Records of Northwood Methodist Church, Oaklands Gate, including register of baptisms, 1905-1985; membership registers, 1975-1980; minutes of annual general meetings and secretary's annual reports for the Men's Circle, 1960-1964; financial accounts, 1905-1985; Trustees' Meeting minute book, 1896-1922; architectural plans, 1963-1975; Minister's correspondence concerning local ministry, manse facilities and local area, 1975; Overseas Missions Committee minute book, 1964-1982; Women's Work Committee minute books, 1956-1990; Men's Circle accounts and subscriptions book; 1955-1976; Prayer fellowship minute book; 1978-1984; illustrated leaflet on church activities, 1960s; historical notes, lists of ministers and related correspondence, 1977-1992; printed material, plans and related correspondence regarding church bazaar, including correspondence with Middlesex County Council regarding licensing, 1928-1955; Jubilee Souvenir booklet, 1946; Monthly newsletters, 1954-1971 and photographs of church exterior, 20th century.

Registers of marriages, 1926-1965.

Marriage registers for Oaklands Congregational Church, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, 1925-1970.

Records of Oaklands Congregational Church and Askew Road Methodist Church including minutes and administrative records and finance.

Records of Oaklands Congregational Church, Uxbridge Road, Hammersmith including records of clubs and societies, orders of service and music at the church.

The archive consists of the official working papers of the Chief Rabbinate from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Files, volumes, bundles of papers, photographs, prints, video tapes, publications and leaflets make up the bulk of the collection. The Chief Rabbis represented in this collection are Nathan Adler (1868-1901), Hermann Adler (1868-1921), Joseph Hertz (1899-1946), Israel Brodie (1917-1967), Immanuel Jakobovits (1913-1992) and Jonathan Sacks (1988-2004). Also included are some papers of the Deputy for the Chief Rabbi, Harris Lazarus (1942-1950).

The archive is primarily concerned with the activities of the Chief Rabbinate. Because of the cosmopolitan nature of the office there are files on Jewish congregations overseas which are of interest, also some papers on the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath (ACC/2805/06/05/1-11). The varying interests of individual Chief Rabbis are reflected in the collection: for instance Immanuel Jakobovits' role in Jewish medical ethics.

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

General records of the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, including letter books; appointment books; statistics; minutes of the Chief Rabbinate Council; minutes, correspondence and proceedings of the Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers; papers of the Provincial Jewish Ministers Fund including correspondence, minutes, financial accounts and reports of inspections of Hebrew classes; orders of service for national and royal occasions, synagogue foundations, consecrations, jubilees and anniversaries; funerals and memorials, marriages, Holocaust memorials, and dedications of hospitals and schools; and photographs. ACC/2805/01/110 records the results of the survey into Hebrew Congregations in the British Empire commissioned by Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler soon after he took office.

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.

Annotated copy of Offor's The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpations of the church and the consequences of the royal supremacy with notes, newspaper cuttings and letters that were found in the volume.

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.

Papers relating to Old Ford Methodist Church, including correspondence relating to the construction of the church and the appointment of trustees, 1870-1920; deeds, 1868-1910; insurance policies, 1880-1896; register of baptisms, 1871-1925 and minute books of meetings of Trustees, 1871-1976.

Papers relating to Old Mahogany Bar Methodist Church, Graces Alley, Wellclose Square, comprising publicity material including annual reports and anniversary programmes, 1929-1956, including pamphlet entitled "Sixty Eight Glorious Years for Christ. The Story of the Old Mahogany Bar (East End Mission)" by the Reverend Lesley E Day, 1956.

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.

Records of Oxendon Presbyterian Church including Court of Session Minute books, 1817-1938; Managers minute books, 1829-1966; Sunday School teachers' minute book including statistical records, 1903-1931; Young People's Guild minute books, 1910-1926; Literary Society minute book, 1911-1919; Communicants' roll books, 1866-1960; register of baptisms, 1836-1969; financial accounts, 1786-1959 and Literary Society talks, 1912-1913.

