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Puritanism and Commonwealth period

Bolam, C.G. and Goring, Jeremy ‘English Presbyterian beginnings’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.29-46

Burgess, Walter H. ed. ‘A document by a member [Thomas Brewer 1620] of the Pilgrim Fathers’ Church now first published’ TUHS 2:2 (1920) 44-48

Surman, Charles E. ‘The Presbyterian Classical system 1646-1660’ TUHS 10:4 (1954) 193-202

Williams, J. Arnold ‘The Nottingham Presbyterian Classis [1656-60]’ TUHS 8:4 (1946) 166-171


Persecution

Bolam, C. Gordon ‘The Ejection of 1662 and its consequences for the Presbyterians in England’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) 184-195

Bolam, C.G. and Goring, Jeremy ‘Presbyterians in separation: the cataclysm’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.73-92

Caplan, N. ‘The numerical strength of nonconformity 1669-76; Sussex’ TUHS 13:1 (1963) 13-18

Goring, Jeremy ‘Some neglected aspects of the Great Ejection of 1662’ TUHS 13:1 (1963) 1-8

Kenworthy, Fred ‘From authority to freedom in church life: the Act of Uniformity and Unitarian dissent’ TUHS 12:4 (1962) 141-154

Montgomery, R. M. ‘An old pamphlet [about the Conventicle Act in Suffolk, 1670]’ TUHS 2:2 (1920) 33-42

Nuttall, Geoffrey; Thomas, Roger; Whitehorn, R. D.: Short, Harry Lismer The Beginnings of Nonconformity (London, James Clarke and Co, 1964) [The Hibbert Lectures]

Short, Harry Lismer ‘The great ejection and its consequences’ Commemorating the ‘Great Ejection’ 1662-1962 (Midland Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, 1962) pp.18-26

Thomas, Roger ‘Presbyterians, Congregationals and the Test and Corporation Acts’ TUHS 11:4 (1958) 117-127

Thomas, Roger ‘A 1686 indulgence and its licences’ TUHS 12:1 (1959) 41-42

Thomas, Roger ‘Comprehension and indulgence’ in Geoffrey Nuttall and Owen Chadwick From uniformity to unity 1662-1962 (London, SPCK, 1962)

Thomas, Roger ‘The rise of the reconcilers’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.46-72

Turner, G. Lyon Original records of early Nonconformity under persecution and indulgence 3 volumes (London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911)

Wykes, David L. ‘Religious Dissent and the penal laws: an explanation of business success?’ History 75 (1990)

Wykes, David L. ‘James II’s religious indulgence of 1687 and the early organisation of Dissenters: the building of the first nonconformist meeting house in Birmingham’ Midland History 16 (1991) 86-102 [covers most of England, not just Birmingham]

Wykes, David L. ‘”To let the memory of these men dye is injurious to posterity”: Edmund Calamy’s Account of the Ejected ministers’ in Swanson, R. N. ed The Church retrospective (Boydell Press for The Ecclesiastical History Society, 1997) [Studies in Church History 33]


Toleration

‘A list of West Country divines [Exeter Assembly 1731]’ TUHS 2:3 (1921) 109-111

‘List of London nonconformist ministers 1689’ TUHS 2:2 (1920) 42-43

Barlow, Richard Burgess Citizenship and conscience: a study in the theory and practice of religious toleration in the eighteenth century (Oxford University Press, 1965)

Gordon, Alexander Freedom after Ejection: a review (1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformity in England and Wales (Manchester, University Press, 1917) [county survey of the early years of Nonconformity following the ‘Toleration Act’ (1689). The volume has a very useful biographical and place index.]

