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(WESLEYAN) METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY/METHODIST CHURCH OVERSEAS DIVISION

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Title (WESLEYAN) METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY/METHODIST CHURCH OVERSEAS DIVISION
 
Creator Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Church Overseas Division
Women's Work of the Methodist Missionary Society
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist New Connexion Missionary Society
Bible Christian Home and Foreign Missionary Society
United Methodist Free Church Foreign Missions
United Methodist Missionary Society
 
Subject Cultural interaction
Home mission administration
Religious organizations
Missionary societies
Mission policy
Mission administration
Overseas/foreign mission administration
Religious institutions
Religious movements
Finance
Financial administration
Political systems
Colonial countries
Religions
Ancient religions
Christianity
Protestantism
Protestant nonconformity
Methodism
Visual materials
Photographs
Travel
Travel abroad
Missionaries
Evangelistic missionaries
Evangelistic missionary work
Transport
Vehicles
Ships
Mission ships
Religious groups
Christians
Protestants
Protestant nonconformists
Methodists
Religious activities
Missionary work
Womens missionary work
Nonconformists
Nonconformity
 
Description

Records, 1744-1976, documenting the work of the Methodist Missionary Society (from the Methodist Union of 1932), and the work of its predecessor missionary societies prior to 1932 - the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, and the missionary societies of the churches that formed the United Methodist Church - and covering overseas missionary work in Europe, North America, West Indies, Africa, India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), China, Burma and Australasia.

The main series for the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society/Methodist Missionary Society include material from the home organisation in London, which directed overseas missionary affairs, including Committee minutes and papers, candidates papers, 1829-1869, finance papers, 1817-1945, and outgoing correspondence. However, the bulk of the material comprises Synod minutes and correspondence send to London from missionaries in the overseas districts, including Europe, North America, West Indies, West Africa, Central Africa, South Africa, Kenya, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Southern India, Northern India, Burma, China & South East Asia, and Australasia/South Seas. Special series include biographical material of missionaries from all denominations; missionary ships' logs and papers; and a miscellaneous assortment of notes, typescripts, unpublished articles and histories. There are approximately 2500 photographs, which cover India, Burma, Ceylon, Australasia, Africa, China and the West Indies.

The collection also includes minutes of Conference for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1744-1976.


 
Publisher School of Oriental and African Studies
 
Date 2008-02-07
 
Type text
 
Format text/html
 
Identifier http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=77&inst_id=19
 
Rights

The majority of the collection is only available for consultation on microfiche. In most instances only photographic material or personal papers are currently available for beyond 1950.

Apply to Keeper of Archives in first instance.