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        Rawcliffe, Rt Rev Derek Alec
        GB 0102 PP MS 61 · Created 1953-1986

        Papers, 1953-1986, dating predominantly from the 1960s and 1970s, on Melanesian culture, government and geography and the work of the church in the New Hebrides, collected by the Rt Rev Derek Rawcliffe.

        Rawcliffe , Derek Alec , b 1921 , Bishop of Glasgow
        GB 1556 WL 630 · Collection · 1909-1960

        Personal papers and correspondence of Walter Raschkow, a Jewish architect and his non-Jewish wife, Emma, 1909-1960, comprising personal and official papers of Walter and Emma Raschkow including passport, residency permit, exit permits and identification cards, 12 Aug 1909-3 Jun 1958; correspondence and papers of Walter Raschkow including material relating to his marriage status as 'priviligierte Mischehe'; correspondence with the Finanzamt, Stuttgart; correspondence from family members and statements in support of friends and colleagues who had assisted him during his war time persecution, 12 Dec 1938-4 Jul 1947; Red Cross telegrams between Ingeborg-Maria Raschkow (later Mrs Mayer) and her parents, Emma and Walter Raschkow, 22 Mar 1941-21 Sep 1945 and correspondence and documentation relating to Walter Raschkow's claim for compensation from the German government for suffering caused to him as a result of Nazi persecution. Including decisions of the court, Landesamt für die Wiedergutmachung - Stuttgart, regarding an award based on loss of professional and economic status, 1956, and on health effects, 1958. Of particular interest is the testimony of the court's medical officer, Dr Joachim Beck which proved decisive in keeping damages down to a minimum, and Raschkow's reaction to it as evidenced in subsequent correspondence.

        Raschkow family
        GB 0074 A/RNY · Collection · 1857-1969

        Records of charity The Ranyard Mission and Ranyard Nurses, comprising Council minutes; Finance Committee minutes; Executive Committee minutes; registers of nurses; annual reports; correspondence; booklets, pamphlets and magazines; accounts of the Mission; speeches; photographs; badges; and papers relating to Special Funds.

        The Ranyard Mission and Ranyard Nurses The London Bible and Domestic Female Mission x London Biblewomen and Nurses Mission
        LMA/4008/RRHH · Subfonds · 1910-1926

        Herne Hill Methodist Church, Railton Road: Sunday School Teachers' minute book, 1910-1926.

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        RADNOR STREET SCHOOLS
        N/M/017-2 · Collection · 1817-1960

        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.

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        GB 0074 LMA/4238 · Collection · 1970-1994

        Records of the Rabbinical Commission for the Licensing of Shochetim, including Commission minutes; general correspondence and correspondence with Shechita Boards.

        Rabbinical Commission for the Licensing of Shochetim
        N/M/040 · Collection · 1868-1964

        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.

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        LMA/4412 · Collection · 1845-1927

        Court of Session minute books, including annual reports, 1844-1920; minute books of the Diaconate, 1845-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1863-1913.

        Presbyterian Church of England
        Pyne, Thomas
        GB 0102 MS 380668 · 1835-c1975

        Papers, 1835-c1975, of and relating to the Rev Thomas Pyne, comprising correspondence and accounts, 1839-1845 and undated, documenting Pyne's guardianship of (John) Ossoo Ansah and (William) Quanti Massah in England (1840), associated expenses, and aspects of their trip including invitations to dinner, entrance permits to London Zoo and to George Heriot's Hospital [School], Edinburgh, undated plan of a breakwater, Falmouth(?), undated print of Brighton Pavilion and other ephemera relating to places visited, photographs of paintings of the princes, and various visiting cards; other correspondence and papers of Pyne, 1835-1873 and undated, including printed Thanksgiving sermon preached at St Peter's Church, New York, including anti-slavery sentiments, 1835, pamphlets by Pyne on peace, 1844 and undated, and astronomy, 1852, a letter from L'Institut d'Afrique to Pyne concerning honorary membership, 1843, miscellaneous pamphlets relating to African affairs, and a photograph of Pyne, 1870; correspondence, notes, transcripts from original documents, and other papers, 1950-1953, c1975 and undated, concerning Pyne and his papers, and the two princes, including their portraits.