Gordon, Alexander Cheshire Classis Minutes 1691-1745 (London, The Chiswick Press, 1919) [contains a very useful biographical index]

Gordon, Alexander ‘English Presbyterianism’ Christian Life (15 December 1888) 597 [Gordon’s disputed thesis re English Presbyterian polity]

Goring, Jeremy ‘Calvinism in decline’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) 184-195

Holt, Anne ‘Minutes of the Warrington Classis 1719-1722’ TUHS 7:1 (1939) 12-17

Kenworthy, Fred ‘The Toleration Act of 1689’ TUHS 7:1 (1939) 18-30

Micklewright, F. H. Amphlett ‘A footnote to the Happy Union of 1690’ TUHS 8:1 (1943) 27-34

Mullett, C. F. ‘The legal position of English Protestant Dissenters. 1689-1767’ Virginia Law Review 22 (1936) 397-398

Nuttall, Geoffrey F. ‘”The sun-shine of liberty”: the Toleration Act and the ministry’ The journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 4:4 (June 1989) 239-255

Ramsbottom, John D. ‘Presbyterians and ‘partial conformity’ in the Restoration Church of England’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 43:2 (April 1992) 249-270

Short, Harry Lismer ‘The gesture of the minister at the Lord’s Supper [Macclesfield] TUHS 9:1 (1947) 28-34

Spalding, James C. ‘The demise of English Presbyterianism 1660-1760’ Church History 28 (March 1959) 63-83

Stromberg, R. N. Religious liberalism in eighteenth century England Oxford, 1954)

Surman, Charles E. ‘[Letters of London Presbyterian Ministers’] TUHS 9:4 (1950) 222-225

Thomas, Roger ‘A curious discrepancy in the Heads of Agreement, 1691’ TUHS 10:3 (1953) 173

Thomas, Roger ‘The difference between Congregational and Presbyterian in the chapel building age’ Studies in the Puritan tradition (Congregational and Presbyterian Historical Societies, 1964) pp. 28-40

Thomas, Roger ‘Parties in nonconformity’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.93-112

Thomas, Roger ‘Comprehension and indulgence’ in Owen Chadwick and Geoffrey F. Nuttall eds. From uniformity to unity 1662-1962 (1962) pp.189-253

Toulmin, Joshua An historical view of the state of Protestant Dissenters in England, and of the progress of free enquiry and religious liberty from the Revolution to the accession of Queen Anne (London, 1814) [covers the period 1689-1702. Includes as appendices 1.text of ‘Heads of Agreement’ and 2. biographical details of students at early Dissenting Academies]

Williams, George Hunston ‘The religious background of the idea of a loyal opposition’ Robertson, D. B. ed. Voluntary Associations (Richmond, 1966) pp. 55-89, 402-8

Wykes, David L. ‘”The settling of meetings and the preaching of the Gospel” the development of the Dissenting interest 1690-1715’ The Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 5:3 (October 1993) 127-145

Wykes, David L. ‘The Tercentenary of the Toleration Act of 1689: a cause for celebration?’ in Furcha, E. J. Papers from the 1989 international symposium on truth and tolerance, McGill University [ARC Supplement 4, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University] (Montreal, 1990)

Wykes, David L. ‘After the Happy Union: Presbyterians and Independents in the Provinces’ in Swanson, R. N. ed. Unity and diversity in the church (Oxford, Blackwell’s for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1996) [Studies in Church History 32] pp.283-295

Wykes, David L. ‘After the Happy Union; Presbyterians and Independents in the Provinces’ in R. N. Swanson ed. Unity and diversity in the church pp.283-296 (1996) [Studies in Church History]


The Salters’ Hall and Trinitarian Controversies, the Arian movement in Dissent

‘List of west country divines’ [Exeter Assembly ordinations] TUHS 2:3 (1921)

Brockett, Allan Nonconformity in Exeter 1650-1875 (Manchester University Press, 1962)

Colligan, J. Hay The Arian movement in England (Manchester, 1913)

Colligan, J. Hay ‘English Presbyterian trust deeds’ The Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society 1:2 (May 1915) 52

Davis, T. W. ed. Committee for the repeal of the Test Acts London Record Society, 1978

Ferguson, J. P. An eighteenth century heretic: Dr Samuel Clarke (Kineton, The Roundwood Press, 1976)

Gordon, Alexander ‘The story of Salters’ Hall’ Addresses biographical and historical (London, The Lindsey Press, 1922) pp.123-156

