Literacy, Literature and Libraries. A Story to Celebrate The First Jubilee of Feed the Minds, 1964-2014
RESOURCES
SPCK – Two Major Histories covering the 18th and 19th centuries
- WOB Allen and Edmund McClure. The History of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,1698-1898. London, 1898, 551 pages.
- WK Lowther Clarke, History of the SPCK, London, 1959. 244 pages
RTS/USCL – Three Major Histories at intervals of 50 years
- The First Jubilee of the Religious Tract Society, 1849, 730 pages ('exhaustive')
- The Second Jubilee of the Religious Tract Society, 1899, 200 pages ('select but comprehensive')
- Gordon Hewitt, Let the People Read, 1948, 100 pages ('a telegram')
See also
- William Jones, The Jubilee Memorial Of The Religious Tract Society:
- Containing A Record Of its Origin, Proceedings, And Results, 1799 To 1849,
- cççNabu Press, 2011
- J H Mair, Books in Their Hands. A Short History of the USCL, USCL Scotland, (late 60s)
- John Murdoch — Pioneer in Christian Literature, USCL Scotland, 1976
The Major Task of the United Society for Christian Literature is not to send books written in the West to the Third World. It is to encourage the development of indigenous writing and publishing . . . books in the local idiom . . . with a local flavour . . . relating to (local) problems and earthing the Christian message in the soil of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
John Murdoch
FTM – Three Booklets setting out the antecedents to Feed the Minds
- Literature and the Gospel. The Work and Aims of the Christan Literature Fund. An Interim Report, 1965-68
- Eve Walber, Book Story, SPCK/USCL, London,1972.
- Eve Walber, People Above All, CLD, London, 1972