GENERAL HISTORIES

Allen, Joseph Henry An historical sketch of the Unitarian movement since the reformation (New York, 1894)

"The only work in English attempting to cover the entire field was [c.1905] in fact only a 'sketch' hastily done and with little use of primary sources" (E. M. Wilbur History 1 p.vii]

Burgess, Walter H. 'Work in the field of Unitarian history' TUHS 1:1 (1916) 1-10

Carpenter, Joseph Unitarianism, an Historic Survey London (1922) [reprinted from The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

Cooke, George Willis Unitarianism: its origin and history (Boston, American Unitarian Association, 1890)

"a series of popular lectures by different persons, wholly done at second hand" (E. M. Wilbur History 1 p.vii)

Gordon, Alexander 'Unitarianism' Encyclopedia Brittanica (11th edition, 1911)

Hill, Andrew McKean A Liberal Religious Heritage: Unitarian and Universalist foundations in Europe, America and elsewhere (London, Unitarian Publications, n.d) ISBN 0 85319-851

brief overview - also available in electronic form

Holt, Raymond Vincent The story of Unitarianism (London, 1931)

Kielty, John British Unitarianism, past, present and future [The Minns lectures 1959] (London, Lindsey Press, 1960)

Lindsey, Theophilus Historical view of the state of the Unitarian doctrine and worship from the Reformation to our own times (1783)

Parke, David B. The Epic of Unitarianism: original writings from the history of Liberal Religion (Boston, Beacon Press, 1960)

Japanese translation by Yoshitsugu Konno

Piet Visser ed. Bibliographia Sociniana: a bibliographical reference tool for the study of Dutch Socinianism and Antitrintarianism (Hilversum, 2004) [gives library sources including UK]

Short, Harry Lismer 'Unitarians and Universalists' Encyclopaedia Brittanica 15th edition, 1974)

later printings of 15th edition see under 'Protestants' for this article . In later printings still it has been replaced by an article by John Godbey

Short, Harry Lismer 'The later history of the English Presbyterians' Hibbert Journal 64 (1965-66)127-132, 160-166; 65 (1966-67) 32-37, 60-66, 117-122, 157-162; 66 (1967-68) 31-35, 70-73, 131-136

Tarrant, William George The story and significance of the Unitarian movement (London, The Lindsey Press, 1910) [reprinted with additional notes, 1947]

The Christian Life and Unitarian Herald 10 May 1913 [Commemoration Number 1813-1913]

commemorates 100th anniversary of the Trinity Act (1813) a general survey of Unitarianism in Britain and around the world. Especially good for its pictures.

Wilbur, Earl Morse Our Unitarian Heritage: an introduction to the history of the Unitarian MovementBoston, Beacon Press 1925) [6th printing 1963]

Wilbur, Earl Morse A History of Unitarianism volume 1 Socinianism and its Antecedents (Harvard University Press 1945), volume 2 In Transylvania, England and America (Harvard University Press 1952) [later edition Beacon Press]

"covering about the same ground in about the same order from the unitarian Anabaptist Ludwig Hätzer to, in Fock's case, Theodore Parker. Fock's work was clearly the forerunner and model for the two Wilbur volumes. However, Fock confined himself to the Latin and German sources of the Polish Brethren; Wilber mastered Polish and Hungarian" (G. H. Williams The Polish Brethren 1 p.17n1)

Wilbur, Earl Morse 'The meaning and lesson of Unitarian history' TUHS 3:4 (1926) 350-360

Wilbur, Earl Morse 'How the history came to be written' Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society 9:1 (1951)5-23

McLachlan, Herbert 'Earl Morse Wilbur scholar and traveller' TUHS 11:2 (1956) 54-68

Erdt, Werner of University of Hamburg was compiling a Bibliographia Anti-Sociniana Erdt, Werner 'The Wittenberg Anti-Socibuian Polemic' The Proceedings of the Unitrarian Universalist Historical Society 20:2 (1985-6) 89-93]

Wilbur, Earl Morse A bibliography of the pioneers of the Socinian-Unitarian movement in modern Christianity in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland [preface by Delio Cantimori] (Rome, Edizioni di stroia e letteratura, 1950) [EUL or NC Ed .28809 Wil]

GREAT BRITAIN IRELAND and the COMMONWEALTH

Papers of British Churchmen 1780-1940 London, HMSO, 1987

gives locations for personal papers of 35 British Unitarians

Field, Clive D. 'Sources for the study of Protestant Nonconformityt in the John Rylands University of Manchester' Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 71 (1989) 103-39

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

Garrard, L.A. Index to the Hibbert Journal 1902-1968
London, 1987)

Godfrey, Peter Catalogue of documents in the strong room [of Essex Hall, British Unitarian HQ] (1997)

Godfrey, Peter 'Notes: records held at Essex Hall' TUHS 22:1 (1999) 76-78

Harris, George 'List of Unitarian congregations in 1819' ? Christian Life 6 January 1894 [copy in W H Burgess's Scrapbook p. 75 Burgess Mss D19]

Hill, Andrew M. 'Conservation of archives' TUHS15:2 (1972) 65-67

Hill, Andrew M. 'Unitarian congregation in Great Britain a location list of their records 1' TUHS 17:3 (1981) 109-124; 17:4 (1982) 155-169; 18:1 (1983) 46-50; 18:2 (1984) 54; 18:3 (1985) 164; 18:4 (1986) 236

