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1.1
1.2
Editorial
From the Secretary
Items from the Postbag
The Congregational Memorial Hall Library - John B. Wilcox
The Importance of History to Congregationalism - Alan Argent
Review
History of Hymns in "Congregational Praise"
Editorial
From the Secretary
Items from the Postbag
Our Congregational Heritage - Job Orton
Records Discovered: Cuckfield (Sussex) Congregational Church - Mr.Neil Caplan, M.A.
The Story of the Federation
Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Church Treasures
Editorial
From the Secretary
From the Postbag
Siting of Memerial Hall Library
A Short History of Kilainham Congregational Church, Dublin - J.D. Hazlett
The Story of Beilhalog - T. Watts
Beginning of Congregationalism in Breconshire
Beilhalog or Beilihaulog - the Sunny Pasturage
Howell Powell of Maesyclettwr. The First Pastor
Howell Powell Emigrates to New Jersey 1712 - Trevor Watts
James Scott and the Heckmondwicke Academy
Church Treasures. Mr Steil replies
An End to Friendship
A WIndows into the Past - Miss D.V. Cooper
George Whitefield's Chairs at Dursley and Rodburgh Cong. (Now U.R.C.) Churches - David Evans
Congregational Library - J.D. Gowlett
1.6
Editorial - The International Congregational Fellowship Bangor - July 1981
Snowdon Summit and Argentina
The Circle Grows
Visit to Chapel Edeneser, Rhos=Meirch
The Chiselhurst Thanksgiving
Dr Arvel Steece and the ICC 1871 to ICF 1981
The Chairman's Address and the I.C.F. Broadcast Service
From the Secretary
From the Treasurer
From the Postbag
The Castle Gate Congregational Church (Congregational Centre) Nottingham, Stained Glass Windows
Bookstall
The Memorial Hall and Congregational Library, London
"Canada"
"The Mayflower" - A Definite Place in Our Congregational History?
"Islington Chapel is Under Threat"
The Changing Fortunes of a Congregational Church - The Final Chapter of an Old and Sad Story
Old Church Awaits Date When it Will be Demolished
From our Contemporaries
1.8
Editorial: Ecumania - Trevor Watts
From the Secretary
The Annual General Meeting of the Circle, Friday 13th May, 1983: Sheffield, Yorkshire
From the Treasurer - D. Morrell
The Memorial Hall and Congregational Library, London
From the Postbag
The British School at Cuckfield, Sussex (Part 1) - N. Caplan, M.A.
Korea's First Christian Martyr - Dr. E.M. Rosser
Guyana Congregational Union 1883-1983
Reviews
From Our Contemporaries
1.10
Editorial - Trevor Watts
From the Secretary - R.J. Bray
Treasurer's Report - O. Morrell
Annual General Meeting From the Postbag 1984 - R.J.Bray
From the Postbag - The Secretary
The Memorial Hall and Library, London - David Watson & Alan Argent
Bookstall - Various
The International Congregational Fellowship - David Watson
Union Chapel, Islington, London - S.R. Forster
Congregational College: An Interpretative Essay - Clyde Binfield
A Brief History of Batheaston Congregational Church - Frank Harper 33
Guyana Celebrates - David Watson
Print of Job Orton with comments - Trevor Watts
From our Contemporaries - The Secretary
Late News - The Secretary
Editorial
From the Secretary
The Annual General Meeting of the Congregational History Circle and Study Afternoon to be Held on Froday 11th May 1984
From the Postbag
Bookstall
Reviews
NSPCc Centenary
Torcross Congregational Church 1884
The London Mennonite Centre
"Those Halycon Days" A Study of Congregational Commonwealth Incumbents - Trevor Watts
From Our Contemporaries
Volume 2 (1984-1986)
Editorial
From the Secretary
From the Treasurer - David Morrell
The Annual General Meeting of the Congregational History Circle to be held on Friday 10th May 1985, in Oldham, Lancashire
From the Postbag
The 1662 Society
John Owen Society
St. Bartholomew's Day - Memorial Hall Service
The Union Chapel, Islington, London. A Progress Report
World Congregationalism - Dr R. Tudor Jones
The Origins of the International Congregational Fellowship by Dr, Harry R. Butman
