Digitised material

A selection of material from the Christian Brethren Archive has been digitised, and is available to view through the University of Manchester Library Digitised Collections.

Key people and places

• Portraits of John Nelson Darby, including pencil illustration and watercolour painting of Darby by Edmund Gosse
• Scrapbook of John Nelson Darby containing letters, certificates, newspaper cuttings, tickets and other ephemera relating to the life of Darby
• Letter book of John Nelson Darby transcriptions of letters written whilst Darby was on the first of several missionary journeys in Ontario, Canada 
• Correspondence of John Nelson Darby letters from and to Darby 1829 - 1888
• Merrion Hall, Dublin photograph collection portraits of prominent Brethren figures, formerly hung on the walls of Merrion Hall
• Brethren photograph collection photographs of prominent Brethren figures, including John Nelson Darby, F. E. Raven, James Taylor Snr, and W. H. Dorman Jnr.

Missionary activity and evangelism

• Diary and notebook of Dan Crawford documenting Crawford’s journey to Africa and experiences as a pioneer Brethren missionary, 1888-1889
• Lantern Slides photographs illustrating missionary activities, coloured illustrations including two sets of Pilgrims Progress, and a collection on Biblical themes
• Echoes of Service periodicals full early editions of Echoes of Service and Missionary Echo from 1872-1960, featuring reports of missionary activity all over the world
• Echoes of Service postcards featuring images of mission workers and information on the country in which they are working
• Journals of E.H. Broadbent recording his missionary work across Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 1898-1940
• Photographs of Geoffrey Taylor Bull illustrating his time in Kuling, China and Tibet, 1947
• Scrapbook of Leonard Sheldrake illustrating his activities as a travelling preacher in the United States during the 1930s
• Scrapbook of missionaries at Lung Hwa internment camp, Shanghai, during the Second World War, containing sketches, watercolour paintings, photographs and related memorabilia

Bible study and interpretation

• The Fry Manuscripts transcriptions of important letters and other items relating to the life and work of Benjamin Wills Newton, taken down by Alfred Fry
• Greek New Testament with annotations by John Nelson Darby containing commentary and extensive handwritten notes

Publications

• Brethren Assembly Address Books for 1873, 1897, 1904 and 1933 
• Harvester and Aware magazine full editions of the periodical from 1941–1944, 1949–1953, 1955–1961, 1973-1974, and 1976-1995
• Children's book collection a series of covers illustrating the variety of material available in the children's book collection