage registers for Hither Green Presbyterian Church, Birkhall Road, Hither Green, 1908-1931.

Records of Hither Green Methodist Church, 1901-1970, including minutes and other administrative papers; souvenir programmes of entertainments and events such as bazaars; correspondence addressed to Mrs H N Beecher Bryant, particularly from Doctor John Scott Lidgett, Methodist theologian and founder of the Bermondsey Settlement; and photographs of church events, clergy, members of the church and the interior and exterior of the church building.

Papers of Hitahadut Olej Germania, 1933-1934, an activity report, are divided into sections notably including correspondence from abroad providing details about prospective emigrants,including first help on arrival, economic organisation, cultural work, social work and financial report, 1933-1934; proposal for a credit bank, 1934; information circular regarding agricultural developments, 1934; remarks on the future work of Hitahadut Olej Germania, [1933-1934] and report on the remit of the Agricultural Department of Hitahadut Olej Germania, [1933-1934].

Papers of the Hirsch Family, 1934-1957, comprise personal and family papers of Jonni Hirsch including the copies of Abraham Hirsch's 19th century war record, c 1935; permit to leave the concentration camp Sachsenhausen and a certificate issued by the chief of police, Kiel, which describes Jonni Hirsch as a Mischling I Grade, therefore not classified as Jewish, according to German law 1, 1938.

Records of Hillingdon Methodist Circuit, comprising Circuit Foreign Missionary Committee minute book, 1935-1967 and Methodist Missionary Society Circuit account books, 1914-1962.

Correspondence concerning the Hilfsverein für jüdische Studierende, Berlin (aid organisation for Jewish students), founded in 1841 to help poor Jewish students receive secondary education, mostly relating to bequests, 1880-1910.

Papers of Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Jewish Aid in Germany) comprising correspondence regarding emigration to Palestine, Shanghai and Kenya, 1936-1939, notably including a critical report by the French based Jewish Colonisation Association to the directors of HICEM, 1937 and a report on the activities of the Hilfsverein, 1936.

Minutes of Hiley Road Committee, 1890-1893.

Records of Highgate Presbyterian Church, comprising Board of Management minute book, 1888-1925 and annual reports, 1888-1918.

Records of the Highgate Methodist Circuit and constituent churches, 1843-1981: Archway Road Church; Holly Park Church; Hornsey Road Church; Jackson's Lane Church; Kentish Town Circuit Records; Muswell Hill Church and Middle Lane Church, Hornsey.

Records include minute books, reports, financial accounts, papers relating to property, circuit plans, registers, pamphlets, papers relating to church groups and organisations, magazines, newsletters, publications and photographs.

Records of the Highgate Circuit, Methodist Church, 1873-1979, including Quarterly Meeting minute books; reports; financial accounts; minute books of other committees including the Ministerial Invitation Committee, the Finance Committee, the General Purpose Committee and the Local Preachers' Meeting; papers of the Performing Rights Society; papers regarding the management of manses [minister's residences] on the Circuit and Circuit preaching plans and directories.

Records of Highfields Presbyterian Church, Sussex, including Court of Session minute book, 1895-1916; Managers' minute book, 1896-1910; Communicants' roll books, 1882-1947; Treasurer's account book, 1896-1951 and general correspondence, 1938-1950.

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.

Papers of 'The Hidden Jews of Berlin', 1999, comprise interview transcripts with German Jews. The televison programme included detailed accounts of life in hiding in Berlin during World War Two; experience of capture, interrogation by Jewish collaborators and Gestapo and betrayal by Jews; Mischlinge; Fabrikation; Siemens; Rosenstrasse protest; Grosse Hamburger Strasse; life in Berlin before the war.

Papers of Eleanor Hess, 1872-1990s, document the life of a German Jewish refugee to Great Britain, and, in part, the lives of family members. The papers include emigration and citizenship papers of her grandfather Emil, c1870s; certificates and First World War army records of Julius, her father and correspondence from Eleanor and her brother, Herbert, in Brazil, to their mother, c1950s. The collection includes 2 boxes of family photographs. In addition there is an unpublished memoir of Eleanor, which describes the life of a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany and the experience of emigration to a foreign land.

