Victorian Missions

Glimpses of Christian India with Ella Luce

Ella Luce [1860-1943] vividly recalls her long service in India with the Zenana Medical mission extending from 1888-1922. My thanks…

7 years ago

Fanny Jane Butler – Pioneer Medical Missionary to India

Dr Fanny Jane Butler was, according to Wikipedia, ...among the first female doctors to travel to India and the first…

7 years ago

Zenana Missions in India

What were Zenana Missions? Zenana refers "...to the part of a house belonging to a Hindu or Muslim family in South Asia…

8 years ago

Letters of Edward Petter

Over the last few years as part of my "day job" I have been transcribing around 500 handwritten letters written by…

9 years ago

Missionary Heroines of the Cross On-line

Canon E.C. Dawson's biographical study of Missionary Heroines of the 19th Century is now available for free download in PDF.…

9 years ago

China Past and Present

My wife Michelle and I have decided to digitise a number of Sunday magazines from the Victorian Era, starting with…

9 years ago
Changing Lives and Communities for Christ – Victorian Style.

Changing Lives and Communities for Christ – Victorian Style.

From: “Far and Near: Notes of the Month,” Sunday At Home 1902-1903, pages 137-138 Casting Out Devils In Birmingham [p.137]…

12 years ago

Dr Barnardo’s Pub Ministry

How a notorious Gin-Palace became a Mission Hall and Community Centre as a result of the work of Dr Barnardo.…

12 years ago

Mission and Meaning: Essays in Honour of Peter Cotterell now Online

The following book is now online in PDF: Antony Billington, Tony Lane & Max Turner, editors. Mission and Meaning. Essays…

15 years ago