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
  

Papers

Theological Influences in the Early Years of Industrial Mission, by Michael Atkinson. (This paper was written in 1980-81 at the request of the Industrial Mission Association's Theological Development Group. It was privately published in mimeographed form [nd] by the William Temple Foundation jointly with the Group. It formed Chapter 1 of Working Papers from Industrial Mission - Three, 'Thinking in Practice - Theology and Industrial Mission'. It was digitised, unrevised, in December 2007)

A selection of talks and papers from Chris Beales

The report of a review of the Black Country Urban Industrial Mission, June 2008