Glossary of searchable keywords and phrases

Glossary of searchable keywords and phrases cited in the subject and genre fields of the Methodist online catalogue.

  • Academic papers (essays, articles etc)
  • Accounts of happy deaths
  • Acts of Parliament - Methodist Union
  • Acts of Parliament - Toleration Act
  • Alliance of Radical Methodists
  • Anglican Church - See under Church of England
  • Anti-Methodism – 18th century
  • Anti-Methodism – 19th century
  • Armed forces (Great Britain)
  • Art
  • Art, Great Britain
  • Art - Portrait engravings
  • Artefacts - Mary Bosanquet
  • Artefacts – Samuel Bradburn
  • Artefacts - Mary Fletcher
  • Artefacts - Hester Ann Rogers
  • Artefacts – Queen Catherine Parr (1512-48)
  • Artefacts – Charles Wesley
  • Artefacts – John Wesley
  • Artefacts - Susanna Wesley
  • Autobiographies/Memoirs/Biographies
  • Baptisms
  • Bible Christian Connexion
  • Bible Christian Connexion - Conference
  • Bible Christian Connexion - Schools committee
  • Bible Societies
  • Biblical studies
  • British Council of Churches
  • Calvinism
  • Charities – Fernley-Hartley Trust
  • Children - See under Youth
  • Church of England - See also Anglican Church
  • Church of England - Anglican/Methodist relations
  • Church of England - Calvinist
  • Church of England - Clergy
  • Church of England - Conversion testimonies
  • Church of England - Ecclesiastical courts
  • Church of England - Evangelical movement
  • Church of England - Foreign Missions
  • Church of England - High Church
  • Church of England - Holy Club
  • Church of England - Hymns
  • Church of England - Ministry to children
  • Church of England - Non-jurors
  • Church of England - North America
  • Church of England - Ordination
  • Church of England - Parishes
  • Church of England - Puritanism
  • Church of England - Preaching
  • Church of England - Union
  • Church of England - Urban Church project
  • Church of England – Women’s ministry
  • Circuit plans - Methodist Church (Great Britain)
  • Circuit plans - Methodist New Connexion
  • Circuit plans - Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)
  • Circuit plans - Wesleyan Methodist Association
  • Circuit plans - Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)
  • Class tickets - Methodist Church (Great Britain)
  • Class tickets - Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain)
  • Class tickets - Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)
  • Colleges - See also Universities
  • Colleges - Cambridge
  • Colleges - Cliff
  • Colleges - Didsbury
  • Colleges - Handsworth
  • Colleges - Hartley
  • Colleges - Hartley Victoria
  • Colleges - Headingley
  • Colleges - Hoxton
  • Colleges - Ranmoor
  • Colleges - Richmond
  • Colleges - Roehampton (Southlands)
  • Colleges - Southlands (Roehampton)
  • Colleges - Sunderland
  • Colleges - Victoria Park
  • Colleges - Wesleyan Theological Institute
  • Colleges – Westminster
  • Conference papers
  • Conversion testimonies
  • Countess of Huntingdon Connexion
  • Crime and Justice - Capital punishment
  • Crime and Justice - Prison reform
  • Crime and Justice - Riots
  • Diaries & Journals - 1700-50
  • Diaries & Journals - 1751-1800
  • Diaries & Journals - 1801-50
  • Diaries & Journals - 1851-99
  • Diaries & Journals - 1900-2009
  • Doctrine - See under Theology & Doctrine
  • Ecumenism – Urban Church project
  • Emigration
  • Engravings (places)
  • Engravings (people) – see under Portrait engravings
  • Ephemera
  • Epworth Old Rectory
  • Evangelicalism (18th century)
  • Fellowship of the Kingdom
  • Financial accounts
  • Gambling
  • Genealogy - Wesley family
  • Government records – Parliamentary papers
  • Health
  • Holy Club
  • Hymns - See also Poetry
  • Hymns
  • Hymns - 18th century
  • Hymns - Methodist Church of Great Britain
  • Hymns - Methodist New Connexion
  • Hymns - Wesleyan Methodist Church
  • Inghamite Connexion
  • Journals - search under Diaries
  • League of Nations
  • Legal - Land dispute
  • Legal - Title deeds
  • Legal – Trust documents
  • Legal papers
  • Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association
  • Magazines/newsletters
  • Medicine
  • Memorabilia - Wesley family and early Methodism
  • Methodism - Australia
  • Methodism - New Zealand
  • Methodism - Union
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - 1988 Steering Committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Archive and History Committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Armed Forces Board
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Book Room
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Central Missions
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Chapels
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - City missions
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Commemorative events
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Colleges
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Conference
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Conference Office
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Controversies
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Deaconess Order
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Department of Christian Citizenship
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Discipline
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Districts
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Overseas Division
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Division of Social Responsibility
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Division of Education and Youth
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Education committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Evangelical Forum for Theology
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Finance and Administration standing committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Foreign missions
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Forward Movement
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Gambling
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - General Purposes committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Health
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Health Service chaplaincy
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Higher Education work
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Home Mission
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Hymn Book Committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Immigration
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Industrial Relations
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - International Relations
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Ireland
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Local history
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Local Preachers
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Local Preachers committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Membership
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Methodist Publishing House
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - MethSoc
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Ministerial Training
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Methodist Missionary Society
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Moral Welfare sub-committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Mutual Aid Homes
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Pacifism
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Prison chaplaincy
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) – Publishing
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Renewal Group
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Schools
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Seaman’s Mission
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Senior Divisional Treasurers
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Social issues
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Society for Medical & Pastoral Psychology
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain): Spiritual Healing committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Student work
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Sunday observance
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Synods
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Temperance
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Timperley House Trust
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Union
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Urban Church project
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - War and Peace
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Women's ministry
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) – Workplace chaplaincy