Goring, Jeremy ‘Calvinism in decline’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) pp.204-211

Griffiths, Olive .M. Religion and learning: a study of English Presbyterian thought from the Bartholomew ejections (1662) to the foundation of the Unitarian movement (Cambridge, 1935)

Johansen-Berg, J. ‘Arian or Arminian?’ The Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society of England 14 (1969) 35-58

Nuttall, Geoffrey ‘Why did the English Presbyterians become Unitarians?’ Miscellanea Anglo-Belgica (Leiden, Sir Thomas Browne Institute, 1987) pp.7-17

Powicke, F. J. ‘Arianism and the Exeter Assembly’ Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society 7, 34-43

Powicke, F. J. ‘The Salters’ Hall controversy’ Congregational Historical Society Transactions 7:2 (1916) 110-124

Powicke, Fred W. ‘Apology for the nonconformist Arians of the 18th century’ TUHS 1:2 (1917) 101-128

Richey, Russell E. The origins of English Unitarianism (Ph.D dissertation, Princetown University, 1970; Ann Arbor, University Microfilms) Richey, Russell E. ‘Did the English Presbyterians become Unitarian?’ Church History 42 (1973) 58-71

Sell, Alan P. F. ‘Presbyterianism in eighteenth-century England: the doctrinal dimension’ The Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 4:6 (May 1990) 352-386

Sell, Alan P. F. ‘A little friendly light: the candour of Bourn, Taylor and Towgood’ The Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 4:9 (December 1991) 517-540; 4:10 (May 1992) 580-613 Samuel Bourn the younger 1689-1754, John Taylor 1694-1761, Micaijah Towgood 1700-1792

Sell, Alan P. F. ‘Arminians, Deists, and Reason’ Faith and Freedom 33:1 (Autumn 1979) 19-31

Thomas, Roger ‘Doddridge and liberalism in religion’ Nuttall, Geoffrey F. ed. Philip Doddridge (London, 1951) pp.122-153

Thomas, Roger ‘The Non-Subscription Controversy amongst Dissenters in 1719: the Salters’ Hall Debate” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 4 (1953) 162-186

Thomas, Roger ‘Presbyterians in transition’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) 195-204 [I have a note that this was in Historical Journal not Hibbert Journal]

Thomas, Roger ‘Presbyterians in transition’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp. 113-174

Wiles, Maurice F. Archetypal heresy: Arianism through the centuries (Oxford, Calrendon Press, 1996) pp. 134-156 [‘English Presbyterianism’s “Insidious tendency to Arianism”]


The Arian movement in the Church of England

Ferguson, J. P. An eighteenth century heretic: Dr Samuel Clarke (Kineton, The Roundwood Press, 1976) [detailed bibliography]

Greig, Martin ‘The reasonableness of Christianity? Gilbert Burnet and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 44:4 (October 1993) 631-651

Hutton, Sarah ‘The neoplatonic roots of Arianism: Ralph Cudworth and Theophilus Gale’ in Szczucki, Lech ed. Socinianism and its role in the culture of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries (Warsaw-Lodz, 1983)

Wiles, Maurice F. Archetypal heresy: Arianism through the centuries (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996) pp. 62-133 [chapter 4 ‘The rise and fall of British Arianism’]


Subscription Controversy within Church of England leading to secession of Theophilus Lindsey

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘The subscription issue in British parliamentary politics, 1772-79’ Parliamentary History VII (1988) 45-50

Fitzpatrick, Martin ‘Latitudinarianism at the parting of the ways? A suggestion’ Walsh, John Haydon, Colin and Taylor, Steven eds. The Church of England c.1689-c.1833 from Toleration to Tractarianism (Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.209-227 [about the case of Archdeacon Blackburne]

Stephens, John ‘The London ministers and subscription 1772-1779’ Enlightenment and Dissent (1982) 43-72


Rational Dissent

Ditchfield, Grayson M. Some aspects of Unitarianism and radicalism, 1760-1810 (Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge, 1968)

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘The Parliamentary struggle over the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 1787-1790’ English Historical Review 89 (1974) 551-57

