| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
MMS.01.01.05.01
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| recordtype |
archive
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| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| scb_loan_type |
Reference only
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| callnumber |
MMS/01/01/05/01
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| callnumber_txt |
MMS/01/01/05/01
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| callnumber-sort |
MMS/01/01/05/01
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| prefix_number |
01
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| title |
Home Organisation Committee minutes
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| scb_date_creation |
1912-1970
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| scb_level |
Sub-series
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| level_sort |
7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
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| scb_extent |
5 volumes
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| format |
Archive
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| scb_admin_history |
The earliest minutes (dating from 1895) for the Home Organisation Committee are contained within the minute books of the General Committee. After the reorganisation of the management of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in 1912 the Home Organisation Committee was tasked with keeping its own minute books.
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| description |
Minutes primarily recording the promotion of (Wesleyan) Methodist missionary work in Great Britain but also the administration of the Home Organisation Department itself. Matters discussed (some through the work of sub-committees) include: planning and production of publications, films, lantern lectures, etc; 'Foreign Field' and 'Kingdom Overseas' (and to a lesser extent 'HOD magazine' and 'At Home and Abroad') circulation numbers as well as publications costs, revenue raised, etc; promotion of missionary work through events, exhibitions, summer schools, 'May Meetings', etc; raising revenue, particularly through collection boxes; Mission House library (including acquisitions); budgets and revenue spent; brief entries on some staff appointments and departures; promoting missionary work to young people and children (notably through the Juvenile Missionary Association); reporting of missionary deputations overseas; attracting missionary candidates.
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| scb_access_status |
Open
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| scb_conditions_gov_access |
Two of these minute books are only available for consultation on microfiche.
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| scb_copyright |
Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
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| scb_use_restrictions |
For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| scb_related_material |
Minutes of the Home Organisation Committee from 1895 until the autumn of 1912 are contained within the minute books of the General Committee (MMS/Home & General/Minutes/FBN 4-5; MMS/Home & General/Minutes/Boxes 1220-1221 & 1331-1333).
The monthly magazine (from 1915 until 1976) of the Home Organisation Department - originally entitled 'The H.O.D. magazine: a monthly message from the Mission House to helpers at the home base' - is available within the Methodist Missionary Society Library (MMSL MG088).
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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
MMS
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| hierarchy_sequence |
MMS.0001.0001.0005.0001
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