The Methodist Recorder is an independent weekly newspaper that examines events and current affairs within the Methodist community in Great Britain and the Wider World. It has been published continuously since 1861, absorbing its major rivials the Watchman in 1883, the United Methodist in 1932 and the Methodist Times in 1937.
On 13 February 1992 the Recorder published its 7,000th edition and the following year published its first April Fools' Day joke, claiming that there would be a "complete standardisation of Methodist worship" which would require local preachers to wear a "uniform" and be trained in clowning and juggling!
In 2012 the paper was priced £1.95 per edition, the cost of the annual subscription is £15.00 Although not available online, the Recorder maintains a basic website offering subscription details and a brief outline of the newspaper's contents. The editor is; Moira Sleigh. The Methodist Recorder is available on a memory stick free of charge for blind and visually impaired people from Galloway's Society for the Blind.
A full archive in both bound copies and microfilm, is available from the Methodist Studies Unit, of the Westminster Institute of Education, which is part of Oxford Brookes Polytechnic in Oxford Public access is free of charge (by prior appointment) and a small charge is made for reproduction.
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