Board Minutes & Agenda Books

Series of minutes from the Committee, later Board, of the Colonial Missionary Society, including draft minutes, and reports from sub-committees. No minutes for the period May 1883-Jan 1899 exist, they were found to be missing in the 1950s. Includes the first minutes of the Society with manusc...

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Date(s) of creation: 1836 - 1967
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber CWM/CMS/01/01
callnumber_txt CWM/CMS/01/01
callnumber-sort CWM/CMS/01/01
prefix_number 01
title Board Minutes & Agenda Books
scb_date_creation 1836 - 1967
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 7 boxes (14 vols.)
format Archive
scb_admin_history From 1836 to the end of 1894[?], the Colonial Missionary Society was a Committee of the Congregational Union of England and Wales – hence the minutes up to that date are actually Committee minutes and not Board Minutes. The minute books (Board and Committees) were brought from Memorial Hall in July 1966.
description Series of minutes from the Committee, later Board, of the Colonial Missionary Society, including draft minutes, and reports from sub-committees. No minutes for the period May 1883-Jan 1899 exist, they were found to be missing in the 1950s. Includes the first minutes of the Society with manuscript notes on its origins, minutes for 1956, when the Society changed its name to the Commonwealth Missionary Society, and from 1966-67 relating to the merger with the London Missionary Society. Also includes agenda books for the Chairman and Secretary, 19501-966.
scb_access_status Open
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00CMS.0001.0001