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The Transactions of Congregational Historical Society was first published in 1901, covering the history of Congregationalism in England, and to some extent Wales, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. Upon the formation of the United Reformed Church in 1972, study of this area continued in the United Reformed Church History Society and the Congregational History Circle (later known as the Congregational History Society).

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Vols. 1 - 7 (1901-1918)
Vols. 8 - 14 (1919-1944)
Vols. 15 - 21 (1945-1972)
Index, Vols. 1-19 View in PDF format pdf

Volume 15

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  • Editorial
  • Cavendish Church, Suffolk - Alex. J. Grieve
  • Letters of Oliver Heywood and Life of Richard Heywood
  • Life of Richard Heywood
  • Reviews - Alex J. Grieve
  • The Bedford Missionary Training College and its connection with the London Missionary Society
  • Lyon Turner's Original Records. Notes and Identifications IV
  • Certificate for Dissenters' Worship, 1807
  • Accounts for the Yea,, ending 31st December, 1944

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  • Editorial
  • Selina, Countess of Huntingdon
  • Congregational Martyrs at Bury St. Edmunds. How Many? - Albert Peel
  • The Beginnings of Dissent in Painswick, Some Historical Fragments - T.E. Morris
  • £100 Prize
  • Cavendish: Further Notes - A.J. Grieve
  • Life at Hoxton College 1820–1823
  • Reviews - Geoffrey F. Nuttall
  • Another Way of Union
  • Eighteenth Century Sidelights on Derbyshire Nonconformity
  • Seats and Graves from the Poole Church Book
  • List of Members
  • Accounts for Year Ending 31st December 1945

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  • Editorial
  • Alexander Stewart's Students at Barnet
  • Tattenhall Congregational Church, Cheshire - W. Gordon Robinson
  • The Last of Salem (Cogan Street) Church in Hull: With Notes of the Sibree Family
  • Three Missing "Exhibits" at Penry's Trial
  • Review: Touchinge the Lowe Countries - Albert Peel
  • Review: Newport, Isle of Wight Congregational Church {St. James's) - Thomas Binney
  • Our Contemporaries - Geoffrey F. Nuttall
  • Reviews - Geoffrey F. Nuttall
  • Statement of Accounts for Year Ending 31st December 1946

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  • Editorial
  • Background to Reading Congregationalism
  • Pireshyterianism Under The Commonwealth The Wirksworth Classis Minutes, 1651-1658 - Charles E. Surman
  • The Diary of a Deacon at White Row Chapel, Spitalfields - Albert Peel
  • Sidmouth Congregational Church. The First Minute Book
  • The First English Congregational Church, Neath: Wind Street (1846-1886), Gnoll Road 1886
  • Old Time Criticism
  • Reviews - A.J. Grieve
  • Accounts for Year Ending 31st December 1947

Volume 16

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  • Editorial
  • Isaac Watts and 18th. Century Dissent
  • The Imprisonments of John Bunyan - Joyce Godber
  • Nonconformity in Mill Hill Village before 1807
  • Presbyterianism under the Commonwealth
  • Statement of Accounts for Year Ending 3ist December 1948

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  • Editorial
  • The Church Covenant in Independency
  • Some Seventeenth-Century Testimonies - John H. Taylor
  • Letters by Philip Doddridge
  • William Roby's Missionary Candidates - W. Gordon Robinson
  • Alexander Fletcher (1787-1860)
  • Tonica Congregational Church 1857-1948 - Albert Peel
  • Reviews - Albert Peel
  • Contemporaries and Local Histories
  • MS. Autobiographies at Dr. Williams's Library

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  • Editorial
  • Albert Peel
  • The Lord Protector: A study in Personal Religion and Public Action - Robert S. Paul
  • Robert Thomas. Independent Minister, Baglan Glamorgan (d.1692) - T. Mardy Rees
  • Church Beliefs
  • David Bogue to William Bull, 1813
  • Funeral Sermons on Thomas Spencer of Liverpool - W. Gordon Robinson
  • Some Bibliographical Notes And Identifications - Geoffrey F. Nuttall
  • Our Contemporaries - H. Sellers
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • Church and Dissent in the Reign of Queen Anne - A.G. Matthews
  • The Controversy concerning Free Admission to the Lord's Supper 1652-1660 - Wilfred W. Biggs
  • From the Guestwick Church Book 1692-1732
  • Philip Doddridge's Letters to Samuel Clark - Geoffrey F. Nuttall
  • Correspondence