Papers, 1938-1980, documenting the compensation claims made by Edith Herzer and her sister Hilde, German Jewish immigrants to Great Britain, whose parents were murdered at Auschwitz; comprising correspondence and other papers of compensation for loss of profession, loss of inherited property and suffering under the Nazi regime; rejection by the American Consulate, London, of application for immigration visa (1234/7) and copies of extract from the municipal authorities, Nice, regarding the fate of Hugo Herzer, Edith's father.

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

Original (and some copy) correspondence between friends and relatives of the Cahn Hepner family, 1874-1952, many of whom perished in the Holocaust.

Correspondence and papers documenting the experiences of Frank Henley (formerly Otto Lichtenstein) when he came to England on the Kindertransport, 1938, chiefly comprising instructions sent by the Provinzialverband für jüdische Wohlfahrtspflege in der Rheinprovinz, the organisation responsible for the well-being of Jews from Cologne; also including his train and boat ticket and his identity card with photograph.

Heilbrunner's account of life in Dachau, 1933, is a typescript memoir of Jewish inmate, Heilbrunner, in 1933. Written in the form of a narrative in the first person; structured into four chapters, describes in some detail the conditions in the camp and the brutality of the camp guards, contains manuscript annotations and corrections.

Papers of Selig Hecht, 1933, consist of two letters written by Selig Hecht, on a visit to Europe. The first, a letter to a colleague back home, outlines the problems facing Jewish academics in Nazi Germany, and introduces the second which is a much more detailed picture of the privations suffered by Jewish academics and also the indifference of the non-Jewish population, and the culmination of a latent antisemitism in the profession that had long pre-dated the Nazi seizure of power. The latter is addressed to Alfred Cohen. Others mentioned include Willstaetter, Fajans, and Alfred Wiener in his role as Syndikus or Director of the Organisation Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens.

Microfilm of papers, 1930s-1970s, of the Hechaluz, an organisation founded in 1917 to propagate the settlement of Jews in Kibbutzim, Palestine, on the possibilities of agriculture and artisan training open to young Jewish people during the Third Reich, on farms or in workshops organised under the auspices of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland and a letter from the Irgun Olej Merkas Europa, to the Landesversicherungsanstalt Rheinprovinz, 1976, in which a number of questions addressed by the latter to the former concerning the organisation of training opportunities for young Jews were answered.

Letter from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society addressed to C Aronsfeld of the Jewish Central Information Office, regarding the prosecution of Dr Robert Nussbaum for Rassenschande (marriage or sexual relations between a person considered 'Aryan' and one that was not), and his subsequent death in a concentration camp.

Papers of Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, 1945, comprise a letter from Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson), Chairman of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, to Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in which he explains in some detail his ideas for the settlement of Palestine.

Records of the United Synagogue Headquarters Staff Association consisting of administrative and financial records, including minutes, correspondence, legal documents, and papers relating to elections; and documents relating to the organisation of social events.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of Hayes Methodist Church including Trustees' Meetings Minutes, 1922-1946; Trustees' Accounts, 1909-1920, 1940-1966; Leaders' Meetings Minutes, 1924-1969; Collection Journals, 1920-1977; Women's Bright Hour, 1933-1972; Methodist Guild, 1941-1945; Senior Club, 1950-1974; Queen's Hall Thrift Club, 1959-1980; Missionary Committee, 1934-1965; Pulpit Notices, 1947-1972; Church Registers, 1949-1963; Annual Reports, 1946, 1972; Sunday School, 1924-1976; Orders of Service, 1935-1973; Year Books, 1950-1959; Church Magazines, 1957-1984.

Also records relating to Hayes and Harlington Club for the Blind, 1943-1955 and Barnhill Hill Methodist Church, 1960.

Records of Hayes End Methodist Church, including marriage registers, 1935-1980; baptism register, 1897-1951; Trustees' meetings minutes, 1895-1948; Trustees' Treasurer's accounts, 1894-1974; correspondence, 1932-1954; Leaders' meetings minutes, 1919-1973; Local Trustees' meetings minutes, 1937-1940; Society Stewards' accounts, 1914-1933; Wesley Guild, 1923-1950; Youth Council, 1950-1977; Young Wives, 1962-1969; pulpit notices, 1915-1984; class books, 1915-1973; collection journals, 1910-1973; Poor Fund accounts, 1935-1974 and Sunday School, 1914-1937.

