The Centre has a unique and extensive archive of special collections in the history of world Christianity and the missionary movement.
All books and pamphlets in the Centre’s collection are catalogued by the University’s library catalogue and housed in University’s Main Library. Detailed information on the archival collections is available through Archives Online and on Archives Hub . Many of the photographs from the Centre’s collection have been digitised, and are now available through the University of Southern California’s International Mission Photography Archive .
Tinted lantern slide showing a group of Hindu men bowing to pray, ca. 1920. CSCNWW33/OS16/76 The collections include materials related to Latin Link (formerly the Evangelical Union of South America), The Regions Beyond Missionary Union, Sudan United Mission/Action Partners (now Pioneers), and the Records of the Edinburgh 2010 project. There are also extensive runs of nineteenth- and twentieth-century mission periodicals, including:
A collection of periodicals relating to the churches of Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific.
A corpus of monographs, pamphlets and ephemera relating to the churches of Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific, including large quantities of Christian literature produced there.
The archives of certain missionary societies, and a substantial collection of private papers, missionary papers and others. Other missionary archives are held on microfiche.
For enquiries about the archival collection, please email HeritageCollections@ed.ac.uk .
Identifier Collection CSWC 1 Papers of John Harry Dring (1911-2000) CSWC 2 Papers of Joseph H. Oldham (1874-1969) and Betty D. Gibson (1889-1973) CSWC 3 Collection of Joseph Ross (1890-1969) CSWC 4 Collection of John Hector (1845-1934) CSWC 5 Papers of George McGlashan Kerr (1874-1950) and Isabel Kerr (1875-1932) CSWC 6 Diaries of James William Westgarth (fl. 1906-1945) CSWC 7 Papers of Isabel Fleming (1890-1983) and Jessie Service (1888-1958) CSWC 8 Papers of Edward McKillop Young (1873-1942) CSWC 9 Papers of Karl Gützlaff (1803-1851) and the Chinese Union CSWC 10 Papers of Cecil Polhill (1860-1938) and Arthur Polhill (1863-1935) CSWC 11 Papers of T. Ralph Morton (1900-1977) and Jenny Morton (1901-1986) CSWC 12 Letters of John M. Leggate (c.1904-1985) CSWC 13 Papers of John David Hayes (1888-1957) CSWC 14 Papers of Helen B. K. Maclean (fl. 1921-1954) CSWC 15 Papers of George William Clarke (1849-1919) CSWC 16 Papers of Annie Gray Buchan (1895-1988) CSWC 17 L. C. Wood Collection (fl. 1920-1943) CSWC 18 Papers of Myra Carpenter (1900-1978) CSWC 19 Collection of Papers of Alexander Ramsay Mackenzie (1879-1929) and Eliza Jane Mackenzie (1879-1977) CSWC 20 Photographs of Emily Godfrey (1884-1978) CSWC 21 Papers of Ragnhild Whiting (1912-2018) and Sister Marjorie Raphael (b. 1923), Society of St Margaret, Haiti CSWC 22 Papers of E. M. T. Epelle (d. 1973) CSWC 23 Papers of John Robb Fleming (1910-1999) CSWC 24 Papers of George Armstrong Young (1898-1991) CSWC 25 Papers of Ernest Forrester-Paton (1891-1970) CSWC 26 Collection of Anthony James Broomhall (1911-1994) CSWC 27 Papers of Louie Cowie (1901-1995) CSWC 28 Collection of Stanley W. Smith (fl. 1937-1966) CSWC 29 Papers of Alan Cox (b. 1926) CSWC 30 Papers of Mark Glasswell (1938-1995) CSWC 31 Papers of James Kellock (1889-1968) CSWC 32 Papers of Margaret Clark (b. 1920) CSWC 33 Archives of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union CSWC 34 Papers of Frank Longley (fl. 1950) CSWC 35 Papers of Richard Baxter (1925-2009) CSWC 36 Papers of Adrian Hastings (1929-2001) CSWC 37 Papers of Colin Forrester-Paton (1918-2004) and Jean Forrester-Paton (1917-1998) CSWC 38 Papers of George Hood (b. 1917) CSWC 39 Papers of Thomas Colvin (1925-2000) CSWC 40 Church of Scotland China (Manchuria) Collection CSWC 41 Church of Scotland India and Nepal Collection CSWC 42 Church of Scotland (General, Malaysia, Southern Africa and Jerusalem) Collection