Volume 17

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  • Editorial
  • Dr. Albert Peel and Historical Studies - Norman Sykes
  • New Light on Philip Doddridge. Notes towards a new Biography
  • The Status of Doddridge's Academy
  • Two Doddridge Letters
  • Philip Doddridge's Library
  • Reviews - Geoffrey F. Nuttall

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  • Editorial
  • Alexander James Grieve
  • Vavasor Powell and the Protectorate - R. Tudor Jones
  • The Controversy concerning Kneeling in the Lord's Supper—after 1604 - Wilfred W. Biggs
  • Ordination Sermons 1697-1849 - Geoffrey F. Nuttall

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  • Editorial
  • Liturgical Reform in Nineteenth-Century English Congregationalism
  • The Writings of Richard Bancroft and the Brownists - Robert S. Paul
  • John Durie's Sponsors
  • Lists of Poor Ministers c. 1785
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries - C.E.S.
  • Accounts

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  • Editorial
  • Congregationalism and the "Hungry Forties" - F.R. Salter
  • Squire Baker of Wattisfield - Geoffrey F. Nuttall
  • Congregationalism in Madagascar in the last hundred years
  • Our Contemporaries
  • Late Eighteenth-Century Dissent In Surrey
  • Recent Publications of Members
  • Also Received

Volume 18

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  • Editorial
  • The First Free Church Hymnal (1583)
  • Stepney Meeting: The Pioneers
  • Some Congregational Relations With The Labour Movement - Stephen H. Mayor
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • The Beginnings of Puritanism in a Country Town - J.W.F. Hill
  • Isaac Watts' Guide To Prayer - John H. Taylor
  • John Reynolds 1740-1803 - Irene M. Fletcher
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries - E.W. Dawr

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  • Editorial
  • The Savoy Declaration of 1658 and To-day
  • The Attack on Nonconformists in Exeter after the Withdrawal of the Declaration of Indulgence - Allan Brockett
  • Matthew Wilks 1746-1820 - W. Salmon
  • The Cotton End Congregational Academy, 1840-74 - H.G. Tibbutt
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • An Eighteenth-Century Country Minister - Kenneth W. Wadsworth
  • Letters from Ed1nund Bohun to the Dean of St. Paul's, 1674-6 - I.G. Philip
  • Notes on Our Contemporaries
  • The Cotton End Academy Students
  • The City Temple - Whence?
  • Reviews
  • Obituary Notes: Dr. Frederick L. Fagley - Ralph F.G. Calder
  • Obituary Notes: F.W.P. Harris - G.F. Nuttall

Volume 19 (1960-1964)

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  • Editorial
  • The Yorkshire Puritan Movement, 1603-1640 - John Newton, Ph.D.
  • The Bicentenary of 1662 - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • Congregational Church Records (List 1)
  • The Foundation of Stonehouse Independent Chapel - C. Edwin Welch, M.A.
  • Sources for Congregational Church History - H. G. Tibbutt, F.R.Hist.S.
  • The Dictionary of National Biography
  • Selections from the Fathers: I. Robert Browne (a)
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries

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  • Editorial
  • Congregationalism: A Long View by Ralph F. G. Calder, M.A., B.D.
  • The James Forbes Library, Gloucester
  • Needy Congregational Ministers in the West, c.1676-8 - I. G. Philip, M.A.
  • The Evans List: The Hidden Neal List by Roger Thomas, M.A.
  • The Evans List: Queries on Sussex by N. Caplan, M.A
  • Congregational Church Records (List 2)
  • Letters Incidental to Samuel Say's Call to Westminster, 1734 (Part I) - B. Cozens-Hardy, M.A., F.S.A.
  • Joseph Parker's United Congregational Church - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • Selections from the Fathers : Robert Browne (b)
  • Our Contemporaries
  • Reviews

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  • Introduction by John Huxtable, M.A.
  • Uniformity and Nonconformity - Wilfred W. Biggs, M.Th.
  • Church and State - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • Reordination and the Ministry by Ronald Bocking, M.Th.
  • Liturgy and Ceremony - David Dews, B.A.