        Pyne , Thomas , 1801-1873 , clergyman
        LMA/4022 · Collection · 1907-1996

        Records of Putney United Reformed Church including baptism and marriage registers, 1907-1992; minutes of the Session, later the Elders Meeting; minutes of the Board of Managers, later the Deacon's Court, later the Church Meeting; minutes of the Stewards' Meeting; minutes of other church committees; Communicant Books which were attested by order of the Session; papers relating to rebuilding work following World War Two bomb damage; newsletters, reports and other publications of the Church, including Church Notes which provides selected sermons given at the Church; war memorials; a file of press cuttings and photographs relating to special events; order of service sheets; histories of the Putney Church and photographs of centenary celebrations.

        Presbyterian Church of England
        PROVIDENCE CHAPEL, UXBRIDGE
        LMA/4160 · Collection · 1924-1961

        Marriage registers for the Providence Congregational Church, Uxbridge, 1924-1961.

        Congregational Church of England and Wales
        ACC/3281 · Collection · 1982

        Register of marriages for the Providence Baptist Chapel, 1982.

        Baptist Union of Great Britain x General Baptists x Particular Baptists
        GB 1556 WL 883 · Collection · 1934

        Copy of a sworn statement by Philip Perceval Graves, former correspondent of The Times on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 24 Oct 1934, addressed to a court in Berne, Switzerland. The statement confirms that the content of a pamphlet entitled 'The Truth about the 'Protocols'- a Literary Forgery' by Graves, published in The Times, Aug 1921, is true.

        Graves , Philip Perceval , 1876-1953 , journalist and writer
        GB 0074 CLC/181 · Collection · 1732-1909

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

        Protestant Dissenting Deputies
        GB 1556 WL 753 · Collection · 1939

        Papers on conditions for Jews under the Nazis in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939, comprising a report arranged under the following headings: general situation; situation of Jews and Jewish emigration, explaining the procedure of application for exit permits, 20 Aug 1939, and digest of newspaper reports relating to the conditions for Jews in Bohemia and Moravia in 1939.

        Unknown
        GB 1556 WL 1211 · 1936-1937

        Papers relating to Joachim Prinz, 1936-1937, including text of a speech by former members of Joachim Prinz's congregation, prior to Prinz's departure to the US, [1937]; newspaper cuttings including an article entitled 'Unsere jüdische Kultursituation' by Prinz from the Israelitisches Familienblatt, 7 Oct 1936 and an article written in honour of Prinz shortly prior to his departure to the US, 11 Jun 1937.

        Prinz , Joachim , 1902-1988 , rabbi
        PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CHURCH
        N/M/031 · Collection · 1869-1966

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

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church

        Records, 1819-1966, of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, comprising minutes of the General Missionary Committee, 1863-1933; minutes of the Primitive Methodist African Missionary Society, 1921-1966; foreign reports, 1914-1933; quarterly reports from South and Central Africa, 1894-1916; correspondence from the Home Committee, 1903-1908, and correspondence from the overseas missionary districts of Fernando Po, 1894-1933, Nigeria, 1897-1933, and South and Central Africa, 1892-1934. The collection includes minutes of Conference for the Primitive Methodist Church, 1819-1932.

        Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
        GB 1556 WL 1148 · 1940

        Copies of correspondence between Frederick Sittner and May Priestly, 1940, documenting the experiences of Sittner, a German Jewish refugee, whilst held in Dixon's Interment Camp, Paignton, Devon. Copy of an extract from Friedrich Sittner's instructions regarding the disposal of his possessions and 4 photographs of Sittner and Priestley.

        Priestley , A May , fl 1940
        LMA/4337 · Collection · 1899-1969

        Records of the Presbyterian Housing Scheme, Poplar, including Ladies Committee minute book (The Committee of the Presbyterian Settlement, East London), 1901-1910; Ladies Settlement Committee minute book, 1910-1912; Committee of the Women's Presbyterian Settlement minute book, 1912-1939; Settlement Committee minute book, 1939-1946; General Committee minute book, 1946-1964; Executive Committee minute book, 1938-1960; Finance Committee minute book, 1954-1958; annual reports of the Presbyterian Settlement (missing years 1938, 1939 and 1966), 1899-1969; annual reports written by the congregation (missing 1961/1962), 1960-1965; architectural plans, 1938-1953; printed material relating to the Presbyterian Settlement, 1924-1968 and correspondence, 1911-1967.

