| Arrangement | The numbering system used for the archive references to individual sub-sections of the Home Division catalogue reflects the organisation and number of departments as in 1959 when the archivist was appointed, namely:
H1: Home Secretary;
H2: Assistant Home Secretary;
H3: Education Secretary; and so on.
The classification system used for the arrangement of records within each Home Division department follow the same system as used by the other other CMS Home departments: the files are divided into groups according to the way in which they were used, including:
/A Administration
/C Committee work
/E Education
/F Finance
/G conferences, gatherings etc
/L literature
/M Medical
/O Outside organisations
/Z Miscellaneous
There are no records for H9, H12, H14, H20, H22, H26-29 or H31-33:
H9: Theologian-Missioner;
H12: Work amongst Men;
H14: Addressograph;
H20: Women's Work (connected with the General Wants department);
H22: Furlough and Medical Liaison (Home Leave Assistant in personnel division 1969);
H26: Library;
H27: Archivist;
H28: Film Production;
H29: Slide, Film Strip and Equipment Maintenance;
H31: Photo Bureau;
H32: Studio;
H33: Press and Publicity Relations Officer. |
| Administrative History | Home Secretary: at first there were several Association Secretaries. Samuel Hasell was the first to have the title of Central Secretary and W. E. Burroughs the first to be called Home Secretary:
1871-1879 Samuel Hasell;
1879-1887 Henry Sutton;
1887-1888 Percy Grubb (acting);
1888-1894 Baring Baring-Gould;
1894-1895 Percy Grubb (acting);
1895-1900 W. E. Burroughs;
1900 John Barton (acting);
1900-1903 John Stephen Flynn;
1903-1909 Herbert Lankester (jointly);
1904-1912 Bishop Ingham;
1911-1920 Charles Ridley Duppuy;
1920-1923 Bishop Herbert St. Barbe Holland;
1924-1925 William Wilson Cash (acting);
1925-1933 Stephen Garrett;
1934-1939 William Leonard Bertram Caley;
1940-1942 William Wilson Cash (acting);
1942-1947 Thomas William Isherwood;
1947-1965 Leslie Gravatt Fisher.
Archivist: in the Education Department 1959-1965 and General Secretary's Department thereafter:
1949-1951 Harry Cobb;
1959-1993 Rosemary Keen;
1993-2024 Ken Osborne.
Film production: the first film was commissioned in 1904 and production finished in 1966:
1953 David Lomax (technical advice and training)
Silde, Film Strip and Equipment Maintenence:
Albert Loud
Photo Bureau:
Mary Marrian, 'Janice', Pam Meister, Joan Tingey
Studio:
[Alan Tomkins], [Bob Godwin]
Librarians: the Library was under the Education Secretary up to March 1965 and under the General Secretary's Department thereafter:
1899 Joseph E Duncum;
1947-1959 October Miss Ferrier;
1959-1992 November Jean M Woods;
1992-2003 Colin Roe
In the early 1950s the Home Division was divided into six sections:
1: Units directly responsible to the Home Secretary: Literature Unit, Training, Men Deputations, Area Secretaries, Information Unit and Mission Share Plan;
2: Publicity Director: Silk Screen, Publicity Unit, Film Production, Slide Film Strip Production and Still Photography, Exhibition Production, Photographic Bureau;
3: Education Secretary: Children's Work, Youth, Schools colleges and universities, Literature Board, Library, Archivist;
4: Northern Secretary;
5: Assistant Home secretary: Women's Deputations, Parochial Groups Medical, General Wants, Overseas visitors;
6: Central Operations: Technical staff; Exhibition Field Staff; Film and Slide Library, Exhibition Distribution, Meetings Publicity, Tickets; Costumes and Despatch. |
| Copies | Some of the records in this sequence have been microfilmed by Adam Matthew Publications and the microfilm is available for consultation in Cadbury Research and elsewhere. In 2001, periodicals from the records of the Editorial Secretary were micropublished and released as Church Missionary Society Archive, Section III: Central Records, Parts 10, 12 and 16, Reels 107-117, 139-163, 216-228 (Marlborough: Adam Matthew Publications, 2001-2005). In 2006, periodicals from China and Japan were published as part of Church Missionary Society Archive, East Asia Missions Section I, Part 21 (Reels 446-465). Further records from the Home Division sequences were later microfilmed and released as Church Missionary Society Archive, Section VIII: Papers of the CMS Education Secretaries, 1902-1949, Part I, Reels 1-10 (Marlborough: Adam Matthew Publications, 20--). Reference copies of the microfilm held by Cadbury Research Library are located in microfilm drawers D5, D6, D7, D8 and D9. For further information about microfilm copies see the handlist to the records of the Home Division and the guides which accompany the microfilm (available online at http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/cms_section_VIII_part_1/Contents.aspx).
In addition to the microfilm, extensive sequences of periodicals in the records of the Editorial Secretary (CMS/H/H5) have been digitized and can be seen online by members of the University of Birmingham and other subscribing institutions. To see online copies of the records which have been digitized and a full list of titles available, go to http://www.amdigital.co.uk/ (for a list of titles follow the link under Introduction).
Records which have been microfilmed: CMS/H/H3; CMS/H/H5/E1/Ch; CMS/H/H5/E1/J; CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 1-14; CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 20-22; CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 35.
Records available online: CMS/H/H5/E1/Ch; CMS/H/H5/E1/J; CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 10-13; CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 14 (part); CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 20-22; CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 27 (part) CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 35; CMS/H/H5/E1/Hp 38-40. |