The Chiselhurst Thanksgiving
Our Opportunity at Beverley - Rev. Iorwerth Jones
American Congregationalists Welcome Visitors - Arvel M. Steece
World Congregationalists to meet in 1985
An 18 Century Leaving Certificate presented to Samuel Lucas on leaving Hoverton Academy for Walsall
Sources for Congregational History
Hymn Translators Ancient and Modern
Anniversaries, Taken from the Congregational Handbook 1885
Letter from the Editor
Reviews and Letters
Home Truths
From our Contempories
Editorial
From the Secretary
From the Membership Secretary
From the Postbag
The 1662 Society
The Memorial Hall *St. BArtholomews Day Celebrations
The Revd. John Johnson 1759-1804
"The Garden of Apollos"
Sir John Bickerton Williams. Knight, Victorian Author and Congregational Apologist 1792-1855 Letter and Last Will
Review
John Wycliffe: New Publications - Marion Beales
The Council for British Archaeology's Conference on Nonconformist Chapels in Manchester and its Region
The Congretional Quarterly
Reviews
Editorial
Note from the Secretary, an Appeal and AGM notes
Secretary's Postbag, Anniversaries - E.J. Bray
Four Congregational Churches of Mile End, London - Jean Olwen Maynard
The Letters of Sir John Bickerton Williams and the Letter of the Rev. John Blackburn's letter to Sic John
Bretherton Congregational Church - Chri Demp
Tribute to Charles Edward Surman
Reviews: Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England etc.
What Happened to the Pilgrim Fathers - echoes of the I.C.F. - David Watson
Sketch of Baxters House by W.C. Wake
The Journal of Francis Tallents 1619-1708 - Trevor Watts
Editorial
The Independents in rbe Parishes of the City of London io the 1640s—"A Small lnconsiderable Companie" - Alan Argent
Robert Gentleman (1745-1795)—Minister, Tutor and Youth Leader - Trevor Watts
The Secretary's Notes and Views - Colin Price
C.H.C.: Chapel Crawl - Christitte Denwood; Financial Report - Chris Damp
Books Reviewed - Alan Argem, Yvonne Evans. Trevor Watts
Our Contemporaries - A. Argent, Y.A. Evans, T Watts
In Memoriam: Elsie D. Chamberlain, Lady Stansgate, W.H. Meyer, R. John Bray Tom Hodgson, W.C. Wake. John E. Robinson, R.O. Cambridge
Volume 3 (1993-1998) Index
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Crawl - E.C. Denwood
Recollections of Cambridge Congregationalism in the 1930s - J W Ashley Smith
enry Allon of Union Chapel, Islington - Alan Argent
Book Reviews
Obituaries
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Crawl - E.C. Denwood
The Threapwood Story - Ian Sellers
Revd Muriel Olympia Paulden MA (1892-1975) Her life and work in Toxteth, Liverpool - Derek Watson
Job Orton. the friend and biographer of Philip Doddridge; some background notes - Trevor Watts
Book Reviews
Obituary
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
ews and Views
Gendering the Deity: An Historical Survey - Brenda E. Richardson
Ealing Green and Little Church - J.W. Ashley Smith
Book Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Robert Browne: A Fair Story - P.B. Coleman
The Story of a Puritan Tract by Francis Tallents - Trevor Watts
The Tale of an Idle Fellow: Jerome K. Jerome - Alan Argent
Book Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Notes from the Secretary - Colin Price
Chapel Crawl - Christine Denwood
The Development of Henry Jacob's Ecclesiology - Christopher Damp
Thomas Gainsborough: The Congregational Inheritance - Yvonne A. Evans
How Beautiful Upon the Mountains are the Feet ..... some memories of Twentieth Century Evangelists - Trevor Watts
Obituary
Book Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Crawl - Colin Price
The Gainsborough Family in South Lincolnshire - Yvonne A. Evans
Isaac Watts 1674-1748 Measured by His Soul - Derek Watson
Samuel Martin of Westminster 1817-1778 - Brian A. Reed
Book Reviews
Obituaries
Our Contemporaries
Volume 4 (1999-2004) Index
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Tour - Peter Young
Elsie Chamberlain: The Early Years 1910-1947 - Alan Argent
