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A repository of source materials on the work of the Church Missionary Society, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active. It includes records of both the CMS and the many other missionary societies which have become associated or amalgamated with it over its lifetime.

This resource encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, and the South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports.

The Confidential Print series preserves papers generated by the British Government's Foreign and Colonial Offices. The Latin America collection's documents extend from the 1830s to the 1960s and cover all countries of mainland South and Central America, plus Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Topics covered include slavery and the slave trade, immigration, relations with Indigenous peoples, wars and territorial disputes, the fall of the Brazilian monarchy, British business and financial interests, industrial development, the Panama Canal, and the rise to power of populist leaders.