        Presbyterian Church of England
        GB 0102 PCE · Created 1842-1972

        Records, 1842-1972, of the Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions Committee (or English Presbyterian Mission), comprising:
        Home Office (central administration) papers, consisting of general correspondence, including minutes and office copies of material, Finance Committee papers, including minutes, 1920-1937, files of correspondence and reports with Internal and External Organisations, and annual field reports from missionaries overseas;
        Overseas papers from the various mission fields, consisting of general correspondence and reports, field reports and correspondence from individuals, and reports concerning particular hospitals, schools and Institutions;
        Women's Missionary Association papers;
        publications, other printed materials, and some photographic material.

        Presbyterian Church of England , Foreign Missions Committee
        English Presbyterian Mission
        Prayer Book (Dutch, c1521)
        GB 0103 MS GERM 25 · c1521

        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.

        Unknown
        Pratt, Benjamin
        GB 0102 MS 380651 · Created 1884-1922, [1995]

        Letters of Benjamin Pratt to his family, 1884-1922. Also includes the publication By Bullock-Bandy and Bicycle [1995], by J. Milner and C. Pratt, which includes transcripts of Benjamin Pratt's letters.

        Pratt , Benjamin , 1853-1931 , missionary
        Pottlitzer family papers
        GB 1556 WL 1194 · 1894-1968

        Papers of the Pottlitzer family, 1894-1968, including birth, marriage and death certificates; Deutsches Reich Kennkarte (identity card) for Margot Strauss (1194/7); reference from a former employer, where Margot worked as an editor/journalist, 10 Mar 1933 (1194/3); copy of a manuscript letter from Max Pottlitzer to the Polizeiamt, Schöneberg, Berlin, in which he registers the transfer of money and property to his mother, [as required by the recently enacted law relating to the registering of Jewish property], 22 Sep 1938 (1194/4).

        Pottlitzer family
        POPLAR WESLEYAN MISSION
        O/121 · Collection · 1932-1939

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

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        POPLAR METHODIST CHURCH
        ACC/3225 · Collection · 1874-1956

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

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        ACC/2449 · Collection · 1943-1980

        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.

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        Polytechnic Institute
        GB 1753 PIN · Collection · 1880-2002

        Records of the organisation known variously as the Polytechnic Sports Club, the The Institute of the Polytechnic Sports and Social Clubs, and The Polytechnic Sports Club Committee, as well as records of the Polytechnic's Men's and Women's Council, and Joint Council.

        This collection includes all records relating to the organisation of sports and social activities by members of the Polytechnic except for records of the individual clubs themselves, which are catalogued as separate collections. However it does include correspondence with the clubs by the Secretary and Committees. This collection also includes papers relating to the award of Polytechnic-wide medals and trophies, including the Elsie Hoare Trophy, Studd Trophy and Ditchman Trophy.

        Youths' Christian Institute , London Young Men's Christian Institute , London Polytechnic Young Men's Christian Institute , London Polytechnic Institute , Regent Street Regent Street Polytechnic PCL , Polytechnic of Central London
        GB 0102 MS 380690 · Created 1888-1970

        Correspondence and papers, 1888-1970, of and relating to Samuel Pollard, used by R Elliott Kendall for his work on Pollard, and comprising 12 letters from Pollard, 1888-1915, during his time in China, 11 of them to H W Horwill; four letters concerning Pollard, 1915-1916, 1970; three articles by Pollard on China, c1911-c1913; notes by H W Horwill on Pollard, undated; 50 press cuttings, 1908-1915, including some by Pollard in religious publications; 21 press cuttings, 1915-1921, mainly obituaries and reviews of Pollard's publications.

        Pollard , Samuel , 1864-1915 , missionary
        Pollard, Samuel
        GB 0102 MMS/Special Series/Biographical/China/FBN 29-30 (Boxes 639-640) · 1885-1915
        Part of (WESLEYAN) METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY/METHODIST CHURCH OVERSEAS DIVISION

        Papers, 1885-1915, of the Rev Samuel Pollard, comprising 12 diaries, 1885-1915, describing life and work in China; manuscript and typescript accounts and letters by Pollard and cuttings by Pollard and other authors, 1900s-1910s (some undated), describing missionary work and life and customs in China, including remote regions; eight photographs, undated, including local people, Pollard, and Pollard's grave.