Records of the Paddington Chapel (Congregational), including register of baptism, 1853-1859; Deacon's meeting minute books, 1864-1956; Church meeting minutes, [1860]-1954; minutes of other church committees, 1862-1952; papers relating to Chapel membership, 1829-1895; financial accounts, 1870-1990; builders accounts and report on alterations to Chapel and School, 1868-1879; trust deeds and other legal papers relating to properties owned by the church, 1844-1954; letters received by the Chapel, 1867-1872; papers relating to the Sunday School, 1827-1956; issues of the Chapel magazine 'Paddington Monthly', 1908-1930 and 1962-1975; copies of the "Manual for the Church and congregation worshipping in Paddington Chapel", including annual reports and accounts, 1866-1939 (with gaps); printed items including orders of service, 1897-1989 and a history of the Chapel, 1963.

Schedules of trust property, 1941-1955.

Marriage registers of Park Baptist Chapel, Boston Manor Road, Brentford, 1935-1985.

Marriage register for Park Chapel, Arlington Road, Camden, 1911-1939.

Marriage registers for Park Chapel, Crouch End, 1954-1977.

Records of the Park Chapel, Hornsey, including declaration of trust and deeds; Deacons' Meeting minutes; Church Meeting minutes; Church registers of attendance; service sheets; financial records; papers relating to buildings and property; correspondence; papers relating to societies including the Sunday School and Dorcas Society; papers relating to the choir; papers relating to Hornsey British School; Church magazines and year books; plans; photographs; printed material; papers relating to the Blenheim Road Mission; papers relating to the Grove Mission and registers of marriages and baptisms at the Mount View Chapel, 1887-1913.

Roll of members, [1894]; minute book of deacons' meetings, 1894-1896 and minute book of church meetings, 1819-1897.

Registers of marriages, 1925-1961.

Court of Session minute books, 1860-1942; Managers' Meeting minute books, 1863-1942; Annual general and congregational meetings minute books, 1860-1941; Literary Society minute books, 1919-1939; Harvey Street Working Committee minute book, 1938-1956; Missionary Committee for Hoxton Mission, 1909-1917; minute book of the Trustees' meetings, 1896-1942; annual reports, 1861-1940 (some gaps); Communicants' roll books, 1859-1956, including Hoxton Mission; register of baptisms, 1860-1939; issues of The Highbury Magazine, 1901-1911 and issues of the Park Church Literary Magazine, 1929-1937.

Marriage registers for Park Presbyterian Church, Grosvenor Road, Highbury, 1921-1940.

Historical research and notes on the parish of Saint Michael Bassishaw, including extracts from parish records.

Records of the Pavement Chapel, Hoxton, later the Southgate Road Chapel, Hackney, including minutes of Church and Committee meetings, 1845-1859; Collections, 1845-1859; Roll of members, 1845-1878; register of marriages, 1851-1878 and register of baptisms, 1845-1888.

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.

Records of the Pembroke College Mission, Barlow Street, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; church services registers; and minutes of the Parochial Church Council and other committees.

Pembroke Road Methodist Church, Friern Barnet, registers of marriage, 1954-1972.

Register of baptisms for Penton Hall Methodist Church (later Twyford Hall Methodist Church), 1866-1890.

Records of the Percy Chapel, Charlotte Street, St Pancras, comprising three registers of baptisms.

Papers, 1817-1951, of and relating to John Philip, comprising correspondence and papers, 1817-1849, including manuscripts and pamphlets, on his call to South Africa and the reluctance of his Aberdeen congregation that he should leave; the situation in South Africa and government policy, leading to the writing of his Researches; the ensuing court case (against William Mackay); the Wesleyan intrusion in Griqualand; also including editions of South African newspapers, 1824; letters from Robert Moffat concerning the mission station at Kuruman, 1845; manuscript papers by Philip concerning South Africa and the life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton sent to Sir Edward Buxton, 1846; papers concerning Philip and South Africa, 1910-1951, including correspondence and press cuttings, some relating to W M Macmillan's Cape Colour Question (1927). The subjects include missionary activities and journeys, settlement in the region, race relations, slavery, and colonial policy.

Marriage registers for Pilgrim Church House, Southwark, 1949-1974.

