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Church Missionary Society

 Organization

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

 Series

Church Missionary Society, 1948 - 1971

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/3
Scope and Contents

Papers concerning the work of the Society and related material.

Dates: 1948 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-sub-class

Church Missionary Society, 1945 - 1967

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/2/3/2
Scope and Contents

Talks, minutes and remarks, and related correspondence regarding the Church Missionary Society.

Dates: 1945 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Church Missionary Society addenda, 1962 - 1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/3/6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by H.B. Thomas. Due to the disorder of the notes prior to their cataloguing there may be some overlap between series.

Dates: 1962 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Church Missionary Society laymen, 1965

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/2/25
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by D.H. Simpson.

Dates: 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Church Missionary Society men, 1962

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/3/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by H.B. Thomas. Due to the disorder of the notes prior to their cataloguing there may be some overlap between series.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Church Missionary Society native clergy, 1961 - 1962

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/3/5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by H.B. Thomas. Due to the disorder of the notes prior to their cataloguing there may be some overlap between series.

Dates: 1961 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Church Missionary Society photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS
Scope and Contents The Church Missionary Society photograph collection consists of photographic prints, glass and film negatives, and lantern slides. The prints in CMS 1-17 were selected from the CMS’s Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper annotated with captions. Many photographs would have been taken to illustrate articles in the society’s periodicals including ‘Church Missionary Gleaner’, ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer’ and their successors. Little is known of the...
Dates: 1881 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Church Missionary Society women, 1961 - 1962

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/7/3/4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Biographical notes compiled by H.B. Thomas. Due to the disorder of the notes prior to their cataloguing there may be some overlap between series.

Dates: 1961 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Correspondence and papers of Robert Walker

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 339
Scope and Contents

Letters from Robert Walker in Uganda to his family, letters to the Walker family from other correspondents and miscellaneous items connected to Walker's missionary work in Uganda.

Dates: 1888 - 1995
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Diocese of Central Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania] 1927-1952

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469G
Scope and Contents A collection of 137 photographs and other pictures. The collection was mounted on sheets of brown paper for display at exhibitions and bazaars in the 1950s, but has now been transferred to an album. The photographs represent various aspects of the activities of the Diocese, and were gathered from local mission staff, who in many cases wrote descriptive notes on the backs. The majority are amateur snapshots not exceeding 14 x 8 cm, but there are a few larger ones, including some of people...
Dates: 1927 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

History of Nigeria bookshops

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 144
Scope and Contents

Notes and extracts collected by Thomas concerning the history and administration of the Nigeria Bookshops of the Church Missionary Society, with related papers.

Dates: 1969
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Miscellaneous, 1960 - 1968

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/6/3
Scope and Contents

Biographical lists of administrative officers, C.M.S. names in the 'Zanzibar gazette', Uganda Railway engine drivers, White Sisters, correspondents of Sir William Mackinnon and other groups.

Dates: 1960 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Printed material, 1924 - 1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155/8
Scope and Contents

A miscellaneous collection of material, including the volume 'Calendrier Nécrologique' (1946), printed by the Société des Missionnaires D'Afrique (Pères Blancs); a map of East Africa; material relating to the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, including a list of members; newscuttings; the C.M.S. newsletter (July 1971); and two items relating to 'L'Italia in Africa' (in Italian).

Dates: 1924 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Uganda Mission history

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 164
Scope and Contents The history of the Uganda Mission of the Church Missionary Society from its inception in 1876 to the Jubilee Year in 1927 (266 loose pages). There is much in his history concerning the exploits of Bruce, Speke, Baker, Grant, Stanley and other missionaries and explorers. Accompanying this material are fifteen xerox pages of notes and a list of names compiled by G.K. Baskerville, reconstructing the early Church Missionary Society baptismal records which were lost at Natete in 1888. It was...
Dates: 1876 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Subject
Africa (continent) 6
Uganda (nation) 4
Nigeria (nation) 2
Tanzania (nation) 2
Asia (continent) 1