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Ministerial Training

Long, Arthur ‘Ministerial training in the Unitarian tradition’ Faith and Freedom 40:2 (Summer 1987) 59-81

Sell, Alan P.F The Theological Education of the Ministry: Soundings in the British Reformed and Dissenting Traditions (Pickwick Publications, 2013)

Wykes, David L. ‘Educating students for the Unitarian ministry in the early nineteenth-century’ TUHS 26.1 (2015) 79-98

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Dissenting Academies

Burley, Stephen Hazlitt the Dissenter: Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816, Studies in Modern History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) [Chapter 2 for Hackney New College]

Davies, Dewi Eirug Hoff Ddysgedig Nyth [A history of the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen] (Swansea, John Penry Press, 1976)

Downing, Arthur Benjamin ‘Unitarian theological schools in England and Wales’ Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society 12:2 (1959) 79-85

Evans, George Eyre Antiquarian Notes (1898-1905) pp.2t5-8, 39-40, 46-7 [General Baptist Academy 1794-1820]

Gordon, Alexander ‘Early Nonconformity and education’ in Gordon, Alexander Addresses biographical and historical (London, The Lindsey Press, 1922) pp.67-92 [original edition Manchester, 1902]

Lawless, C. ‘The Dissenting Academies’ in ‘Scientific progress and religious dissent’ Block 3 Science and belief from Copernicus to Darwin (Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1974)

Lee, Stephen G. ‘Nonconformist schools under persecution 1662-1714’ TUHS 2:3 (1921) 59-64

McLachlan, Herbert ‘The Irish Academies’ TUHS 6:2 (1936) 91-102 and McLachlan, Herbert ed. Essays and Addresses (Manchester University Press, 1950) pp. 167-177

McLachlan, Herbert ‘Bridgwater Academy 1688-1756?’ TUHS 8:3 (1945) 93-97

McLachlan, Herbert ‘Dudley-Newbury Academy 1689?’-1695′ TUHS 9:2 (1948) 110-112

McLachlan, Herbert ‘Semitics in Nonconformist Academies’ McLachlan, Herbert ed. Essays and Addresses, (Manchester University Press, 1950) pp. 178-196

McLachlan, Herbert ‘Sport and recreation in Nonconformist Academies’ McLachlan, Herbert ed. Essays and Addresses (Manchester University Press, 1950) pp. 197-212

McLachlan, Herbert ‘The old Hackney College 1786-1796’ TUHS 3:3 (1925)185-205

McLachlan, Herbert English education under the Test Acts: being the history of the Non-conformist Academies 1662-1820 (Manchester University Press, 1931)

McLachlan, Herbert ‘Thomas Dixon and his academy at Whitehaven-Bolton, 1708-29 in McLachlan, Herbert ed. Essays and Addresses (Manchester University Press, 1950) pp. 131-146

Murray, Victor ‘Doddridge and eduation’ in Nuttall, Geoffrey ed. Philip Doddridge 1702-51: his contribution to English religion (London, Independent Press Ltd., 1951)

Parker, Irene Dissenting academies in England (Cambridge, Chatham Society, 1914)

Rail, Tony and Thomas, Beryl ‘Joseph Priestley’s journal while at Daventry Academy, 1754’ Enlightenment and Dissent 13 (1994) 49-113

Reid, David A. Science and pedagogy in the Dissenting Academies of enlightenment Britain (Ph.D Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999)

Roberts, H. P. ‘The history of the Presbyterian Academy Brynllywarch-Carmarthen’ TUHS 4:4 (1930) 333-364; 5:1 (1931) 24-42

Sell, A. P. F. ‘Philosophy in the eighteenth century Dissenting Academies of England and Wales’ History of Universities 11 (1992)

Smith, J. W. Ashley The birth of modern education: the contribution of the Dissenting Academies 1600-1808 (London, 1954)

Stephenson, H. W. ‘Hackney College and William Hazlitt’ TUHS 4:3 (1929) 219-247; 4:4 (1930)

