Catalogue description Edward Ralph Wickham, Sheffield Diocesan Missioner to Industry and Bishop of Middleton, records

Records including notes regarding industrial chaplaincies and papers concerning his work at Swynnerton and Shrewsbury Hospital 1938-1950; papers regarding Sheffield Industrial Mission activity at various firms 1944-1956 and files of progress reports, meetings and inter-work conferences for individual steel works 1951-1961; minutes of Sheffield Industrial Mission lay leaders' meetings 1958-1964; notebooks, sermons, addresses and other similar items c1938-1975; annotated copies of his articles on Sheffield Industrial Mission and other themes 1952-1989; research notes, correspondence, draft and typescript of 'Church and People in an Industrial City'; pamphlets and leaflets regarding Sheffield Industrial Mission c1960; newspaper cuttings; reports and papers on theological views, Sheffield Industrial Mission and other similar matters 1959-1973; papers regarding Board for Social Responsibility Industrial Committee 1970s; papers concerning other Industrial Missions around the world 1951-1984, in particular broader Manchester; reports by Philip Blay on interviews with past associates of Sheffield Industrial Mission 1984; correspondence about the 50th anniversary of Sheffield Industrial Mission 1993-1996; papers concerning work at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Swynnerton 1942-1944.

Wickham, Edward Ralph, Sheffield Diocesan Missioner to Industry and Bishop of Middleton, alias Ted

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• Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
• Religious movements

Deposited by Helen Wickham who is the widow of Edward Wickham. Family and personal papers returned to the family. For copyright and other enquiries contact Edward Wickhams daughter, Jenny Wickham.

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