University of Southern California - Donald Gee Centre, Mattersey Hall, UK

Core Title Donald Gee Centre, Mattersey Hall, UK

Collection description The Donald Gee archives are located at Mattersey Hall, an interdenominational theological college founded and owned by British Assemblies of God and situated in England. The college is in the countryside of the East Midlands, in a north Nottinghamshire village six miles from Retford [SSE] and 14 miles from Doncaster, South Yorkshire [NW].

The documents shared here under the CCR scheme, are from the earliest organised European Pentecostal mission – the Pentecostal Missionary Union – founded in January 1909 under the guidance of the Anglican vicar of All Saints, Monkwearmouth, Revd. Alexander A. Boddy (1854-1930) and the CIM missionary Cecil H. Polhill (1860-1938), a wealthy member of the landed gentry. The PMU missionaries went to India, Congo and Brazil but mainly to China. They were sponsored largely by Polhill and people who attended the Whitsuntide convention (1908-14) in Monkwearmouth that created an informal European network of those newly baptised in the Holy Spirit. The items available here include the minutes of the PMU 1909-1939 (British Assemblies of God took on the missionaries and the administration as its own mission department as of 1925), letters between the home department and field members and photos of the people involved.

The archives themselves beyond the collection online here, contain administrative documents of The Assemblies of God in Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland (1925-present) and the Elim Pentecostal Church (1915-1995). There are also reel-to-reel tapes, books, letters, forms, photos and leaflets from the leaders of these two denominations, such as Donald Gee (1891-1966) himself, one of the main leaders in British AoG for the first half if the 20th Century. There are also sets of magazines from other streams of Pentecostal/Charismatic churches. Of particular interest to the global scene would be the collection on David Du Plessis (1905-87) who was active in promoting Pentecostalism in an ecumenical context.

Further significant holdings include much of the material belonging to the Fountain Trust (1964-80) founded by the Anglican Michael Harper (1931-2010) to support the Charismatic movement in the earlier years especially in the UK.

Copyrights: The copyright for the PMU materials are held by the Donald Gee Centre.
Copyrights for other materials are held by a number of other groups however, the 50 year rule means that much is out of copyright now.
Repository: Donald Gee Centre, c/o Mattersey Hall, Mattersey Nottinghamshire UK DN10 5HD, UK. dgarrard@matterseyhall.com

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

Unique identifier UC1STO861

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/pcra-oUC1STO861

Repository Name Donald Gee Research Centre Archive

Repository Location Donald Gee Centre, c/o Mattersey Hall, Mattersey Nottinghamshire UK DN10 5HD, UK