Watts, Ruth ‘Revolution and reaction: “Unitarian” academies, 1780-1800 History of Education 20:4 (December 1991) 307-24

Williams, Gwyn ‘Richard Price and Carmarthen Academy’ The Price-Priestley Newsletter 4 (1980) 69

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

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Harris Manchester College, Oxford

Roll of students entered at the Manchester Academy 1786 . . . [to] 1867 (1868)

Alborn, TL The York Unitarians: theology, science, and the tensions of modern liberalism 1986 – Harvard University

Burney, Lester Cross Street Chapel Manchester and its college (Manchester, published by the author, 1983)

Bright, H. A. ‘A historical sketch of Warrington Academy’ Proceedings of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 2 (1858)

Davis, Valentine David A history of Manchester College from its foundation in Manchester to its establishment in Oxford (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1932)

Derzsi, Károly [accounts, diary, lecture notes, books in Hungarian and English while he was at Manchester New College 1872-4] Lakó, Elemér The manuscripts of the Unitarian College of Cluj/Kolzsvár in the Library of the Academy in Cluj-Napoca (Szeged, 1997) listed as entries 1392 – 1395

Ditchfield, Grayson M. ‘The early history of Manchester College’ Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1972) 81-104

Fulton, J. F. ‘The Warrington Academy (1757-1789) and its influence upon medicine and science’ Bulletin of the Institute of History of Medicine, John Hopkins University, USA 1:2 (February 1933) 49-80

Herford, C. H. ‘Memoir [of J.E.Carpenter] iv Manchester College: i. London v. Manchester College: ii. Oxford’ Herford, C. H.. James Estlin Carpenter: a memorial volume (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1929) pp. 38-92

McLachlan, Herbert Warrington Academy (Manchester, Cheetham Society 107, 1943)

Morgan, Paul Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian (1974) pp. 70-76 [Manchester College]

Nightingale, B Lancashire Nonconformity or, sketches, historical and descriptive of the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county volume 4 (1890-93) pp. 271-87

O’Brien, Padraig Warrington Academy 1757-86: its predecessors and successors (Wigan, 1989)

Parker, Joanna Manchester College: a short history, 1786-1990 (Oxford, 1990)

Porter, Dennis A catalogue of manuscripts in Harris Manchester College Oxford (Harris Manchester College, Oxford, 1998) Roll of students educated at Manchester Academy 1789-1803; Manchester College, York 1803-40; Manchester New College, Manchester 1840-53 and Manchester New College, London 1853-67 (Manchester, 1868)

Ruston, Alan ‘Dissenting Academy or Unitarian Seminary? Manchester College in the early twentieth century’ TUHS 25.4 (2014)

Seed, John ‘Manchester College, York: an early nineteenth century Dissenting Academy’ Journal of educational administration and history’ 14 (1982) pp.9-17

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Warrington Academy’ Hibbert Journal 56 (1957-8) Slavens, Thomas P. Theological libraries at Oxford (K. G. Saur, 1984) pp.111-122 [Manchester College]

Smith, Barbara ed. Truth, liberty, religion: essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College (Oxford, Manchester College, 1986)

Turner, William The Warrington Academy Part 1, Historical account of Warrington Academy. Part II. Historical account of students educated in the Warrington Academy (Warrington, Library and Museum Committee 1957 reprinted from articles in the Monthly Repository 8, 9 and 10 1813-1815

Waller, Ralph ‘Scenes of Manchester College from the eyes of James Martineau’ TUHS 21:3 213-217

Watts, Ruth ‘Manchester College and education 1786-1853’ in Smith, Barbara ed Truth, liberty, religion: essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College (Oxford, Manchester College, 1986) pp. 79-110

Weatherall, J. H. ‘Recollections of an Oxford student at Manchester College’ in Herford, C. H. James Estlin Carpenter: a memorial volume (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1929) pp. 93-122

Webb, R. K. ‘And the greatest of these is liberty: the Manchester College motto in its setting’ Faith and Freedom 40: (Spring 1987) 4-20