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Youth and Citizenship Standing Committee
  • Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Youth work
  • Methodist Church Music Society
  • Methodist Church Music Society - Operation Goldhawk
  • Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Methodist Medical and Dental Fellowship
  • Methodist Music Society
  • Methodist New Connexion
  • Methodist New Connexion - Chapels
  • Methodist New Connexion - Circuit plans
  • Methodist New Connexion - Class tickets
  • Methodist New Connexion - Colleges
  • Methodist New Connexion - Districts
  • Methodist New Connexion - Finance
  • Methodist New Connexion - Foreign Missions
  • Methodist New Connexion - Foundation of
  • Methodist New Connexion - Hymns
  • Methodist Sacramental Fellowship
  • Methodist Society for Medical and Pastoral Psychology
  • Morality & Society
  • Moravians
  • Music - See also Hymns
  • Music
  • Music - Oratorios
  • Music - Organs
  • Music - Scores
  • Mutual Aid Homes
  • Newspapers
  • Non-conformity - Puritanism
  • Ordination
  • Ordination - Certificates
  • Overseas Churches - India
  • Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies
  • Oxford Methodists - See under Holy Club
  • Pacifism
  • Photographs (chapels)
  • Photographs (events)
  • Photographs (family)
  • Photographs (general)
  • Photographs (places)
  • Photographs (portrait)
  • Poetry - See also Hymns
  • Poetry
  • Politics (secular)
  • Portrait engravings
  • Preaching
  • Preaching - Women
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Australia) - Itinerant Preachers Friendly Society
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Book Room
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Circuit accounts
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Circuit plans
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Class tickets
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Clergy
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Colleges
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Committee of Privileges
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) – Conference
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Deaconess work
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Districts
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Finance
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Foreign missions
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Local history
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Local preachers
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Publishing
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Quarterly meetings
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Sunday Schools
  • Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) – Women’s ministry
  • Primitive Methodist Church (New Zealand) - Itinerant Preachers Friendly Society
  • Primitive Methodist Church (United States) – Official papers
  • Publishing
  • Puritans
  • Race relations
  • Regnal League
  • Renewal Group
  • Reports
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Roman Catholicism - Catholic emancipation
  • Royal Family - Queen Catherine Parr
  • Schools
  • Schools - Bible Christian
  • Schools - Hunmanby Hall
  • Schools – Kingswood
  • Schools - Licensing of
  • Schools - Trinity Hall
  • Schools - Wintersdorf
  • Schools - Woodhouse Grove
  • Sermons - 1660-1734
  • Sermons - 1735-91
  • Sermons - 1792-1849
  • Sermons - 1850-99
  • Sermons - 1900-1932
  • Sermons - 1933-2000
  • Slavery
  • Slavery - Abolition
  • Society for Propagation of Christian Knowledge
  • Strangers Friend Society
  • Sunday Schools
  • Temperance
  • Theology
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Chapel loans
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Colleges
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) – Conference
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Deaconess Order
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Deed Poll
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - District minutes
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Foreign missions
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Home and Foreign Missions Department
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Ministerial pensions
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) – Probationers committee
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Sunday Schools
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Trust papers
  • United Methodist Church (Great Britain) - Women's ministry
  • United Methodist Free Church (Great Britain) - Conference
  • United Methodist Free Church (Great Britain) – Districts
  • United Methodist Free Church (Great Britain) - Sunday Schools
  • Universities - Oxford
  • Voice of Methodism Association
  • Wesley Deaconess Order
  • Wesley Guild
  • Wesley Historical Society
  • Wesleyan Methodist Association
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Abolition
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Anglican/Methodist relations
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Anti-Gambling sub-committee
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Archives and Manuscripts
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Armed Forces Board
  • Wesleyan Methodism – Band tickets
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Baptisms
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Board for Chapel Trust Purposes
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Book Room
  • Wesleyan Methodism – Break-away movements
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Catholic emancipation
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Chapels
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Circuits
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Class leaders committee
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Class meetings
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Class tickets
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Committee of Privileges
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Conference
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Conference (Presidents)
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Controversies
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Conversion testimonies
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Discipline
  • Wesleyan Methodism - District papers
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Education
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Foreign missions
  • Wesleyan Methodism – Foreign missions (general)
  • Wesleyan Methodism – Gambling
  • Wesleyan Methodism - High Legh Summer School
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Holy Club
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Home Mission
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Industrial Relations
  • Wesleyan Methodism - International Relations
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Ireland
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Isle of Man
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Legal business
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Local history
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Local preachers
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Local Preachers committee
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Local Preachers fund
  • Wesleyan Methodism - London
  • Wesleyan Methodism - London Society
  • Wesleyan Methodism – Ministers
  • Wesleyan Methodism – Missions (City)
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Necessitous Local Preachers’ Fund
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Ordination
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Prison chaplaincy
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Publishing
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Schools
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Social policy
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Sunday Observance
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Temperance
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Temperance and Social Welfare department
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Timperley House Trust
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Trustees for Chapel Purposes
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Union for Social Services Council
  • Wesleyan Methodism - Youth work
  • Wesleyan Methodist Preachers Annuitant Society
  • Wesleyan Reform movement
  • Wesleyan Reform Union - District papers
  • Women and Religion - 1750-1799
  • Women and Religion - 1800-1850
  • Women and Religion - 1850-2010
  • World Methodist Historical Society
  • Youth clubs
  • Youth organizations - Boys Brigade