Register of baptisms, 1796-1894.

Two issues of The Methodist Recorder, 1895 and 1904.

Minutes of the Committee of the Methodist Sunday School Society, 1809-1829 and minutes of the General Meetings of the Methodist Sunday School Society, 1810-1824.

Minutes of Local Committee, 1817-1829; minutes of Teachers' and Committee meetings, 1821-1872; minutes of Day Schools Committee, 1886-1903; minutes of the Sunday School Council, 1912-1933; minutes of the Governing Council, 1899-1942; minutes of the Ragged School, 1899-1936; financial accounts, 1847-1959; Sunday School Log Book, 1820-1835; admission and attendance registers, 1835-1959; Board of Education schedules, reports and correspondence relating to the Day Schools, 1884 - 1903; correspondence and memoranda, 1880-1903 and 1954-1960; annual accounts, 1896-1959 (with gaps); correspondence and memoranda regarding tenancy at Bath Street London County Council School and war damage at Radnor Street School including plan of damage in basement and of proposed repairs, 1929-1950; general correspondence, 1854-1948, with pamphlet relating the history of the schools and renovation plans, 1928.

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

Records of churches within the First London Circuit, including the Wilson Street Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, 1850-1872.

Wilson Street Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel financial account book, 1850-1872.

Log Book for the Girls School, 1863-1836.

Register of baptisms, 1838-1880; register of marriages, 1843-1880 and 1902-1906; minutes of Sunday School Teachers' Meetings, 1875-1902; collection journal, 1931-1955; financial accounts, 1863-1881; subscription book for a Lying-In Charity, 1854-1905 and Hackney Road Branch of Wesleyan Missionary Society cash book, 1888-1910.

Mission Fund collections book, 1899-1931 and alphabetical index to names of scholars admitted into the Sunday School, 1902.

Record relating to Cross Street Wesleyan Mission, Liverpool, 1876.

Minute books containing Trustees' meetings and Chapel Management Committee meetings, 1878-1922; Treasurer's account book of receipt and expenditure, 1907-1911; subscription list for Debt Reduction Effort, 1918; souvenir programme of "Alice in Wonderland" bazaar, 1912; programme of "Prims" Concert Party, 1917.

Minutes of the Annual General Meetings of the Circuit Trustees, with Trustees General Ledger recording the income, expenditure and debts of Great Queen Street Chapel, Kings Cross Chapel, Camden Town Chapel, Kentish Town Chapel, Finchley Chapel and Barnet Chapel, 1840-1869, including notes on the history of these chapels and lists of trustees number of members in each society.

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 Sub Committee and General Committee of the Great Queen Street Circuit, 1877-1878; plan showing proposed site for Chapel and Schools at Agincourt Road, 1880?; draft proposed terms of purchase for plot of land on the north east of Agincourt Road, 1880 and correspondence concerning proposed Chapel in Agincourt Road (Gospel Oak site), 1880.

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.

Trustees' account books, 1869-1966; account book, 1959-1966; general correspondence, 1925-1950 and Trust correspondence, 1940-1958.

Schedules of trust property, 1941-1955.

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

Schedules of trust property and copies of statistical returns, 1961-1965.

Minutes of Hiley Road Committee, 1890-1893.

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

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings and related papers, 1919-1949; Treasurer's balance sheets, 1936-1938; Trust accounts, 1939-1940 and 1952-1962; receipts and payments, 1947-1948; cash book, 1898-1904; Treasurer's cash book, 1900-1912; Trustees Treasurer's account book, 1945-1964, including Paddington Circuit, Willesden Circuit and Kilburn and Hampstead Circuit; Trustees Treasurer's statements, cash accounts and other documents, 1923-1937; minutes of Kensal Rise organ trust, 1900-1907; scheme for debt clearing on organ and school building, 1907-1908; papers regarding organ reconstruction and other repairs to the Church, 1947-1960; trust papers, accounts, receipts and correspondence, 1923-1937; correspondence, 1945-1951; minutes of the Manse Trust, 1920-1958; correspondence, accounts, and other papers relating to the Manse trustees, 1922 and 1950-1957; minutes of Leaders' Meetings, 1900-1909; minutes of Leaders' Meetings and minutes of Annual Society Meetings, 1910-1936 and 1947-1965; minutes of Teachers' Meetings, 1894-1906; minutes of Finance Committee, 1935-1941; Class book, 1897-1899.

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings, 1869-1941; minutes of Leaders' Meetings, 1892-1964; minutes of Sunday School Council, 1868-1948 and minutes of Sunday School Teachers' Meetings, 1868-1886.

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.

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

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.

Circuit preaching plans for the following Circuits and Missions, 1959-1979: Blackheath and Lee Circuit; Blackheath and Lewisham Circuit; Broomwood and Clapham Circuit; Hackney Mission Circuit; Hammersmith Circuit; Hinde Street Circuit and Chaplaincy to the University of London Methodist Society; Leysian Mission Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; North-West London Mission; Notting Hill Methodist Church and Group Ministry; Shooters Hill Circuit; Tooting Mission; Wesley's Chapel City Road Circuit; West London Circuit; The Whitechapel Mission.

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.

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.

Paper by H.R. Wilton Hall on church life in Clapham, with emphasis on Evangelicalism, 1890s.

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 John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce, 1933-1994, including published and draft papers re juvenile delinquency, and relating to RAMC psychiatry service, Second World War. Includes account of case of religious fervour in an ambulance unit, 1941.

Correspondence and literature of various charitable bodies with which Sir Richard Cave was associated, 1954-1973, including the British Obesity Association, 1967-1969; Disabled Christians' Fellowship, 1959; International Holiday Camp and Rally for the Disabled, 1958; Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled , c 1970s; Scroth Centre for the Treatment of Rheumatic Disease by Natural Therapeutics, c 1950s-1970s; Society for the Relief of Distress and other bodies.

The collection includes material on several research projects undertaken by McCance and Widdowson, 1929-1993, as well as a small amount of personalia. There are notebooks recording the first research on analysis of foodstuffs carried out in the UK, started by McCance when at the Diabetes Department of King's College Hospital, after R D Lawrence asked him to analyse cooked foods. Widdowson joined him in 1933 and together they devised the separate methods for estimating different carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch and dextrose). In 1940 their findings were published as Chemical composition of foods, the first of now regularly produced Standard Food Composition publications. There are notebooks and photographs of self-experimentation undertaken within the department, on salt-deficiency, conducted by McCance on himself, colleagues and medical students, involving not only a salt-free diet, but exposure to a hot air bath to sweat the salt out of the body, and also on absorption and excretion of iron. There is also his diary of the experimental study of rationing undertaken in 1939. There are 220 complete questionnaires from their survey of female colleagues and acquaintances for a study of physical and emotional periodicity in women, undertaken 1929-1930. There are experimental notebooks and files relating to research into body composition and development from 1944 onwards. This collection represents only a part of the diversity of research undertaken during the course of their long careers.

Commonplace books containing extracts on many subjects. The compiler may possibly have been a Quaker or Nonconformist, as there are many quotations from such authorities. By a comparison of the dates of the many works quoted-which are mainly by Dissenters, Baptists, etc., these volumes seem to have been compiled not long after 1660.

Records of the parish of Saint Anne, Brondesbury, 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 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.