Missionary personnel files

Papers relating to the process of organising and managing long-term and short-term missionary service appointments. Personnel files were set up for each individual at the time of appointment and originally contained everything relating to their appointment and the administration and support of their...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/CWM/07/01 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1940-2006
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.CWM.07.01
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber CWM/CWM/07/01
callnumber_txt CWM/CWM/07/01
callnumber-sort CWM/CWM/07/01
prefix_number 01
scb_previous_numbers 1.2.1.1, 1.2.1.2
title Missionary personnel files
scb_date_creation 1940-2006
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 8 boxes
format Archive
description Papers relating to the process of organising and managing long-term and short-term missionary service appointments. Personnel files were set up for each individual at the time of appointment and originally contained everything relating to their appointment and the administration and support of their post, including applications, service contracts, correspondence, reports, medical records, travel details, salary and pension details, etc. Files have subsequently been weeded to remove routine administrative and financial papers and private medical records. Missionary personnel files largely date from the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the practice of creating a single file per missionary seems to have become standard practice. Prior to this a number of separate files were maintained for each missionary, including their candidates' papers, medical files, correspondence, reports and a 'finance' file, containing records relating to salary payments, allowances, tax, pensions, etc. Medical files and finance files have not been retained. Candidates' papers, correspondence and reports for the period preceding the creation of CWM (i.e. pre-1977) can be found in the London Missionary Society archive. In some cases, the service of an individual missionary began with the London Missionary Society and continued with the Council for World Mission, and records will need to be located in both archives.
scb_arrangement Files are organised alphabetically by individual missionary.
scb_access_status Open
scb_conditions_gov_access All missionary personnel files are closed for the lifetime of the individual in line with the Data Protection Act 1998. Only those files belonging to deceased missionaries have therefore been transferred to the archive at SOAS. Personnel files for those missionaries still living are held by the Council for World Mission until they can be made available to the public for research, and will be transferred as part of future accruals to the archive.
language English
language_search English
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00CWM.0007.0001

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