John Curwen, Coward College and the Tonic Sol-fa Movement - Yvonne Evans
Some Puritan Associations with Shrewsbury - Trevor Watts
Robert Tutchin and the Beginnings of Newport Congregational Church, Isle of Wight - P.D. Hooper
A Man of the Word and the Nation. A Personal Tribute to the Rev Dr R.Tudur Jones - Richard Cleaves
Book Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Tour - Christopher Damp
Elsie Chamberlain 1947-1967 - Alan Argent
When is a Chapel no longer a Chapel? Highbury Congregational Church, Cheltenham and its First Building - A.R. Cleaves
Mary Higgs of Oldham - Peter Young
Book Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Was Oliver Cromwell the father of English Protestant Nonconformity? - Barry Coward
Elsie Chamberlain Years of Decision 1967-1973 - Alan Argent
Early Catholic Contributions to Free Church Hymnody - Derek Watson
Some Puritan Associations with Shrewsbury - Trevor Watts
Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
John Owen and Mansfield College - Elaine Kaye
Pastor Boffey's Congregational Circuit - Nigel Lemon
Elsie Chamberlain 1971-1980: On the Road - Alan Argent
Later Catholic Contributions to Free Church Hymnody - Derek Watson
Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Tour in Perth
Elsie Chamberlain 1980-1991 - Alan Argent
A Church was Born: Old Coulsdon Congregational Church 314 314 319 321 - the Early Years 1948-1958 - Harold Cocks
John Stoughton's Ms Autobiography at Dr Williams's Library - Yvonne Evans
Obituary
Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
A Very Late Obituary: The Revd Joseph Davies ( c 1844-1921) - Nigel Lemon
Margaret Stansgate - Radical Dissenter - Alan Argent
Samuel Newth's Ms Autobiography at Dr Williams's Library - Yvonne Evans
Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Volume 5 (2005-2009)
Editorial
News and Views
Some Memorials of Bernard J Snell (1856–1934) - Alan Argent
Some Reflections on Events Leading to the Formation and Early Growth of the Congregational Federation - John Wilcox
Two Great Ecumenical Congregationalists: Margaret, Lady Stansgate and Elsie Chamberlain - Janet Wootton
The Congregational History Circle—The First Twenty-Five Years - Christopher J Damp
Chronicling Nonconformity in Wales—a Review Article - Alan Argent
Obituary: Graham Michael Adams - John Travell
Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Tour - Peter Young
The Nonconformist Heyday—The Liberal Landslide of 1906 - Alan Argent
The Life of R.W.Cleaves - A.R.W.Cleaves
You too can climb a mountain: Schoolboy recollections of a non-conformist Nonconformist headmaster Reverend John Seldon Whale - Adrian Stanley
Some reflections on events leading to the formation and early growth of the Congregational Federation: Part 2 - John B Wilcox
The new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: some reflections concerning Congregational church order - Jonathan C Morgan
Book Reviews
Our Contemporaries
News and Views
Chapel Tour - Peter Young
Nonconformist Companions of Honour - John Thompson
Congregationalists and the Abolition of the Slave Trade - Alan Argent
The Life of R W Cleaves: Part Two - A R W Cleaves
Review Article: "Strikingly Alive" - Adrian Stanley
Reviews
Our Contemporaries
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Tour - P I Young
Geoffrey Nuttall: A friendship in letters - Eamon Duffy
He wants not friends that hath thy love: Geoffrey F Nuttall as scholar and friend - Alan Argent
Writing the History of Congregationalism - Alan Argent
Colin Ewart Gunton (1941–2003): Christian Theologian and Preacher of the Gospel - Robert Pope
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Tour - Peter Young
The Trials and Tribulations of Establishing a Theological Seminary - William D McNaughton
Basingstoke's Grand "Reformation Times" Bazaar 1903: Aspiring Congregationalism - Roger Ottewill
V S Pritchett, Sedbergh and Edwardian Congregationalism - Alan Argent