Papers relating to Hay Internment camp, New South Wales, Austrlia, [1941] comprising a copy of Boomerang magazine, including articles from inmates on topics such as the Pioneer Corps, a commentary on the internment of aliens, health in the camp, teaching languages and the camp debating society, 1941 and woodcut image of Camp Hay, New South Wales, 1940s.

School Report of Rita Hauser of 'Y' camp School, Port St Mary, Isle of Man for the term 27 Oct 1941-19 Dec 1941.

Account of the Hascharah training centre at Braunton, Devon, comprising typescript notes, transcripts and copies of correspondence and other documents annotated by Fred Dunston, 1993.

Registers of marraiges, 1905-1931.

Records of Harrow Weald Methodist Church comprising Society meetings minute book, 1959-1971 and financial reports, report of the Circuit Policy Committee, registration of religious charities booklet and general correspondence, 1960-1972.

Records of the Harrow Methodist Circuit and churches in the circuit, 1896-1999: Harrow Church, Bessborough Road; Pinner Church, Cannon Lane; Eastcote Church; Harrow Weald Church; Ruislip Church, Ickenham Road; Kenton Church; North Harrow Church; Northwood Church, Oaklands Gate; Ruislip Common Church; Ruislip Manor Church; South Harrow Church; South Ruislip Church; Harrow Church, Welldon Crescent and Wealdstone Church.

The majority of these records were accumulated by the circuit archivist of the Harrow Methodist Circuit, and include minutes of meetings of Church Trustees, Church Leaders and various Church societies and groups, registers of baptisms, papers relating to construction of new buildings, correspondence, newsletters and magazines, orders of service, leaflets, programmes, circulars and newspaper cuttings, financial accounts, membership rolls, annual reports and photographs.

Registers of marriages, 1934-1974.

Records of Harrow Methodist Church, Bessborough Road, comprising Diamond Jubilee pamphlet and Diamond Jubilee Fund donation card, 1965 and Diamond Jubilee and closing service booklets, and accounts, printed material and correspondence regarding the closure of the church, 1967-1973.

Marriage registers for Harringay Congregational Church, Allison Road, Green Lanes, 1929-1957.

Records of Harley Street Congregational Chapel, Bow, including register of baptisms, 1885-1926 and marriages, 1881-1925; registers of attendance, 1878-1926; minutes of Church meetings, 1876-1890 and 1906-1922; minute book of 'Church Committee' otherwise 'Vestry meetings', 1908-1915.

Registers of marriages, 1926-1961.

Marriage registers for Harlesden Congregational Church, Church Road, 1902-1984.

Minutes of the Annual United Trustees' Meetings, 1947-1961.

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

Marriage registers, 1926-1983.

Records of the Hare Court Independent Church, Aldersgate, comprising letters relating to hiring a new minister.

Papers, 1827-1995, of James Hardyman, comprising writings in the form of published articles, press cuttings, typescripts, manuscripts and notes and correspondence relating to his interests in Malagasy history and culture and to his missionary work with the London Missionary Society. Also including photographs, postcards, illustrations, prints, engravings and sketches relating to Madagascar, and a collection of maps.

Marriage registers for Harbord Street Congregational Church, Fulham and Fulham Palace Road Congregational Church, Fulham, 1917-1985.

Solicitors' correspondence relating to Hampton Wick Roman Catholic Church, dealing with a mortgage on the property and with Land Value Duties, 1909-1912, including three letters from the Right Reverend Monsignor Maurice E. Carton de Wiart, Treasurer to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.

Register of marriages for Hampton Hill Spiritualist Church, Angel Close, Windmill Road, Hampton Hill, 1993-1995.

Papers of Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children, 1938-[1939], comprise two alphabetical series of cards detailing the children's particulars and another cancelled series of the same, these are arranged alphabetically and concern German and Austrian Jewish refugee children, many with passport-size photographs attached, [1939]; index cards giving details of sponsors, sometimes specifying a child, 1938; index cards giving name and address of individuals with whom children lodged, including details about children and maintenance costs, [1939] and a Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children form for potential sponsors, [1939].

Papers accumulated by the late George Hammond mostly relating to the parish of Saint Sepulchre Holborn. The papers mainly comprise notices, correspondence, accounts and apprenticeship indentures.