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Christian Missions in Global History
Pollard Room, Tuesdays 17:30
Conveners: Rosemary Fitzgerald, Deborah Gaitskell, Lars Laamann, Emily Manktelow, Rosemary Seton, John Stuart
Conveners: Rosemary Fitzgerald, Deborah Gaitskell, Lars Laamann, Emily Manktelow, Rosemary Seton, John Stuart
| 19 January | Silke Strickrodt (German Historical Institute,London) Christian Missions and Female Education in West Africa: The Church Missionary Society's Female Institution in Freetown, Sierra Leone 1840s-1880s |
| 16 February | Guy Thomas (Mission 21, University of Basel) From missionary sketch maps to persuasive map-images: Religious and Spatial Transformation in Colonial Cameroon |
| 2 March | Jeff Cox (University of Iowa) What I learned about missions from writing The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700 |
| 16 March | Emily Manktelow (King's College, London) Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties": Moral Scrutiny and Missionary Children in the South Seas Mission of the LMS |
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| 20 April | Terry Barringer (Wolfson College, Cambridge) That home member of a mission without whom nothing can be done: Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901), Tractarian novelist and supporter of missions |
| 18 May | Paul Jenkins (former archivist, Basel Mission) Comparing pre-1914 photographs of Indian and West African Princes in the Basel Mission archive: a vague sense of difference becomes an in-depth contrast |
| 15 June | Hugh Morrison (University of Otago) In the same high spirit of service and sacrifice: New Zealand and Canadian Protestant children engaging with missions and empire, 1890-1940 |