Many books are now becoming available as part of the Google Books Project and the Internet Archive. Finding these might be a challenge to the new researcher so the links given below are to some of the sources that are most likely to be of interest. Although many of these books are over 100 years old, they often contain useful and local nonconformist material and are still the “standard” works for some topics. If you make any discoveries of your own along these lines please let me know.
General nonconformity
The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster and Southwark including the lives of their ministers Vol. 2, Walter Wilson, London, 1808
The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster and Southwark including the lives of their ministers Vol. 3, Walter Wilson, London, 1810
Census of Great Britain, 1851: Religious Worship in England and Wales, Horace Mann, 1854
Original records of early non-conformity under persecution and indulgence Vol. 1, G. Lyon Turner, 1911-1914
Original records of early non-conformity under persecution and indulgence Vol. 2, G. Lyon Turner, 1911-1914
Original records of early non-conformity under persecution and indulgence Vol. 3, G. Lyon Turner, 1911-1914
Baptists
Baptist Bibliography Vols 1 1526-1776, W T Whitley
Baptist Bibliography Vols 2 1777-1837, W T Whitley
Minutes of the General Assembly of the General Baptist churches in England Vols 1 1654-1728, W T Whitley
Minutes of the General Assembly of the General Baptist churches in England Vols 2 1731-1811, W T Whitley
Life and Death of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, late pastor of the Baptist Church at Kettering, Dr John Ryland, 1818
A memoir of the late William Gadsby, John Gadsby, 1844
Tracts on Liberty of Conscience and Persecution 1614-1661, with a historical introduction, Edward Bean Underhill, The Hanserd Knollys Society, 1846
A condensed history of the General Baptists of the New connexion, James Hurford Wood, 1847
Haynes’ Baptist Cyclopædia: Or, Dictionary of Baptist Biography, Thomas Wilson Haynes, 1848
Confessions of Faith and other public documents illustrative of the history of the Baptists churches of England in the 17th century, Edward Bean Underhill, The Hanserd Knollys Society, 1854
Records of the Churches of Christ gathered at Fenstanton, Warboys and Hexham 1644-1720, Edward Bean Underhill, The Hanserd Knollys Society, 1854
The Records of a Church of Christ meeting in Broadmead, Bristol, 1640-1687, Edward Bean Underhill, The Hanserd Knollys Society, 1857
The Early English Baptists, Benjamin Evans, 1862
The English Baptists, who they are, and what they have done; being eight lectures, historical and descriptive, given by General Baptist Ministers in London, ed. John Clifford, 1881
Baptist history, from the foundation of the Christian Church to the close of the eighteenth century, John M. Cramp, c1870
John Smith the se-Baptist, Thomas Helwys, and the first Baptist church in England [microform] : with fresh light upon the Pilgrim Fathers’ church, Walter H. Burgess, 1911
Independents or Congregationalists
Historical memorials relating to the Independents, or Congregationalists, Benjamin Hanbury, 1841
Methodists
The history of the Primitive Methodist connexion, John Petty, 1860
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