Thinking about Missionaries’ Children in the History of Christian Missions
By Dr Hugh Morrison
CCCW-DIVFAC SEMINARS 2023-2024
28 November 2023, 4-5.30pm, Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
This paper marks a reflective end point for a project focused on the historical lives of British-world Protestant missionaries’ children, from the 1870s to the 1950s. While large in number, their voices were seldom heard and their lives until recently largely untold. This current study takes a more broadly comparative approach (using Scottish and New Zealand Presbyterianism as examples), focusing particularly on the early twentieth century. As such it utilises a range of published and unpublished sources, including oral history and written memoirs.