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Chapel Tour - Peter Young
Calvin and Congregationalism - Alan Argent
Boreland Bible and Missionary Society - W D McNaughton
The Surman Index on line - David L Wykes
Elnora and John Ferguson - Alan Argent
The Bunyan Meeting Library - Patricia Hurry
Reviews
Volume 6 (2010-2012)
Editorial
News and Views
"A Time of Joyful Anticipation": The Public Recognition of Congregational Pastors in Edwardian Hampshire - Roger Ottewill
The Glasgow Committee of the London Missionary Society 1796 to 1803 - W.D. McNaughton
Watts and his Readers - Jane Giscombe
'Tumbledown Dick': Richard Cromwell, the second Lord Protector. Thoughts towards a Reassessment - Jonathan Morgan
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence 69 1660–2010: The Restoration of 1660 and the Churches - Alan Argent
Highland College - W D McNaughton
The Regicides - Jonathan Morgan
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
The Hampton Court Conference, the King James Version and the Separatists - Alan Argent
Locals and Cosmopolitans: Congregational Pastors in Edwardian Hampshire -Roger Ottewill
The Evangelical Union Academy - W D McNaughton
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Notes from the CHS secretary
Correspondence
Life and Works with Geoffrey F Nuttall - Nigel Smith
Thomas Wadsworth (1630-76): The Making of a Platonic Dissenter - Marilyn Lewis
Wanderings—Spiritual and Physical: The Ministry of Robert Little - Gordon Campbell
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Notes from the Secretary
The CHS Visit to Carrs Lane, Birmingham - Christine Denwood
Commemorating the 1662 Ejections in 1962 - Alan Argent
Scottish Congregationalism and Itinerancy - W D McNaughton
A Postcard from Paris in September 1944 - Lesley Dean
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
The churches of the Isle of Wight during and after the Commonwealth - Paul Hooper
The Woman of the Manse: Recognising the Contribution of the Wives of Congregational Pastors in Edwardian Hampshire - Roger Ottewill
Congregationalism in Angus - Gordon A Campbell
Reviews
Index
Volume 7 (2013-2015)
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence Andrew Morton Brown of Cheltenham and a Welsh Connection - David Aldred
Congregationalism and the Young in the Edwardian Era: A Hampshire Perspective - Roger Ottewill
The Principles of Scottish Congregationalism Examined in their Historical Setting - W D McNaughton
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Notes from the Secretary
Obituaries
Elsie Chamberlain as I Knew Her - John Travell
The Historical and Contemporary Significance of Covenant in English Congregationalism, with Particular Reference to The Congregational Federation - Graham Akers
Review article: The Transformation of Congregationalism 1900–2000 - Robert Pope
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Help Needed—The Angels' Voice
Tony Benn (1925–2014)
Notes from the CHS Secretary
The EFCC Congregational Studies Conference 2014 - Trudy Kinloch
Congregationalism in the Isle of Man - Gordon A Campbell
Women and Temperance - Meegan Griffin
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Recollections and responses to 1972
The Morning after the Night Before - Richard Cleaves
James Cranbrook - Kathleen Chater
Sarah Vyrnwy Morgan: Almost a Minister - Gerard Charmley
'In the Shadow of Death:' John Foster Haigh (1901–1943) and the Free Church Faculty at Changi Camp - Neil E Allison
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
The Secretary's Reflections on the Re-burial of Richard III
A Pulpit Prince - Meegan Griffin
'A Unanimity of Feeling': Lymington Congregational Church in the Edwardian Era 1901–14 - Roger Ottewill
C Silvester Horne: Whitefield's Chapel, Congregationalism, and the Free Churches - Phillip Dunn
Mill Hill School in the Sixties - Mark Tinker