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘Anti-trinitarianism and toleration in late eighteenth century Briish politics: the unitarian petition of 1792’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42 (1991) 39-67

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘”How narrow will the limits of this toleration appear?” Dissenting petitions to parliament, 1772-1773’ in Taylor, Stephen and Wykes, D. L. eds. Parliament and Dissent (London, Parliamentary History Trust, 2005)

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘Dissent and toleration: Lord Stanhope’s Bill of 1789’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 29 (1978) 57-59

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘Unitarians and philanthropy 1760-1810’ TUHS 21:4 (1998) 254-268

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘English Rational Dissent and philanthropy, c. 1760-c.1810’ in Cunningham, Hugh and Innes, Joanna ed.s Charity, philanthropy and reform: from the 1690s to 1850 (Macmillan, forthcoming)

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘Incompatible with the very name of Christian’: English Catholics and Unitarians in the age of Milner’ Recusant History 25:1 (May 2000) 53-73

Donnelly, F. K. ‘Joseph Towers and the collapse of Rational Dissent’ Enlightenment and Dissent 6 (1987) 31-40

Fitzpatrick, Martin ‘Rational Dissent in the late eighteenth century with particular reference to the growth of toleration ‘ (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1982)

Fitzpatrick, Martin ‘Rational Dissent and the Enlightenment’ Faith and Freedom 38:2 (Summer 1985) 83-101

Fitzpatrick, Martin ‘Varieties of candour: English and Scottish style’ Enlightenment and Dissent 7 (1988) 35-56

Fitzpatrick, Martin ‘Heretical religion and radical political ideas in late eighteenth-century England’ in Hellmuth Eckhart ed. The transformation of political culture: England and Germany in the late eighteenth century Oxford, 1990) 339-372

Fitzpatrick, Martin ‘The enlightenment, politics and some Scottish and English comparisons’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.64-98

Gascoigne, John ‘Anglican Latitudinarianism, Rational Dissent and political radicalism in the late eighteenth century’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp. 219-240 [revision of article in History 1986]

Goring, Jeremy ‘The break-up of the old dissent’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.175-218

Goring, Jeremy ‘Young Tom Paine: Wesleyan Methodist or Rational Dissenter?’ TUHS 23:1 472- 478.

Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

James, Marion E. Stand fast in liberty: a study of Unitarian politics in the reign of George III (Ph.D dissertation, Radcliffe College, 1955) list of heterodox congregations with their ministers

McCalman, Iain ‘New Jerusalem: prophecy, Dissent and radical culture in England, 1786-1830’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.312-335

Philp, Mark ‘Rational religion and political radicalism’ Enlightenment and Dissent 4 (1985) 35-46

Prest, William ‘Law, lawyers and Rational Dissent’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.1669-192

Saunders, Alan ‘The state as highwayman: from candour to rights’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.241-271

Seed, John The role of Unitarianism in the formation of liberal culture, 1755-1851: a social history (Ph.D thesis, University of Hull, 1981)

Seed, John ‘Gentlemen Dissenters: the social and political meanings of Rational Dissent in the 1770s and 1780s’ The Historical Journal 28:2 (1985) 299-325

Seed, John ‘Theologies of power: Unitarianism and the social relations of religious discourse, 1800-1850’ R. J. Morris ed. Class, power and social structure in British nineteenth-century towns (Leicester University Press, 1986 pp. 108-56

Seed, John ‘”A set of men powerful in many things”: Rational Dissent and political opposition in England 1770-1790’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp. 140-168 [revision of his article in Historical Journal, 1985]

Stewart M. A. ‘Rational Dissent in early eighteenth-century Ireland’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.42-63

Tapper, Alan ‘Priestley in politics, progress and moral theology’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.272-286

Taylor, Stephen and Wykes, D. L. eds. Parliament and Dissent (London, Parliamentary History Trust, 2005)

Thomas, D. O. ‘Rational Dissent and the foundations of liberalism’ Faith and Freedom 39:1 (Spring 1986) 14-23

Waterman, A. M. C. ‘The nexus between theology and political doctrine in Church and Dissent’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.193-218