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  • Editorial
  • The Congregationalism of Henry Jacob - John von Rohr, B.D., Ph.D.
  • Selections from the Fathers: Henry Jacob
  • An Eighteenth Century Young Congregationalist - William J. Brown, M.A.
  • Our Contemporaries
  • Letters Incidental to Samuel Say's Call to Westminster, 1734 (Part II) - B. Cozens-Hardy, D.L., M.A., F.S.A.
  • The Fundamental Principle of the London Missionary Society (Part I) - Irene M. Fletcher
  • The Turvey and Ongar Academy - H. G. Tibbutt, F.R.Hist.S., F.S.A.
  • Thomas Phipson-An Independent Settler in Natal, 1849 - R. N. Currey, M.A.
  • Congregational Church Records (List 3)
  • Lyon Turner's Original Records: Notes and Identifications V - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Reviews

19.4 (May 1963) - Download complete issue View in PDF format pdf

  • Editorial
  • A. G. Matthews—A Tribute by Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Roll of Members
  • Philip Doddridge on the Method of Ordination - F. W. P. Harris, M.A., B.Litt.
  • The Lean Years of Sussex Nonconformity - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • The Fundamental Principle of the London Missionary Society (Part II) - Irene M. Fletcher
  • James Forbes Library - Thelma Smith, M.A., A.L.A.
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries
  • Histories of Congregational Churches, 1960-62

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  • Editorial
  • The Lord's Supper in the Teaching of the Separatists - Stephen H. Mayor, M.A., B.D., Ph.D.
  • The Fundamental Principle of the London Missionary Society (Part Ill) - Irene M. Fletcher . . .
  • Histories of Congregational Churches, 1961-63
  • The Turvey and Ongar Congregational Academy (Part 11) - H. G. Tibbutt, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S.
  • Notes on the Holy Communion, 1842 - John H. Taylor
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • The Congregational Society for Spreading the Gospel in England, 1797-1809 - Ralph F.G. Calder, M.A., B.D.
  • Calamy's Visit to Scotland in 1717 - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • Blomfield Street: Mission House and Congregational Library - Irene M. Fletcher and John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • A Legacy to the Church at Launceston - C. Edwin Welch, M.A.
  • A 1672 Licence—Southampton
  • Selections from the Fathers: Henry Barrow
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries
  • A Note on the Ejected Ministers in Wales - Geoffrey F. Nuttall M.A., D.D.

Volume 20

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  • Editorial
  • R. W. Dale and Nineteenth-Century Thought by Stephen H. Mayor, M.A., B.D., Ph.D.
  • Puritan Names and the Roots of Nonconformity - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • London Congregational Churches since 1850 - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • MS. Sermons and Letters by John Owen and others in the Library of New College, London - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Handlist of the Works of John Owen, with locations - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Congregationalist Records in the London County Record Office: A Preliminary Survey - C. A. McLaren, B.A.
  • Congregational Church Records (List 4)
  • Reviews
  • Histories of Congregational Churches
  • Our Contemporaries

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  • Editorial
  • Religious Toleration and Liberalism in Tudor England - A. G. Dickens, M.A., D.Lit.
  • Congregationalists and Presbyterians in Nineteenth Century Liverpool - Ian Sellers, B.Litt., M.A.
  • Congregational Church Records (List 5)
  • Excerpts from Doddridge's Confession of Faith
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • The Difference between Congregational and Presbyterian—Some New England Facets - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • Early Separatist Burial Practice - James Hitchcock, M.A., Ph.D.
  • Rotherham College, 1871 - J. S. Perkins, M.A.
  • Salter's Box-Papers belonging to a Hammersmith Church Secretary - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • The Bedford Congregational Academy - H. G. Tibbutt, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S.
  • Histories of Congregational Churches
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries

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  • Editorial
  • Philip Doddridge and 'the Care of all the Churches'; a study in oversight - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Taunton Church Covenant, 1654 - Charles E. Surmall, M.A., F.R.Hist.S.
  • The Welsh Independents - Glynmor John, M.A.
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • The Thread of Disruption : Some Nineteenth Century Churches in Eastern England - Clyde Binfield, M.A., Ph.D.
  • Pattern of Change - H. Gordon Tibbutt, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S., .
  • Henry Walter: A Seventeenth Century Minister at Newport - Trevor Watts
  • Histories of Congregational Churches
  • The Problem of Smith's Pews - Roger Kenrick
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • C.H.S., Constitution
  • Some Congregational Pathfinders in the Ecumenical Movement by Norman Goodall, M.A., D.Phil.
  • "Queen Anne's Dead! " - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Archives at Cheshunt College - Stephen Orchard, B.A., & C. Edwin Welch, M.A.
  • Infant's Friend Society
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries

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  • Editorial
  • Ordination Among Us - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • John Traske (1585-1636) and London Puritanism - B. R. White, M.A., D.Phil.
  • Philip Doddridge on Sir John Doddridge by John Creasey, M.A., A.L.A.
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries

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  • Chapels in Crisis by Clyde Binfield, M.A., Ph.D.
  • The Beginnings of Old Meeting, Bedworth by Geoffrey F. Nuttall M.A., D.D.

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  • Editorial
  • Philip Doddridge and Charges of Arianism - F. W. P. Harris, M.A., B.Litt.
  • The Undoubted Privilege of Christian Communities: A Note from the Congregational Fund Board Minutes - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • Gashmu saith it: Captain Jonathan Scott to Mr. Thomas Wilson - Charles E. Surman, M.A., F.R.Hist.S.
  • William Wroth Advowson - T. Watts
  • Our Contemporaries
  • The Resignation of George Gogerty, 1850 - K. Wood
  • Extracts from the Rules of the Craven Chapel Book Society
  • Congregational Church Records (List 6)
  • Histories of Congregational Churches
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • Francis Holcroft - H. G. Tibbutt, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S.
  • The Warden Papers by Irene M. Fletcher
  • Congregational Records in the Greater London Record Office: an Int«im Report by Alison Reeve

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  • Editorial
  • The Harrisons of Skipton - W. Gordon Robinson, M.A., B.D., Ph.D.
  • Nonconformists in Parliament, 1661-1689 - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Congregational Church Records (List 7)
  • Reviews
  • Our Contemporaries

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  • Editorial
  • Twilight of Puritanism - Erik R. Routley, M.A., B.D., D.Phil.
  • Chapel Histories Received
  • Covenant Declaration and Rules of a Sussex Village Church - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • Our Contemporaries
  • The Anglican Prayer Book and the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion - Alan Harding, B.A.
  • Some John Pye Smith Letters - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • Growth and Decay (Letters on Castle Dorrington and Hackney)

Volume 21

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  • Thomas Binney and Congregationalism's Special Mission' - Clyde Binfield, M.A., Ph.D.
  • Barzillai Quaife (1798-1873) - Lindsay Lockyer, M.A., B.D., Ph.D.
  • Autograph Letters collected - Thomas Raffles - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • The Survival of the Church Meeting (1691-1901) - John H. Taylar, B.D.
  • George Vinter: A Seventeenth Century Weather-cock? - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • Philip Doddridge on Elders' Duties
  • Reviews
  • Glass Slides in Public Custody
  • Our Contemporaries

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  • Editorial
  • In Defence of Dissent: the Independent Divines on Church Government - Tai Liu, Ph.D.
  • Rowland Hill and the Rodborough Connexion, 1771-1833 - Geoffrey F. Nuttall, M.A., D.D.
  • The Countess versus Methodism versus Independency - B. Cozens-Hardy, D.L., M.A., F.S.A.
  • A Note on the Conder Family - Margaret Spufjord, M.A., Ph.D.
  • Reviews

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  • Editorial
  • A Forgotten Thread in Congregational History: The Calvinistic Methodists - Edwin Welch, M.A., Ph. D., F.S.A.
  • Cavendish Theological College (1860-63): Joseph Parker's Experiment in Ministerial Trainmg - R. R. Turner, M.A.
  • Young Men in the Church (Clifton Road, Brighton, 1875-87) - N. Caplan, M.A.
  • The Agonies of an Election of Deacons at Above Bar, Southampton (1805) - John H. Taylor, B.D.
  • Our Contemporaries
  • Reviews
  • Index to Volume XXI
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