Our digital library can is found across a number of different sites, with much of our material available on our Digital Collections page. We also curate the British Methodist Buildings visual database of over 10,000 photographs taken by individuals and the Methodist Church’s Home Mission division. More information about this can be found here.

We’ve also shared digitised material from our collections on Youtube; ArtUK; Bloomberg Connects; British Online Archives; and Oxford Brookes University’s research portal.

Methodist Portrait Prints

Over 2,000 historic portraits dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. These images chart developments in engraving techniques to the advent of photography, and beyond.

For more information about this collection click, here.

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British Online Archives

The Network partners with British Online Archives (BOA) to provide high-quality digitised copies of leading Methodist publications from our collections. For a subscription*, users can access 100,000s pages of printed sources that are not available elsewhere. Available titles:

  • Minutes of the Methodist Conference (1744-1877)
  • The Arminian Magazine; Methodist Magazine; Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1778-1897)
  • The Primitive Methodist Magazine; Aldersgate Magazine (1831-1932)
  • The London Quarterly Review; Primitive Methodist Quarterly Review; Holborn Review (1855-1900s)
  • The Methodist Recorder (1861-1919)
  • The War Bulletin of Westminster Training College (1914-1919)

Oxford Brookes University’s Research Portal: RADAR

This portal hosts all research completed at the University, including publications by our Fellows, Professor Bev Clack and Dr Tom Dobson, and friend of the Network, Dr Clive Norris; as well as research related to Methodism linked to the former Centre for Methodism and Church History. It also hosts a number of 3D models for items found in our collections, which can be explored in 360°, and were kindly created by staff in the University Library’s Digital Services team. Items that can be explored here are:
– A Coade Stone bust of John Wesley (1793)
– A Wesleyan Methodist Centenary medal (1839)
– A mounted piece of the pudding from Westminster College (c1890s)
– The crest of Westminster Training College (c1910)
– Westminster College celebratory squash ball (1978)