Industrial Mission history

A website for the recording of the history of the Industrial Mission movement

The aim: to promote understanding of Industrial Mission and to learn the lessons it has to teach us.

Objectives:

• To locate and list the archives of Industrial Mission teams and attempt to ensure their safekeeping
• To publish interviews with industrial chaplains
• To encourage history-writing
  

Archives

The John Rylands University Library at Manchester holds the Industrial Mission Association archive:

• John Rylands Index
• Guide to the records
  
• First appendix
  
• Supplement to the first appendix 1992
  
• Supplement to the first appendix 1993
  
• Supplement to the first appendix 1994
  
• Supplement to the first appendix 1995
  
• Supplement to the first appendix 1996
  
• Supplement to the first appendix 1998
• Supplement 2008
• Michael Atkinson's deposit June 2008 (This is a Notepad .txt document)
• Deposit in 2010 of Philip Bloy's papers and various dissertations
  

We are most grateful to John Hodgson of the John Rylands University Library at Manchester for supplying a photocopy of the index, guide, appendix and supplements, and to Crispin and Mary White for scanning and checking the material.

The final item in the list, Supplement 2008, will be available at the library from the 5th June 2008. Thank you to Crispin for this entire supplement, and for the ordering of the material listed in it into boxes.

Industrial Mission team archives: Some team archives will be found in the John Rylands University Library collection. Most are held locally, and a list can be found below:

Industrial Mission Team archives

The South London Industrial Mission. These archives are held at the Local History Library in Southwark. To see a list of the holdings click here.

Leeds Industrial Mission. These archives are held by the Rev'd Dr. Philip Bee. To see a list of the holdings click here.

Sheffield Industrial Mission: Archives are held at Sheffield Archives. To see a list of the holding, click here, and for a further deposit, click here

Michael Atkinson still holds some papers on Ted Wickham, Leslie Hunter and the Sheffield Industrial Mission. For a list of these, click here.

To see Michael Atkinson's memoirs click here. (And there's a note on the archives).

Teesside Industrial Mission. To see a note from Jeremy Atkinson, click here.

The Churches Industrial Group Birmingham archives are at the CIGB offices. For details, click here

Worcestershire Industrial Mission (now Faith at Work in Worcestershire) archives up until the mid 90s to 2000 are held at the Worcestershire County Record Office. For more recent archives click here to see a note from Philip Jones.

The archives of the Industrial Committee, Board for Social Responsibility, etc. of the Church of England's General Synod are held in the Church House archives in Bermondsey.