His collection comprises mainly printed material on the history of North Eastern Methodism, arranged by area, including chapel centenary leafelts, booklets, service sheets etc. There is also some local history material mainly for Sunderland and Newcastle upon Tyne, and some odd copies of 19th century local newspapers, some originals and others facsimiles, and the occasional book (such as A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... with Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore (4th end 1793)) and map (copy of John Ogilby's Whitby-Tynemouth Road (1675)), along with some original documents, photocopies and transcripts of documents, photographs both original and copy B&W prints 19th/20th centuries, and newspaper cuttings.
Geoffrey Milburn Collection
This material is held atDurham University Archives
- Reference
- GB 33 MIL
- Dates of Creation
- 1793-c.2005
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 4 metres
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Geoffrey Milburn (died 24 December 2006) was a History lecturer at Sunderland Polytechnic and author of many books especially on Methodism, Nonconformity and the local history of the North East. For 30 years, he was editor of the journal of the North East Branch of the Wesley Historical Society.
Arrangement
Arranged largely by area by Milburn.
Access Information
The collection has not yet been sorted or catalogued. For this reason, it is not normally possible to consult the collection.
Acquisition Information
Donated by his widow in July 2007 (Acc No Misc.2006/7:69), with additions in April, June and October 2008 and June 2009 (Acc No Misc. 2007/8:51 & 75, 2008/9:33 & 117).
Other Finding Aids
Word-processed box list of the accessions.
Separated Material
231 of his pamphlets have been incorporated into the general PamSC (closed access) and PamL (open access) sequences at PGL. 53 of his books have been incorporated into the Bill Bryson Library main book sequences in April 2008.
Books, microfilms and printouts re the 1851 religious census were transferred to Teesside University in May 2008
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of Collections (e-mail pg.library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
Appraisal Information
The contents of the collection have not yet been fully appraised.
Bibliography
Religion in Sunderland in the mid-nineteenth century : a study based on the Religious Census of 1851, (Sunderland : Sunderland Polytechnic Department of Geography and History, 1982)Piety, profit and paternalism : Methodists in business in the North-East of England c.1760-1920, (Bunbury : Wesley Historical Society, 1983)Methodism, ([Durham] : North of England Institute for Christian Education, c1985) ed with Stuart T. Miller, Sunderland : river, town and people : a history from the 1780s (Sunderland 1988)Church and chapel in Sunderland 1780-1914, (Sunderland : Sunderland Polytechnic Department of Geography and History, 1988)