CSWC 43 Papers of James Russell Macphail (1901-1968) CSWC 44 Papers of the Rt. Rev. Stanley Booth-Clibborn (1924-1996) CSWC 45 Papers of the Christian Institute of Southern Africa (and Christian Institute Fund) CSWC 46 Papers of Neil Bernard (1909-1991) CSWC 47 Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection CSWC 48 Papers of Duncan Forrester (b. 1933) CSWC 49 Papers of Fergus Macpherson (1921-2002) CSWC 50 Interserve Scotland CSWC 51 Latin Link CSWC 60 Photograph copies of sketches by the South African artist C. Bell of African congregations CSWC 61 Letter to Rev. T. H. Keir, Aberdeen, Scotland from Hugh E. Baikie, Beawar, India, 14 May 1946. CSWC 62 Photograph (copy) of the [Prophet] Garrick Sokari Braide CSWC 63 From England to Darkest Africa, memoirs by Captain F.J. Brown and related correspondence CSWC 64 Newspaper articles, ‘Diary Extracts’ by Rev, Alex Caseby, Malawi, 1977 CSWC 65 Photographs of the elders of Celestial Church of Christ, Nigeria CSWC 66 Photocopies of letters and a sketch from Alexander Duff, 1836-1880, India CSWC 67 Photocopy of manuscript and autobiography by Phoebe Evans on deputation in Madagascar, 1890-1975 CSWC 68 Photograph copy of a page of manuscript by J.N. Farquhar, India CSWC 69 Letter from M.F. Gartshore, Jamaica, 1944 CSWC 70 Autobiography and paper on Pygmies of Zaire by Herbert Jenkinson CSWC 71 Letter to Arthur Evans Moule from Thomas Jenner, China, 1911 CSWC 72 Postcard to John Mandeville Macfie, India from Rev. William Fraser, Aviemore about the Mahabharata translation, 1922 CSWC 73 Memoir by Robert Macpherson, Kenya, 1982 CSWC 74 Letters from R.R. Marett, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford to D.S. Cairns 1931 CSWC 75 Photographs of the church and congregations of the Nazaretha Church at eKuPhakameni, South Africa, 1976 CSWC 76 Photocopy of a letter to D.T. Niles from S.C. Neill, 1933 CSWC 77 Draft letter from Constance Padwick to The Muslim World with list of contacts for information about J. Athelston Cheese, 1966 CSWC 78 Letter from P.A. Roeykens, Congo, to Ruth Slade, 1957 CSWC 79 Letter from Rev. John Ross to his daughter Peggy Ross about Chinese religion, 1914 CSWC 80 Letter from George Selwyn to father William Selwyn describing tour of Pacific islands, with sketches, 1848 CSWC 81 Photocopies of letters by Mary Slessor on Calabar, Nigeria CSWC 82 Lecture on Kenya by David Steel, 1990 CSWC 83 Letter from Johannes Warneck to David Smith Cairns about commission IV report of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference CSWC 84 Photocopy of letter from John Wilson to Thomas Chalmers enclosing petition from Scottish missionaries in Bombay CSWC 85 Letter by Joseph Wolff to raise support for or encourage purchase of his book Journey to Bokhara, 1849 CSWC 86 Photographs of Yaqui Indians, dances, religious, ceremonies, and churches, by Jim A. Jones, April 1978 CSWC 87 Signed photograph of Dugald Christie, c 1910 CSWC 88 Part of a report on a visit to the Jeanes Training Centre with photographs, Zomba, Nyasaland, c 1930s CSWC 89 Papers, volumes, and photographs of Robert and Margaret Laws CSWC 90 Scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings about mission in Livingstonia, Malawi, 1874-1887 CSWC 91 Photographs of Viola Walker and Pygmies, 1910 CSWC 92 Copy of a (typed) manuscript memoir by George and Dorothy Barbour on their mission work in Peking (Beijing), China CSWC 94 Memoir by Barbara Pedersen of her time in Manchuria, China, 1912-1969 CSWC 95 PhD thesis by Wilfrid Stott on the Nanchao Kingdom, notes and reports on the Tai people in China CSWC 96 Reports on visits to Sichuan and Wenchuan by Thomas F. Torrance CSWC 97 Paper from Church of Christ in China for consultation on education, 1970 CSWC 98 Papers of Ralph Covell including notes and transcripts of interviews conducted with missionaries CSWC 99 Photocopies of biographical papers of Ebenezer Deas CSWC 100 Papers of Mary Findlay about Manchuria, a visit to Shenyang (1985-86)
