Religious Archives Group



On-line source materials for the religious history of the United KingdomAlthough all religious archives around the UK are currently closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still possible to do extensive research on religious history at home using online resources. In response to the current emergency the Religious Archives Group has quickly gathered together the following information and links, which we hope to improve and expand over the coming weeks. The best starting point is British History On-Line which is the gateway to a wealth of source material, at . There is a helpful subject guide on religious history: . For pre-Reformation monastic records, the English Monastic Archives database can be interrogated at: .Other on-line medieval resources are outlined here: original returns for the Religious Census of 1851 covering most places of worship in England and Wales then in existence have been digitised by the National Archives and are available online at the Church of England, there is the Database of Clergy of the Church of England 1540-1835: . Parish records (births, deaths and marriages) are available through subscription services such as HYPERLINK "" . For Anglican church buildings, researchers can consult images amongst the records of the Incorporated Church Building Society at: the Roman Catholic Church, a large body of registers and records can be accessed through . Archival catalogues giving an overview of the holdings of some major Catholic repositories are available at: female religious in exile on the Continent after the Reformation see: .Methodist material can be found at: and . Digitised records and books from the University of Manchester Library’s extensive religious history holdings are available to view via Manchester Digital Collections and Library Digitised Collections: , including material from the Methodist, Baptist, Moravian, Quaker, Congregational, Christian Brethren and Unitarian traditions. There are also examples from their Bible Collection which features items in many languages and dialects published over five centuries, and Latin, Hebrew and Persian religious manuscripts relating to Christianity, Judaism and IslamThe Salvation Army has also made some collections available without charge on-line via its own website: and in partnership with other projects. Links to these can be found at: . Three Salvation Army periodicals can also be accessed via subscription services: The British Newspaper Archive (The Social Gazette, 1910-17, The Deliverer 1910-18) and Gale’s 19th Century UK Periodicals (All the World, 1885-1900).Unitarians have material online at: .? Baptist records are available at: and . ??The website is a useful site for the Presbyterian and Congregational traditions while the United Reformed Church archive catalogue for 1936-2010 is available at: (for%20website).pdf.Church of Scotland and Roman Catholic records from Scotland are being made available through the National Records of Scotland’s gateway, Scotland’s People: Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive at the University of Southern California is an excellent resource on British and American Pentecostalism: is the gateway to Christian missionary records held in the UK : .A list of missionary and church archives, including links to sources which have been made available online, is provided through the website of the School of Oriental and African Studies: Twentieth Century Society's database of twentieth century churches is a useful resource for the built heritage: wealth of Jewish material is available via . Information and images from the first Muslim archive to be established in the UK is available at HYPERLINK "" and autobiographical and photographic and oral historical material can be found on . Some years ago the Building on History project assembled much useful information on researching religious history (including links to further online resources), particularly focused on London, but of relevance to other parts of the UK. There are two interlinked sites: focused on the Church of England and which contains resource guides on other Christian traditions – Baptists, Black Majority Churches, Methodists and Roman Catholics – as well as on Judaism and Islam. The Building on History material is designed to be useful for religious organizations seeking to understand and learn from their own history, as well as to local historians and academic researchers. ................
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