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Baptist Organisations

Baptists have created a range of organisations through their history. Below is a list of histories that tell the various stories. The most influential have been the Unions and the Baptist Missionary Society and alongside them the different Colleges for the training and formation of ministers.

Baptist Unions and the Baptist Missionary Society

  • The Baptist Union: A Short History by Ernest A. Payne (1959)
  • A History of the Baptist Missionary Society: 1972-1992 by Brian Stanley (T & T Clark, 1992)
  • The Search for a Common Identity: The Origins of the Baptist Union of Scotland 1800-1870 by Brian Talbot (2003)
  • Building on a Common Foundation: The Baptist Union of Scotland, 1869-2019 by B. R. Talbot (Pickwick, 2021)
  • Baptists in Wales by T M Bassett (1991)


Baptist College Histories

  • The Story of Bristol Baptist College: Three Hundred Years of Ministerial Formation by Ruth Gouldbourne and Anthony R. Cross (Pickwick, 2022)
  • A Dissenting Spirit: A History of Regent’s Park College, 1752-2017 by Anthony Clarke and Paul S. Fiddes (2017)
  • The Making of Northern Baptist College by Peter Shepherd (2004)
  • A School of Prophets: 150 Years of Spurgeon’s College by Ian Randall (2005)
  • From Abergavenny to Cardiff: A history of the South Wales Baptist College (1806-2006) by D. Hugh Matthews (2007)
  • Scottish Baptist College: Centenary History 1894-1994 by Derek B. Murray (1994)


Other Baptist Organisations

  • Fifty Years of Achievement: The Baptist Women’s League 1908-1958 (1958)
  • The Baptist Insurance Company Limited: A Short History of Seventy-five Years 1905-1980 by C. J. L. Colvin (1980)
  • A Popular History of the Baptist Building Fund 1824-1924 by Seymour J. Price (1924)
  • In Trust and by Faith: 100 years of London Baptist Property Board by Brian Bowers (2006)
  • Years of Jubilee: The Story of fifty Years of the London Baptist Property Board, Ltd 1906-1956 by W. Charles Johnson (1956)
  • The Story of Operation Agri: the first 25 years 1971-1986
  • The Psalms and Hymns Trust: A Short History of the Trust and the work of publishing hymns books by R. Thomson (1960)
  • God at Work with Men: 80 Years of the Baptist Men’s Movement by K. Bennett (1997)
  • Venture in Faith: The Story of the West Ham Central Mission by Paul Rowntree Clifford (1950)
  • Money, Mission, and Ministry: Particular Baptist Fund 1717-2017 by Tim Grass (2017)
  • The Holiday Plus: A celebration of BMS and BU Summer Schools 1910-89 by Norman Kember (1989)
  • Sisters of the People: The Order of Deaconesses 1890-1975 by Nicola Morris. CCSRG Research Paper (2002)
  • Seedbed for Baptist Leadership: The Baptist Students Federation from 1947 to the 1970s by Ian Randall, Baptist Quarterly 44.6 (2012) 
  • The Baptist Revival Fellowship by Phil Hill (Wipf and Stock, 2019)
  • ‘Mainstream: "far greater ambitions" — An evaluation of Mainstream’s Contribution to the Renewal of Denominational Life, 1979-1994’ by Derek Tidball in Grounded in Grace edited by Pieter J. Lalleman et al (2013), 202-222.
     
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