Webb, Robert K. ‘The emergence of Rational Dissent’ Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp. 12-41

Webb, Robert K. ‘Rational Piety’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.287-312

Wykes, David ‘The contribution of The Dissenting Academy to the emergence of Rational Dissent’ in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.99-139


The Rise of Organised Unitarianism

Andrews, Stuart Unitarian radicalism: political rhetoric 1770-1814 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘A Unitarian view of English Dissent in 1807’ TUHS 18:2 (April 1984) 1-16

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘Anti-trinitarianism and toleration in late eighteenth century British politics: the Unitarian petition of 1792’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42 (1991) 39-67

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘Public and Parliamentary support for the Unitarian petition of 1792’ Enlightenment and Dissent 12 (1993) 28-48

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a new name: from Presbyterian to Unitarian’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.219-235

Webb, Robert K. ‘The Unitarian background’ in Smith, Barbara ed. Truth, liberty, religion: essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College (Oxford, Manchester College, 1986) pp. 1-30

Wright, Richard A review of the missionary life and labours of Richard Wright written by himself (London, D. Eaton, 1824)


The Unitarian Controversy 1825-1844

Parliamentary debates on the Dissenters’ Chapels Bill 7 & 8 Vict. Ch. 35 A.D. MDCCCXLIV (London, John Chapman, 1844)

‘Petition to Parliament promoted by the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Association, 1833’ TUHS 6:1 (1935) 72-73

Blazier, Stella M. ‘The Wolverhampton Case’ (MA thesis, CNAA, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, 1985)

[Hadfield, George] The Manchester Socinian Controversy with introductory remarks and an appendix (London, 1825) [Written from the anti-Unitarian position. An appendix lists chapels where it is claimed that orthodox endowments have been appropriated by Unitarians]

Hankinson, Frederick ‘Dissenters Chapels Act’ TUHS 8:2 (1944) 52-57

James, T. S. The history of the litigation and legislation respecting Presbyterian Chapels and Charities in England and Ireland between 1816 and 1849 (London, Hamilton Adams and Co, 1867) [Written and compiled from an orthodox viewpoint. Contains list of Nonconformist congregations between 1717 and 1729. see also John Creasy Index to the John Evans List of Dissenting Congregations and Ministers in Dr Williams’s Library (1964)]

Long, Arthur J. ‘What did Mr. Gladstone say in 1844 – the Dissenters’ Chapels Act after 150 years’ TUHS 20:4 (1994) 233-257; 21:1 (1995) 43-55

Long, Arthur J. The Lady Hewley Dispute 1830-42 (York, St. Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel, 1989)

McLachlan, Herbert ‘Manchester Socinian Controversy’ TUHS 2:2 (1920) 1-8 and McLachlan, Herbert ‘The Manchester Socinian Controversy’ The Story of a Nonconformist Library (Manchester University Press, 1923) pp. 134-151

Montgomery, R. Mortimer ‘The significance of the Dissenters Chapels Act of 1844’ TUHS 8:2 (1944) 45-51

Ruston, Alan ‘Dissenters’ Chapels Bill – a contemporary account’ TUHS 20:4 (1994) 267-270

Ruston, Alan ‘When did the Presbyterian Chapels become Unitarian? The Dissenters’ Chapels Bill petitions’ TUHS 19:1 (1987) 38-40

Ruston, Alan ‘W. E. Gladstone and the Dissenters’ Chapels Bill’ TUHS 20:4 (1994) 258-266

Schulman, Frank ‘From tolerance to liberty: the Trinity Act to the Dissenters’ Chapels Act of 1844′ Faith and Freedom 48:2 (Autumn and Winter 1994) 123-132

Schulman, Frank ‘Blasphemous and wicked’ – the Unitarian struggle for equality, 1813-1844 (Oxford, Harris Manchester College, 1997)

Schulman, Jacob Frank The Anti-Trinitarian struggle for equality 1813-1844 [D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1994]

Sellers, Ian ‘The Risley case’ TUHS 16:4 (1978) 176-187

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a new name: theological controversies’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.235-252

