Interserve England and Wales
IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB N/A Interserve England and Wales
Held at: Interserve England and Wales
Domain: archival
Title: Interserve England and Wales
Date(s) of contents: 1852-
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 12 shelves of box files of archival material and printed matter such as periodicals and minutes; c20 films and videotapes; 8 filing cabinet drawers of photographs and slides.
CONTEXT
Name of creator(s):
Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship
BMMF International
BMMF Interserve
Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society
Interserve
Interserve England and Wales
Zenana Bible and Medical Mission
Administrative/Biographical history: In 1852 a training school for women educational missionaries was founded in Calcutta. Interserve remained a women-only mission for 100 years, including men in its work from 1952. Interserve works in south and central Asia, the Middle East and north Africa.
See also:
John Charles Pollack, Shadows fall apart: the story of the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958).
Katharine Makower, Widening horizons: the story of Interserve (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993).
Custodial history: In the continuous possession of the society. NB. This archive was transferred to the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2005.
Immediate source of acquisition:
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and content/abstract: The collection comprises the archives of the society since its foundation in 1852, and includes papers, minutes, films, videotapes, photographs and slides relating to the society's activities mostly in India and Pakistan, but also in Bangladesh, Bhutan, central Asia, Egypt, the Middle East, Nepal and the UK.
The collection also includes society publications, principle of which are:
Annual Reports of the Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society
Annual Reports of the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship
Annual Reports of the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission
Missionary Records from India and Pakistan (1946-56)
The Indian Female Evangelist (1873-)
Go 1957- present
System of arrangement: Minutes, periodicals and papers are stored together, as are films and videotapes, and photographs and slides.
ACCESS AND USE
Language: English.
Conditions governing access: Access to earlier documents is by prior appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction: Permission to reproduce to be sought in writing from Interserve England and Wales.
Finding aids: Partial list.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World holds the archives of Interserve Scotland.
Records of Interserve Ireland are held at 14 Glencregagh Court, Belfast BT6 0PA.
The National Library of Scotland holds copies of the society's journal publications such as The Indian Female Evangelist.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2002.
- INDEX ENTRIES
- Subjects
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- Audiovisual materials
- Films
- Medical missionaries
- Medical missionary work
- Missionaries
- Missionary work
- Photographic slides
- Photographs
- Religious activities
- Religious groups
- Religious organizations
- Video recordings
- Visual materials
- Women missionaries
- Women's missionary work
- Zenana missionary work
- Audiovisual materials
- Personal names
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- Corporate names
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- BMMF International
- BMMF Interserve
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship
- Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society
- Interserve
- Interserve England and Wales
- Zenana Bible and Medical Mission
- BMMF International
- Places
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- Africa
- Asia
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Central Asia
- Egypt
- Europe
- India
- Middle East
- Nepal
- North Africa
- Pakistan
- South Asia
- UK
- Western Europe
- Africa