Webb, R.K. ‘Transplanting the vine: Manchester College in London and Oxford’ Faith and Freedom 44:3 (Autumn 1991) 78-97

Wykes, David L ‘Sons and subscribers: lay support and Manchester College’ in Smith, Barbara ed. Truth, liberty, religion: essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College (Oxford, Manchester College, 1986) pp. 31-77

Wykes, David L. ‘Dissenting academy or Unitarian seminary? Manchester College at York (1803-1840)’ TUHS 19:2 (1988) 102-112

Wykes, David L. ‘Manchester College at York (1803-1840): its intellectual and cultural contribution The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 63 (1991) 207-218

Wykes, David L. The education of English Unitarian ministers in the early nineteenth century: did Manchester College meet denominational needs? (pamphlet in HMCO library, and or place of publication)

Wykes David L ‘Scholarship or Practical Skills of the Ministry? Manchester College at York’ TUHS 24.4 (2010) 267-274

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Unitarian College, Manchester

Field, Clive and Shiel, Judith ‘The Unitarian College Collection and other Unitarian materials in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester’ pp. 177-185
[reprinted from Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 71:2 (summer 1989) with an addenda by Judith Steel] in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004)

Head, Geoffrey ‘The founders: John Relly Beard and William Gaskell’ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp.30-51

Hill, Andrew M. ‘Too soon forgotten: Sydney Herbert Mellone, 1868-1956’ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 105-120

Kovacs, Sandor ‘Translyvania and the Unitarian College, Manchester: the Sharpe Hungarian scholarships’ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 143-160

McLachlan, Herbert Unitarian Home Missionary College 1854-1914: its foundation and development with some account of the missionary activities of its members. (London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, 1915)

McLachlan, Herbert The Unitarian College Library: its history, contents and character (Manchester, privately published, 1939)

McLachlan, Herbert ‘The story of a Nonconformist library’ The Story of a Nonconformist Library (Manchester University Press, 1923) pp. 1-52

McLachlan, Herbert Unitarian College Manchester: register of students 1854-1929 (n.d.) [contains details of future careers of students]

McLachlan, Herbert Those eventful years 1853-4; 1889-90, and all that: an unfinished symphony of contrasted but closely related movements ([Manchester] n.d.)

Peart, Ann ‘Endpiece: Long haul to ecumenical cooperation’ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 161-176

Rowe, Mortimer A centenary address (Manchester, 1954)

Ruston, Alan ‘A sandwich of principals: [Herbert] McLachlan, [Raymond V. ] Holt and [Fred] Kenworthy’ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 121-14

Ruston, Alan ‘A Sandwich of Principals’, TUHS 23:3 (2005) 629-632.

Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004)

Smith, Leonard and others ‘Tutors and officers 1854-2004’ Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 191-197

Smith, Leonard and others ‘Register of students 1854-2004’ Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 185-190

Smith, Leonard ‘The first students: the class of 1854/55’ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004)pp. 52-76

Smith, Leonard ‘The 1851 Religious Census and the Unitarian Home Misssionary Board 1854’, TUHS 23:3 (2005) 625-628.

Steers, A. D. G. ‘Alexander Gordon: “An Irishman and, at heart, a citizen of Belfast”‘ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 77-104

Webb R. K. ‘The background: English Unitarianism in the nineteenth century’ in Smith, Leonard and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004 (Carnegie Publishing, 2004) pp. 1-29

Wykes, David L ‘Training Ministers suited to the wants of the less educated classes; the establishment of the Unitarian Home Misssionary Board’ TUHS 23:3 (2005) 615-624.

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Pioneer Preachers

Robbins, Keith ‘The spiritual journey of the Rev. R. J. Campbell’ in Robbins, Keith History, religion and identity in modern Britain (London, The Hambledon Press, 1993) pp. 110-147

Ruston, Alan ‘Pioneer Preachers’ 62-64 TUHS 21:1 (1995)

Smith, Leonard ‘”A great let-down and its legacy”: the New Theology and the Order of the Brotherhood of the Pioneer Preachers’ TUHS 21:4 (1998) 235-253

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