Madagascar missions

IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 288587
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies Library
Domain: archival
Title: Madagascar missions
Date(s) of contents: 1864-1971
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 1 file

CONTEXT

Name of creator(s): Burke | Margaret | fl 1950-1953 | of the Friends Service Council

Administrative/Biographical history: These papers were possibly collected by Margaret Burke, who worked for the Friends Service Council Madagascar Committee.

The Friends Service Council (FSC) was established in 1927 by the amalgamation of the Friends Foreign Mission Association (FFMA) and the Friends Council for International Service (CIS). The FSC is the standing committee responsible for the overseas work of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland. Its predecessor the FFMA was formally established in 1868 in succession to a provisional committee set up a few years before. It remained an independent organization until it became a committee of London Yearly Meeting in 1918. Its fields of action included Madagascar, from 1867.

Madagascar was also among the mission fields of the London Missionary Society, whose first missionaries arrived in 1818.

Custodial history:

Immediate source of acquisition: Donated in 1973.

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

Scope and content/abstract: Papers on missions in Madagascar, 1864-1971 (some undated), largely dating from the mid-20th century, possibly collected by Margaret Burke and including some of her own papers, comprising various printed articles, typescripts, manuscript papers, and correspondence, on evangelistic and educational missionary work by the London Missionary Society and Friends Service Council (including its predecessor the Friends Foreign Mission Association) and on local customs, including undated photographs [1920s] of missionaries, indigenous inhabitants and local scenes.

System of arrangement:

ACCESS AND USE

Language: English and Malagasy

Conditions governing access: Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction: No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids: Database.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: The School of Oriental and African Studies holds other papers relating to missions in Madagascar, including records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS) and papers of J T Hardyman (Ref: PP MS 63).

Records of the Friends Service Council and its predecessors are held at the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Library, London.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Source: R Lovett, The History of the London Missionary Society, vol 1, p 674; Nobel website on the Friends Service Council: http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1947/friends-council-history.html

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2002

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects

African cultures

Christians

Cultural heritage

Customs and traditions

Educational missionary work

Evangelistic missionary work

Missionaries

Missionary work

National cultures

Photographs

Protestant nonconformists

Protestants

Quakers

Religious activities

Religious groups

Visual materials

Personal names

Burke | Margaret | fl 1950-1953 | of the Friends Service Council

Corporate names

Friends Foreign Mission Association

Friends Service Council

Missionary Society x LMS | London Missionary Society x London Missionary Society

Places

East Africa

Madagascar