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Perthshire to Pittsburgh—The Ministry of Rev. John Campbell - Gordon A Campbell
The Atonement Controversy in the Nineteenth Century Evangelical Union and Congregational Churches of Scotland - Robert Richard
The Evangelical Mission of an Independent Lay Preacher, A J Stanley 1833–1902 - Meegan Griffin
Reviews
Index to vol 7
Volume 8 (2016-2017)
Editorial: \
News and Views
A Second Chance: The Story of Rev James Colquhoun - Gordon A Campbell
What's in a name? Almira Lee Fowler-Ormsbee-Breakspear, 1826–1899 - Meegan Griffin
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Secretary's notes - Richard Cleaves
Shakespeare and Puritanism - Michael Robertson
The Heavens were Brass: The Great Fire of London - Timothy Ellery
Laurence Lee's memoirs and his account of nonconformity in Godalming -David L Wykes
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence and Feedback
Secretary's notes Unity in Diversity—two anniversaries re-visited - Richard Cleaves
'Seditious sectaries': The Elizabeth and Jacobean underground church - Stephen Tomkins
History in Preaching - Alan Argent
'Occupying a Proud Position in the City': Winchester Congregational Church in the Edwardian Era 1901–14 - Roger Ottewill
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence Secretary's notes - Richard Cleaves
St Paul's Chapel, Hawley Road, Scenes from church life in Camden Town in the 1840s - Stephen Orchard
Congregationalism on the Island of Bute - Gordon A Campbell
Revd Henry Beresford Martin 1808–1844 - Peter Flower
A Congregational Church in Revolutionary Petrograd - Alan Argent
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Secretary's notes: Called to be a Minister of Christ and of the Church Universal Reflections on 40 years of Ministry
Richard Cleaves Eltham College: I was there; by Christopher Idle, born 1938 - Christopher Idle
Daughters of the Church - Meegan Griffin
The Revd Ernest James Thompson 1875–1973: A Congregational Minister in England and Canada - Roger Ottewill
Portraits of Eminent Dissenters—Richard Baxter - Alan Argent
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Secretary's Notes: Christian Unity Through Music— 5 'The Gathered Church' by J R Griffin - Richard Cleaves
An Unpublished Letter of Philip Doddridge - G M Ditchfield
William Benn and the Great Ejectment - David Cuckson
McClune Uffen: Minister of Dorchester Congregational Church 1891–1911 - Peter Mann
Minnie Turner and the Suffragettes in Brighton - Michelle Thomasson
Reviews
Index to Volume 8
Volume 9 (2019-)
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Called to be a Minister of Christ and of the Church Universal: Reflections on 40 years of Ministry and P T Forsyth - Richard Cleaves
'A Flourishing Cause': East Cliff Congregational Church 1901–1914 - Roger Ottewill
Mrs Ranyard and the Bible Women - Alan Argent
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Building the Anglo-American relationship—The John Robinson Memorial Church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire - Erik Goldstein
A 'Special Relationship'. The Lyman Beecher Lectures 1872–1914 - Meegan Griffin
Bible women in Aberdeen - Gordon A Campbell
'A godly honest heart'—In search of Geoffrey Nuttall and the Welsh Saints - Alan Argent
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Secretary's Notes
Prosecuting the Faith: Congregationalism in Portsmouth c.1750–1972 Part 1 - Roger Ottewill
Quietly rejoicing: the hymns of Albert F Bayly, 1901–1984; a personal tribute and reflection - Christopher Idle
English Churches in the Netherlands before 1640 - Alan Argent
Reviews
Editorial
News and Views
Correspondence
Secretary's Notes
William Thomas Stead (1849–1912): Nonconformist, New Journalist, and Social Campaigner - Philip March
A Farewell to Trumpington Street - Clyde Binfield
Prosecuting the Faith: Congregationalism in Portsmouth c1750–1972 Part 2 - Roger Ottewill
Reviews
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