Many of the Network’s archives, artworks, and printed sources are accessible online through our Digital Collections page, partnership with British Online Archives, and 3D collections.
Over 6,500 images are freely-available online – click below to explore, now:
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.
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 include:
- 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)
3D Collections
We have collaborated with Digital Services colleagues at Oxford Brookes University to create 3D models of objects from our collections, allowing researchers to manipulate and explore the items in 360° through RADAR, the university’s institutional repository.
John Wesley bust (1793)
Wesleyan Methodist Centenary medal (1839)
Westminster College pudding (c1890s)
Westminster College wooden crest (20th cent.)
Lady Spencer-Churchill College Countryside Award plaque (1970)
Westminster College celebratory squash ball (1978)
Westminster Oxford Research Network 