Hodson, J. Howard 'The manuscript sources of Presbyterian history' TUHS 12:3 (1961) 98-110

McLachlan, Herbert 'The earliest Unitarian periodical' [The Theological Repository] 1769-88The Story of a Nonconformist Library (Manchester University Press, 1923) pp. 88-104

includes key to signatures pp.185-189

McLachlan, Herbert The Unitarian movement in the religious life of England: 1. its contribution to thought and learning 1700-1900 (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1934) pp.169-233

surveys both magazines and newspapers

Mineka, Francis E. The Dissidence of Dissent: the Monthly Repository, 1806-1838 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1944)

Morgan, Paul Oxford Libraries outside the Bodleian (1973) pp.70-76 for Manchester College Library

Morgan, Paul , 'Manchester College and its books' in Smith, Barbara ed. Truth, liberty, religion: essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College (Oxford, Manchester College, 1986) pp. 111-126

Mullett, Michael Sources for the history of English nonconformity, 1660-1830 (British Records Association, Archives and the user 8, ?1993)

chapter 5 deals with Unitarians

Ruston, Alan and othersThe Inquirer a history and other reflections (London, 1992)

Ruston, Alan 'The papers of Rev. J. A. Pearson' TUHS 20:3 (1993) 212-214

Watts, Hazel ed. Guide to the records of the Canadian Unitarian and Universalist churches, fellowships and other related organizations (Archives Committee, 1990)

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

Webb, Robert K. 'Quakers and Unitarians' Paz, D. G. Nineteenth-century English religious traditions: retrospect and prospect (Westport, Greenwood Press, 1995) pp. 85-115 [Contributions to the study of religion ]

In this bibliographic survey Unitarians are discussed by R. K. Webb in the same chapter as Quakers

Bolam, C; Goring, Jeremy; Short H.L.; and Thomas, Roger The English Presbyterians from Elizabethan Puritanism to Modern Unitarianism London, George Allen and Unwin, 1968) [American edition Beacon Press]

Gordon, Alexander Heads of English Unitarian History with appended lectures on Baxter and Priestley London,. Philip Green, 1895) [also a later reprint ? 1960s]

Gordon, Alexander Addresses biographical and historical (London, The Lindsey Press, 1922)

Gordon, Alexander Heresy: its ancient wrongs and modern rights (London, Lindsey Press, 1913)

Goring, Jeremy 'Unitarianism: history, myth or make-believe' TUHS 19:4 (1990) 213-227

Holt, Raymond V. 'Strata in the formation of Unitarian Church tradition' TUHS 3:1 (1923) 11-19

Holt, Raymond V. The Unitarian contribution to social progress in England (London, The Lindsey Press, 1938) [2nd revised edition 1952]

Needs to be used with care

Kenworthy, Fred 'The Unitarian tradition in Liberal Christianity' TUHS 8:2 (1944)58-67

Lloyd, Walter The story of Protestant Dissent and English Unitarianism (London, Philip Green, 1899)

McLachlan, Herbert The Unitarian movement in the religious life of England: 1. its contribution to thought and learning 1700-1900 (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1934)

McLachlan, Herbert 'Liberal Dissent a hundred years ago' The Story of a Nonconformist Library (Manchester University Press, 1923) pp.105-133

McLachlan, Herbert Essays and Addresses (Manchester University Press, 1950)

Mellone, S.H. Unitarian teachers: their lead in thought and work (London. The Lindsey Press, 1923)

contains extracts from the writings of Theophilus Lindsey, Joseph Priestley, John James Tayler, James Martineau, John Hamilton Thom, Anna Swanick, Henry William Crosskey, Charles Beard, Brooke Herford, Stopford Augustus Brooke, James Drummond, Richard Acland Armstrong

Mickelwright, F.H. Amphlett 'A new approach to Unitarian history' TUHS 8:3 (1945) 122-129

Short, Harry Lismer Dissent and the Community (London,1962)

Tayler, John James A retrospect of the religious life of England; or, the church, puritanism, and free inquiry (London, John Chapman, 1853)

Thomas, Roger 'The Unitarian tradtion and its significance' and 'The Unitarian tradtion and its wider horizons' The Inquirer 6783-4 (30 January and 3 February 1973)

Wigmore-Beddoes, Dennis G. Yesterday's radicals: a study of the affinity between Unitarianism and broad church Anglicanism in the nineteenth century (Cambridge, James Clarke and Co, Ltd.

useful bibliography of significant 19th century English Unitarian theological works

Colligan, J. Hay Eighteenth Century Nonconformity (London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1915)

Coomer, Duncan English Dissent under the early Hanoverians (London, Epworth Press, 1946)

Manning, Bernard Lord The Protestant Dissenting Deputies (Cambridge, University Press, 1952)

Taylor, Stephen and Wykes, David L. Parliament and Dissernt (Edinburgh, 2005)

Watts, Michael The Dissenters from the Reformation to the French Revolution (London, 1978)

Watts, MichaelThe Dissenters volume 2 the expansion of evangelical nonconformity 1791-1859 Oxford, 1995)