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Collapse UC 2 - New Meeting House, Moor Street (1690 - 1861), subsequently the Church of the Messiah, Broad Street (1862 - 1973), subsequently the Unitarian New Meeting, Ryland Street (1973 onwards) - 1692 - 1971

UC 2 - New Meeting House, Moor Street (1690 - 1861), subsequently the Church of the Messiah, Broad Street (1862 - 1973), subsequently the Unitarian New Meeting, Ryland Street (1973 onwards) - 1692 - 1971

1 - Trustees and Trust Corporation records - 1771 - 1851

2 - Services of the church - 1747 - 1951

3 - Church government - 1675 - 1971

4 - Membership of the church - 1844 - 1951

5 - Printed publications - 1790 - 1970

6 - Church income - 1811 - 1946

7 - Church buildings and grounds - 1837 - 1935

8 - Other church property - 1920 - 1925

9 - Charities - 1776 - 1894

10 - Day Schools - 1867 - 1871

11 - Sunday Schools and Home Mission - 1788 - 1939

12 - Other organisations and ministries - 1836 - 1928

13 - Regional Unitarian organisations and ministries - 1723 - 1960

14 - Miscellaneous items - 1699 - 1951

Collapse 15 - Manuscripts and printed items relating to Joseph Priestley, formerly at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham, and now on permanent loan to the Reference Library - 1791 - 1933

15 - Manuscripts and printed items relating to Joseph Priestley, formerly at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham, and now on permanent loan to the Reference Library - 1791 - 1933

Collapse 1 - Copies of important letters and official business connected with the 1791 Riots, originally the property of the late Thomas Lee (originally given by the late Rosalind Lee) - 1791 - 1933

1 - Copies of important letters and official business connected with the 1791 Riots, originally the property of the late Thomas Lee (originally given by the late Rosalind Lee) - 1791 - 1933

1 - Dr Priestley's Laboratory, 1791 (Reprinted from the "Birmingham Weekly Post," March 15, 22, 29, and April 5, 1890) - 1890

2 - Newspaper cutting entitled 'A bit of old Birmingham', from the 'Birmingham Post', - 29/04/1930

3 - Copy of Address of Young Persons at the New Meeting to D. Priestley - n.d. [1790]

4 - Steventon. Account of transactions at the Riots - n.d. [c1791]

5 - Broadsheet concerning the Priestley Riots, given gratis with Swinney's 'Birmingham and Stafford Chronicle' - 14/07/1791

6 - Documents lent to Mr F. G. Jackson for Priestley Bi-Centenary Exhibition in Leeds - 11/03/1933

7 - Two cards entitled 'Centenary of the Priestley Riots. Dinner at the Great Western Hotel, Birmingham, On Tuesday, 14th July, 1891, in celebration of the progress made in civil and religious liberty during the last 100 years' - 1891

8 - General Assembly of Unitarian & Free Christian Churches Annual Meetings. Birmingham April 1932. Notes on and appeal for relics for the Joseph Priestley Exhibition - 1932

9 - An original letter from Dr Priestley, Clapton, to his friend Dr Withering, of Edgbaston Hall, currently at the Boulonois Hotel, Lisbon. Portugal - 15/04/1793

10 - Dr Priestley's letter to the younger Part of the congregations at the New Meeting - 12/08/1791

11 - Copy of letter from Dr. Priestley to an unknown recipient - 05/09/1791

12 - Copy Receipt for Dr. Priestley's amounts of Damages from T. Lee to W. Little Esquire - 05/09/1793

13 - Newspaper cutting entitled 'The Birmingham riots of 1791. An original letter', from the 'Birmingham Daily Mail' - 15/07/1891

14 - Newspaper cutting entitled 'Centenary of the Birmingham riots. A commemorative dinner', from the 'Birmingham Daily Post' - 15/07/1891

15 - From the 'Morning Chronicle' of July 28, 1791, to the editor [from a dissenter] - 28/07/1791

16 - At a numerous and respectable Meeting of Protestant Dissenters held at the Charity School in Park-Street, on Wednesday, December 19, 1792; William Russell Esq. in the chair - 19/12/1792

17 - Copy of Dr. Priestley's Answer to the Address of the young Men and Women of the Evening Class at the Evening Class at the New Meeting Birmingham - 1790

18 - Copy to Dr. Priestley - n.d. [1790s]

19 - 'On Toleration' by Joseph Priestley - n.d. [18th cent.]

20 - Typescript list re Priestley Riots & that period in possession of [J.D.] Lee, 1 Augustus Road, Edgbaston 1932 (a - b) and typescript correspondence (deleted), with note on back 'List 2 Priestley Relics available' (c) - 1931 - 1932

21 - Newspaper cutting entitled 'Joseph Priestley Exhibition' comprising a letter from Stephen G. Lee, President, Unitarian Historical Society, Magdalen College, Oxford - n.d. [1930s]

2 - Legal documents relating to damages claimed after the Riots - n.d. [1790s]

3 - Account Book listing 'Subscriptions for the Ministers', 'For Repairs', 'For the Fund' (showing signatures of Joseph Priestley and Mary Priestley) acknowledging receipt of salary - 1782 - 1783

4 - Dr Priestley's diary while he was at Daventry - 1754

5 - Letters from Thomas Lee to his daughter Mrs. Coates - 1791

6 - Accounts of Thomas Lee Junior as Treasurer To the Committee of Protestant Dissenters in Birmingham 1791 - 25/11/1791 - 11/11/1796

7 - Documents relating to the suit by the Trustees of the New Meeting House versus Hemlingford Hundred, Co. Warwick - 1791 - 1792

8 - Evidence of witnesses concerning the riots etc - 1791 - 1797

9 - Legal papers of Thomas Lee relating to the riots of 1791 - 1791 - 1792

10 - Volume entitled 'Recollections of Dr Priestley' by John Ryland - 25/02/1844

11 - Inventory of the House and Goods of Dr Joseph Priestley which were destroyed during the riots at Birmingham in 1791 - n.d. [c.1792]

12 - Bound transcript of UC 2/15/11 entitled 'Dr. Priestley's Inventory 1791' - 1890

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