        Pollard , Samuel , 1864-1915 , missionary
        GB 1556 WL 556 · [1940s]

        Reports on the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era, [1940-1949]. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French Jew's experience of Auschwitz.

        Jewish Central Information Office
        ACC/2947 · Collection · 1933-1961

        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.

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        LMA/4311 · Collection · 1899-1950

        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.

        Congregational Church of England and Wales
        GB 1556 WL 689 · Collection · 1941

        Plea for food and money from Jews in French internment camp, 1941, comprises a copy of a letter from Dr Michel Lewinsohn and David Kraus in Camp de Vernet- d'Ariège to the Jewish community in Lisbon asking for kosher food for Passover, and money.

        Unknown
        PLAISTOW MARSH CHURCH
        ACC/1850-6 · Collection · 1858

        Mortgage agreement between the Trustees of the Primitive Methodist Connexion at Plaistow Marsh and Charles White, 12 Colet Place, Commercial Road, 1858.

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        N/C/33 · Collection · 1859-1903

        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.

        Congregational Church of England and Wales
        PIPEL, Kay: autobiography
        GB 106 7KPL · Fonds · Dec 1996

        The archive consists of a photocopy of a typescript autobiographical essay by Kay Pilpel entitled, 'Growing up in the 1930s' in which she describes her family background, the Jewish community in London from the 1890s onwards, and her daily life as a child and schoolgirl at Tottenham High School for Girls, including her experience of evacuation during the Second World War. The essay is illustrated with family trees and includes copies of family photographs.

        Pilpel , Kay , fl 1930-2002 , schoolgirl
        GB 0120 MSS.8270-8279, 8444 · 1935-1938

        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.

        Ping , Lilian Gertrude , b 1871
        GB 0074 LMA/4672 · Collection · 192- - 195-

        Records of William J. Piggott including photographs and printed poems collected by Will and Doris McNulty.

        Piggott , William J , fl 1917-1957 , London County Council chaplain
        Philip, John
        GB 0102 CWM/LMS Africa Miscellaneous Boxes 12-14 · 1817-1951
        Part of COUNCIL FOR WORLD MISSION

        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.

        Philip , John , 1775-1851 , missionary
        GB 0120 WA/HSW · 1800-1985

        Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome, 1800-1985, comprising articles, publications, financial records, legal records, administrative documents, property details, probate records, marriage and divorce records, diaries, microfiche of letter books, details of events, subscription lists, field and geological reports, press cuttings, photographs, ephemera, objects, and family papers dating back to 1800.

        Wellcome , Sir , Henry Solomon , 1853-1936 , Knight , manufacturing chemist, patron of science and archaeologist
        GB 1556 WL 522 · Collection · 1941-1955

        Documents about the persecution of Jews in Poland by Bruno Streckenbach and on his postwar trial.

        Marek Vajsblum: article about the fate of Polish archives entitled 'Mutability of the Past- nazi-made'.

        Streckenbach , Bruno , 1902-1977 , Gestapo officer Vajsblum , Marek , fl 1955 , journalist
        GB 1556 WL 532 · Collection · 1939-1940

        Reports and personal accounts describing the conditions of Jews in Poland under German occupation including lists of victims, details of deportations and concentration camps; situation reports, 1939-1940.

        Unknown
        GB 1556 WL 1145 · Collection · 1935-1945

        Papers concerning the persecution of Jews in Berlin, 1935-1945, notably include copies of an arrest warrant for Leo Boschwitz, 1935, for the destruction of a copy Der Stürme and his release from Lichtenburg concentration camp in the same year; a good conduct certificate issued by Camp le Vernet for Kurt Nohe, 1940; detailed instructions issued by the jüdische Kultusvereinigung zu Berlin to Regina Montilja prior to her deportation to 'the Protectorate', 1942; pro forma summons to the assembly station at Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Berlin, 1943, and at Schulstrasse 78, Berlin, 1944.

        Unknown
        GB 1556 WL 599a · Collection · 1873-1939

        Correspondence and family documents of Hermann Perl, 1873-1939, including correspondence from friends in Breslau and Berlin regarding arrangements for emigration and a copy of a marriage certificate, Danzig, 1873.

        Perl , Hermann , fl 1930-1939 , German Jewish immigrant