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Women's Studies - Archives of
the Congregational Union relating to the history of women within the
denomination
General:
- General
Purposes Committee, 1876-1966, more
particularly the Minute Book for 1893-1910, pp. 402-404, where can be
found a
recommendation to admit women as accredited ministers of the
denomination
Pensions:
records of the
- Congregational
Pastors’ Widows’ Fund Association, 1871-1960.
- the
Surrey Fund for Widows of Congregational Ministers, 1876-93,continued
as the United Counties Fund, 1893-1930.
- Fen
Place: a Home for Retired Congregational Ministers and their Wives,
1952-76 (+
preliminary investigations, 1949-52.)
Men
and Women:
records
of the
- Committee
re Women's Work, 1915-22.
- Women’s
Guild, 1922-40.
- Federation
of Congregational Women (Women’s Committee), 1941-66, with
letters to Secretaries of County Women’s
Committees, 1957-66.
- Ad
Hoc Group on Cooperation of Men and Women, 1962-63.
- Printed
reports and studies on matters concerning women, 1934-62.
- Printed
reports and studies issued by the World Council of Churches, 1948-70.
Education:
- Conference
of Headmasters and Headmistresses of the Free Church
Schools,
1934-38, preceded
by Meeting of the Education Committee together with the Headmasters and
Headmistresses, 1934.
- A
file of correspondence kept by John
Huxtable1954-62,
concerning
Milton Mount College,
“established in 1871 primarily
for the Education of the Daughters of Congregational
ministers.”
Personal:
- A
letter of Katherine M. Horne
(wife of Silvester Horne, d. 1914), with
correspondence concerning its discovery, 1974.
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