Research notes and essays on the history of medicine by Lilian Gertrude Ping, 1935-1938. Within this the papers cover a wide range of topics, including: miracles, pilgrimages, healing and medieval English saints; history of anatomy and physiology; Spanish physicians; French medical history and the lives and miracles of various medieval figures: Henry VI, including material on his tomb at Windsor; St. William of York and St. Cuthbert, including accounts of the window illustrations of their lives in York Minster; and St. Thomas of Canterbury, including an account of the window illustrations of his life in Canterbury Cathedral, 1938.

Marriage registers for Plaistow Congregational Church, Balaam Street, 1925-1943.

Church book containing minutes of Church meetings, 1859-1863, roll of members, 1859-1880, register of baptisms, 1860-1882 and minute book of Church meetings, 1892-1903.

Marriage registers for Plaistow Congregational Mission Hall, Southern Road, 1947-1949.

Records of Plumstead Congregational Church, including licence, plans and materials specifications for a wood and iron church, 1899; legal papers relating to Church property; correspondence relating to sale of church real estate and scheme regarding the appointment of trustees.

Records of Plumstead Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, 1933-1961, including Sunday School attendance registers; minutes of Teachers' conferences and Sunday School Council; minutes of meetings of the Bazaar Committee; general correspondence; printed items including circuit plan, service sheets and programmes for social events; photographs of members of the church and the sisterhood.

Album with leaves of various colours containing poetry, chiefly of a religious nature, hymns and moral aphorisms; a few printed items have been inserted. The volume includes works by Isaac Watts, William Cowper, John Newton, Maria Abdy and James Montgomery, and shares with the last a Sheffield connection. One leaf bears the name 'Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland'. Compiled c1841-1846.

Scrapbook compiled by F Poffley containing items relating to St Alban's Church, Streatham Park, including engraving of proposed church, photographs of exterior and interior from 1887, the fire of 1947, and subsequent restoration and rededication, 1954, with notes from parish magazines.

Records of the Ponders End Wesleyan Methodist Church including pulpit notices, 1943-1980; financial accounts, 1942-1977; papers relating to the Sunday School, 1947-1980; papers relating to youth activities, 1937-1969; Regnal League Men's Meeting Minute Book, 1958-1964; newsletters, 1967-1986 and circuit plans for Enfield Circuit, 1974-1986.

Deeds and copy documents relating to premises in Woodstock Road (later Woodstock Terrace) belonging to Poplar Methodist Chapel, 1874-1956.

Marriage registers for Poplar Presbyterian Church, Plimsoll Street, East India Dock Road, 1901-1913.

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

Gebetbuch (Book of Prayers), c1521, including prayers to the Virgin (one in verse) and to St Catherine. Preceded by a calendar, including tables for the Golden Number and a table of signs of the zodiac.

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

The catalogued Pamphlet Collection comprises over 12,000 titles dating from approximately 1830 to the present. The Pamphlet Collection consists of printed material less than 60 pages in length and includes government policies, reports, annual reports and campaigning material, primary law, including Bills and Acts. The subject material of the collection reflects and enriches the wide range of topics held elsewhere in the Women's Library.The topics covered include: English fiction, children's stories, poetry, women's organisations, feminism, role of women in society - UK and abroad, nursing, sex discrimination law, divorce law, employment, occupations, careers, equal opportunities, labour law, pension law, social security, taxation, housing, health, pregnancy, abortion, birth control, domestic violence, mothers, one-parent families, children, family life, housekeeping, religion, ordination, arts, costume, suffrage. Organisations include Equal Opportunities Commission, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, National Union of Suffragettes, National Society for Women's Suffrage, US Women's Bureau, American National Red Cross, Union of Jewish Women, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, National Federation of Women's Institutes, Fawcett Society, National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child, British Federation of University Women, Association of University Women Teachers, Divorce Law Reform Union. Most of the material is in English, but there are also pamphlets in other languages, such as Italian, German and French.The pamphlets are arranged in two sections - one for standard sized pamphlets and one for oversized pamphlets.

