Manuscripts
Date range: 1815-1983.
The archive contains some 6,000 manuscript items, in addition to printed materials, relating to individual Brethren and Brethren assemblies.
The former include papers of
- John Nelson Darby (1800-1882),
- Benjamin Wills Newton (1807-1899) and his circle, Piero Guicciardini (1808-1886),
- Teodorico Pietrocola Rossetti (1825-1883),
- James Harvey McNairn,
- George Henry Lang (1874-1958),
- Harold St John (1876-1957),
- Ransome Wallace Cooper (1881-1979),
- Joseph Barnes Watson (1884-1955),
- and Dorothy Isaac, concerning missionary work in the Belgian Congo, 1921-1924.
Institutional records relate to Brethren assemblies in Bramhall, Carlisle, Eccles, Grosmont, Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, Ross on Wye, Stafford and Stretford, as well as the Devonshire Conferences of 1906 and 1907 (which discussed the terms of fellowship between gatherings of Open and Exclusive Brethren), and the Christian Brethren Research Fellowship for 1962-1981.
Finding aids
Lists of papers and other record materials are available via the links on the left of the page.
See also
- David Brady, 'The Christian Brethren Archive in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', in Lorenza Giorgi and Massimo Rubboli (eds), Piero Guicciardini, 1808-1886: un riformatore religioso nell' Europa dell' ottocento (Firenza, 1988) and the Library's publication The Christian Brethren Archive in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
Location
Enquiries
Enquiries about the Christian Brethren Archive should be directed to Graham Johnson, Christian Brethren Archivist.