Short, K. R. M. ‘London’s General Body of Protestant Ministers: its disruption in 1836’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 24 (1973) 377-93

Tindall, Philip Noble ‘Roman Catholics and Unitarians: an account of reciprocal help and comfort’ TUHS 20:3 (1993) 177-186; 20:4 (1994) 235-252

Waller, Ralph ‘The Liverpool Controversy’ Faith and Freedom 47:1 (Spring and Summer 1994) 39-44

Wicksteed, Charles ‘The Liverpool Controversy of 1839′ The Theological Review 14 (1877)

Whittaker, William ‘The open-trust myth’ TUHS 1:3 (1918) 303-314


The Priestley-Martineau transition

Boggs, W. Arthur ‘Without dogma, without creed, English Unitarianism during the first two thirds of the nineteenth century’ TUHS 13:4 (1966) 141-154 [includes bibliography of sermons preached before the B & FUA] [also published in Crane Review 6:3 (1964) 135-142]

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Priestley and Martineau’ Hibbert Journal 60:3 (April 1962) pp.211-219

Webb, Robert K. ‘The faith of nineteenth-century Unitarians: a curious incident’ Helmstadter, Richard J. and Lightman, Bernard Victorian faith in crisis: essay in continuity and change in nineteenth century religious belief (London, Macmillan, 1990) pp.187-222


Nineteenth Century

Morris, R. J. ‘The Unitarian view of fifteen periodicals in 1834’ Victorian periodicals review 18 (1972) 31-2

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a new name: the age of Martineau Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.252-274

Schulman, J. Frank ‘Unitarian Christianity prior to 1960 [Martineau and Channing]’ The Unitarian Universalist Christian 56 (2001) 23-45

Webb, Robert K. ‘Views of Unitarianism from Halley’s comet [1835-1910]’ TUHS 18:4 (1986) 180-195

Webb, Robert K. ‘The limits of religious liberty: theology and criticism in nineteenth-century England’ in Richard Helmstadter ed. Freedom and religion in the nineteenth century (Stanford University Press, 1997) pp.120-149

Zastoupil, Lynn 1953- ‘Defining Christians, Making Britons: Rammohun Roy and the Unitarians’ Victorian Studies 44:2 (Winter 2002) Indiana University Press


Twentieth Century

‘Roll of Honour [World War 1]’ TUHS 2:4 (1922) 167

War memorial [World War 1 at Essex Hall] TUHS 2:3 (1921) 112-114

Bowie, W. Copeland Liberal religious thought at the beginning of the twentieth century (paper at 1901 IARF Congress)

Foy Society Survey Group A census of Unitarian congregations in Britain (London, 1967)

Head, Geoffrey Unitarianism in Manchester 1930-1988 – decline and adaptation (Manchester, 1991)

Long, Arthur ‘Unitarian Thought in the Twentieth Century Part 2’, TUHS 23:1 (2003) 445- 464.

Mellone, Sydney Herbert Unitarian Christianity in the twentieth century (London, Lindsey Press, 1951)

Ruston, Alan ‘The principles of Unitarian Christianity’ Faith and Freedom 46:2 (Autumn 1993) 95-99

Ruston, Alan ‘Killed fighting for their country: two Unitarian ministers [E. S. Russell 1882-1917 Walter Short 1879-1917]’ TUHS 20:3 (1993) 151-160

Ruston, Alan ‘Unitarian attitudes towards World War 1’ TUHS 21:4 (1998) 269-284

Ruston, Alan ‘Protestant Nonconformist Attitudes towards the First World War’ in Sell, Alan P. F. and Cross, Anthony R. Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century (Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2003)

Sellers, Ian ‘The Pro-Boer movement in Liverpool’ TUHS 12:2 (1960) 69-84

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Presbyterians under a new name: the later story’ Bolam, C.G. and others The English Presbyterians: from Elizabethan puritanism to modern Unitarianism (London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968) pp.274-286

Tayler, Robert From heaven to hell and back again: an autobiography (Peter Tayler, Croydon, c. 1990]


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