The 'UDC Pamphlet Collection' [Universal Dewey Decimal Classification]: In addition to the main Pamphlet Collection is the 'UDC Pamphlet Collection.' The UDC collection was the first pamphlet collection created by the Library and consists of approximately 10,000 pamphlets dating from mid nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries, covering all subjects. As the collection was gradually acquired during the Library's first 20 years of life, it was arranged by subject, using the Universal Decimal Classification system. The pamphlets were primarily deposited by organisations and individuals, although some purchases were made. There is a finding aid kept with the collection but the collection was never catalogued and therefore remained a hidden resource within the Library for more than 80 years. Unsurprisingly other libraries did not collect most of these pamphlets. In 2007 as part of a cataloguing funding bid preliminary sampling of the collection against Copac (the merged online catalogues of 24 university research libraries in the UK, plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland) found that over 60% of the UDC pamphlets were not listed in these major research collections. This is a very significant level of unique printed material.Cataloguing of the UDC collection started in 2007 and as the pamphlets are catatogued, they are transferred to the main pamphlet collection described above. As at 2009 the collection was partially catalogued and The Library was seeking additional funds to complete the project.

Over 3,000 periodical titles are held dating from 1745, some in single issues, but many in complete or representative runs. The Periodicals Collection brings together academic, popular and campaigning women's journals in one location and gives a unique insight into periodicals published about, for and by women. Titles range from commercially-produced popular magazines (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan), to academic quarterlies (Gender and History, Feminist Review), organisational journals (One Parent Families, National Association of Women Pharmacists), special interest publications (Executive Black Woman), and older titles such as the English Woman's Journal. Many of these titles are not held in other research collections. The non-commercial nature of many of these periodicals with limited self-published print runs, resulted in periodicals that were issued irregularly, on poor quality paper and often only selectively deposited with the main copyright libraries.

COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED

The Library's collection of commercially published magazines, a key resource for research into social history and popular culture, begins with the Ladies' Almanack of the 1740s and documents women's fashion and domestic concerns from runs of the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, The Queen, Ladies' Magazine, Ladies Monthly Magazine and Lady, Gentlewoman, in the 19th century; Home Chat, Woman's Weekly, Woman, Woman's Own, Honey,, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire in the 20th century; Grazia, Glamour and Easy Living of more recent years. Also included are some magazines aimed at girls and young women such as The Girls' Own Paper, Petticoat, Just 17 and Jackie.

FEMINIST AND CAMPAIGNING

At the heart of the Periodical Collection are the women's campaigning journals and feminist periodicals. The collection of feminist periodicals at The Women's Library is unrivalled in its extent and breadth. It begins with the English Woman's Journal of the mid-19th century, and continues with titles such as The Young Women and includes complete runs of titles such as The Women's Penny Paper, the Woman's Herald, Victoria Magazine, the Woman's Signal, the Woman's Leader, Englishwoman's Review, Englishwoman, Freewoman, Time and Tide, Woman's Gazette, and Shafts all of which were key to the development of feminist theory and progressive ideas.

SUFFRAGE

The Library's extensive collection of suffrage periodicals is central to the study of women's rights in the 20th century, titles including Votes for Women, Common Cause, Woman's Dreadnought, The Vote, the Women's Suffrage Journal, Women's Franchise, the Suffragette Newssheet, the Independent Suffragette, Britannia, and the Suffragette as well as titles such as the Anti-Suffrage Review.

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

The collection of journals documenting 'second-wave' feminism in the UK includes complete runs of titles such as Spare Rib and Trouble and Strife and near complete runs of other liberation titles such as Red Rag, Shrew, WIRES, Outwrite and the London Women's Liberation Newsletter. Regional involvement was an integral part of the movement and this is charted through a number of regional titles including Brighton and Hove Women's Liberation Group, Edinburgh Women's Liberation newsletter, Leeds Women's Liberation newsletter, Leicester Women's Liberation newsletter, Manchester Women's Liberation newsletter and Norwich Women's Centre newsletter.

CONTEMPORARY FEMINISTS

The periodical holdings continue to document the development of contemporary feminism, sometimes referred to as 'third wave', with titles including Verve and Subtext. Additional contemporary feminist publications can be found within our 'zine' collection (dating from 2002).

WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS

Periodicals created by women's organisations, networks and campaigns. These can include weekly or monthly newsletters and magazines aimed at members, quarterly and annual journals aimed at members and a wider academic audience, and annual reports aimed at a wider audience. Given the short life of many campaigning organisations, their newsletters and bulletins often provide the main record of their activities. Few of these publications are held elsewhere, and they are only selectively deposited with national collections, organisations include: the Fawcett Society, National Council of Women, The National Federation of Women's Institutes (Home and Country), Townswomen's Guilds (The Townswoman), UK Federation of Business and Professional Women, Girls' Friendly Society, Executive Black Woman, Catholic Citizen and National Association of Women Pharmacists document women's efforts to come together to improve the quality of their lives.

SPECIALIST INTEREST

Whilst retaining the collecting focus of women's lives in the UK, there are a number of subject specialist interest areas including:

• The Arts - titles such as Feminist Arts News, Heresies: a feminist publication on art and politics, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Vogue and Women's Art Magazine.

• Domestic Violence - titles such as Rights of Women Bulletin, Violence Against Women: an international interdisciplinary journal and Women at War: preventing gun violence, WAVAV - Women Against Violence Against Women.

• Education - titles such as Gender and Education, The Woman Teacher, Gen: an anti-Sexist Education Journal, British Federation of University Women, and The Parents' Review.

• Employment - titles such as Work and Leisure, Women's Union Journal, Labour Woman, Women's Trade Union Review, Equality Now: magazine of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Executive Woman, the Woman Worker, The Woman Engineer: journal of the Woman's Engineering Society and Double shift: working women's newsletter.

• Family and the home - titles such as Women's Weekly, Woman's Own, Family Planning Today and New Home economics.

• Feminist Theory - titles such as Feminist Studies, Feminist Economics, Feminist Theory, and the International Journal of Feminist Studies.

• Health - titles such as Women and Health, Top Sante, London Black Women's Health Action project newsletter and Mental Health.

• Law - titles such as ALRA newsletter: Campaigning for a Woman's Right to Choose on Abortion, Family Law, Individualist: monthly journal of personal rights, Lesbian Employment Rights, and Rights of Women Bulletin, National Abortion Campaign.

• Literature - titles such as Mslexia, Silver Moon Quarterly and Writing Women.

• Media - titles such as Feminist Media Studies, The Woman Journalist and Women's Media Action Bulletin.

• Medicine - titles such as Women in Medicine: newsletter of the Medical Women's Federation and National Association of Women Pharmacists newsletter.

• Motherhood - titles such as Home and Family: journal of the Mother's Union, Journal of Marriage and Family, Maternity Alliance, Gingerbread, One Parent Families, World Congress of Mothers News and Information.

• Sexuality - titles such as Sappho, Sex Roles: a journal of research, Journal of the history of sexuality, Chroma, Diva, Arena Three and Dykelife.

• Women and peace - titles such as Woman today, Greenham Newsletter, Peace and Freedom News: journal of the British Section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sellafield Women's Peace Camp Newsletter, Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Newsletter and WoMenwith Hill: Women's Peace Camp Newsletter.

• Politics - titles such as Equal Opportunities International, Gender and Society and the NAWO e-bulletin (National Alliance of Women's Organisations).

• Prostitution - titles such as The Shield: to promote the repeal of Contagious Diseases Act, Network: news from the English Collective of Prostitutes and WHISPER: Women hurt in systems of prostitution engaged in revolt.

• Ethnicity - titles such as Pride, Race Today and Manushi.

• Religion - titles such as Church Militant, Jewish Women's Review, Catholic Citizen, Newsheet/Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity Network, and Movement for the Ordination of Women.

• Science and Technology are The Woman Engineer, Science for People, Women Chemists Newsletter and Forum: Journal of the Association for Women in Science and Engineering.

• Sport - titles such as Poise: the Health and beauty magazine, Ladies' Alpine Club, The Dyke: Lesbian Walkers' Magazine, Women in Sport: the Voice of Women's Sport and Outdoor Women.

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials at the Protestant Chapel, Ostend.

Records of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies, comprising three series of committee minute books and one secretary's letter book.