Our latest blog post is now live. www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int... It looks at the history of The Salvation Army in Korea from 1908 to the present day.

'The Young Soldier' carried strip cartoons from the late 1920s onwards. Including The Bunny Boys and Billy The Bear.

Exciting News!! 👇 'The Young Soldier' - The Longest Running Children's Periodical In The World- has now been digitised by the British Newspaper Archive. First published as 'The Little Soldier' in 1881, it's still published weekly as 'Kids Alive!' www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/young... 🔒

We've just received the bound annual volumes of the Salvation Army periodicals for 2025. These join our volumes going back to the 1880s. You can access The War Cry, & other Salvation Army titles, on the British Newspaper Archive from 1879 to 1985. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/war-cry

Unfortunately, due to the extremely hot weather forecast for London later this week, the Salvation Army Heritage Centre will be closed Tues 23, Weds 24 and Thurs 25 June. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Check out our latest blog post 👇. It looks at the relationship between The Salvation Army and the Edwardian novelists Henry Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Haggard worked closely with The Salvation Army and wrote about its social work. www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

Great to see this @luciejones83.bsky.social. The Old Street Hostel for Working Men opened in the former Old Street Brewery in 1891. It was originally called an 'Elevator' as it was designed to lift men out of poverty. It closed in 1965 and the building is now, appropriately, the HQ of Shelter.

It's great to see this fantastic article by Erica Bowler out ahead-of-print in @jofvictculture.bsky.social It looks at the life of the activist, Rebecca Jarrett, in the years after the 1885 Maiden Tribute case & draws on her letters and memoirs held in our archive academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...

#AboutAppraisals We received a very large transfer of architectural plans of Salvation Army buildings last year. Some plans are in very poor condition, while many are duplicates or show only minor details (like door handles). So we are appraising them to keep the most relevant examples. #Archive30

🥳We're so pleased to announce that two Salvation Army periodicals are now available on the British Newspaper Archive. 'The War Cry' for 1879-1985 & 'The Social Gazette' for its entire run of 1893-1917. A total of more than 70,000 pages! 🙌 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/war-cry 🔒

The Heritage Centre recently received this donations envelope from the 1946 Self-Denial fundraising appeal. It was found in someone's house and still has a coin inside (we haven't opened it!), so the donation clearly never made it to us. Better late than never!

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This collection of architectural plans is still bringing up some treasures: Edinburgh Women's Hostel, 1912 East Dereham corps hall, 1929 Hillingdon corps hall, 1966

We're very excited to see this new book about W T Stead from Philip March that arrived in the post today! It draws on research including archives and publication about Stead that we hold.

And also the hall at Harlow New Town, William Charles, Salvation Army Architects Department, 1962

Wycliffe Noble, as well as an architect, was also the drummer with the Salvation Army pop group The Joy Strings. Shown here in Hendon hall in 1973 (The hall was demolished in 2017).

We've had a huge accession of Salvation Army architectural plans covering the whole of the UK. Here are some lovely plans from the new hall at Hendon, designed in 1957 by C Wycliffe Noble

These Life Assurance companies were similar to, but different from The Salvation Army Assurance Society, whose records we hold. archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archi...

“Get rid of fashion”: Our Archivist, Ruth Macdonald, has written this article with Dr Flore Janssen ‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬ in the 'Journal of Historical Research in Marketing' exploring the marketing and retailing of clothing and uniform by The Salvation Army. doi.org/10.1108/JHRM...

A number of periodicals for members of The Salvation Army published surprisingly detailed advice for cyclists in the 1890s: "Be it remembered, However Nice A Bicycle Looks, that, in itself, stands for nothing." 'Assurance' August 1898 p76

#WorldBicycleDay The Salvation Army saw the potential of bicycles to spread the gospel in the 1880s and set up the Iron Horse Artillery. Evangelical Cycle Brigades followed in the 1890s.

📯NEW BLOG POST📯 Read about the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland in 1914, the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history. 1,012 people lost their lives amongst them 171 Salvationists, bound for the fourth Salvation Army International Congress www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

We're making the most of being in Belgium #frites

For #InternationalNursesDay, a photograph from 1926 of nurses at the Salvation Army's Mothers' Hospital in Hackney. #HackneyHistory www.salvationist.org.uk/articles/cal...

This was the Holloway 1 Citadel of The Salvation Army, built 1890-1891, the total cost of the land and construction amounted to nearly £5,000. This drawing of the inside is from the opening report in 'The War Cry' newspaper for 23 May 1891

These bear comparison with uniforms worn by Salvation Army 'Slum Sisters' in the late C19th. Providing practical support to people living in deprived areas (where often even the police would be reluctant to venture), the special uniform legitimated the Salvationists' presence in these communities

📯NEW BLOG POST📯 Read about the scout and guide troops run by The Salvation Army in our new blog. Known as the Life-Saving Scouts and Life-Saving Guards, they also had junior troops called Chums and Sunbeams. www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

Some of 'Minnie's' letters display fearsome examples of Victorian cross-writing! Where the paper is written on once and then again at right-angles.

Brilliant to see this article by @ellencssmith.bsky.social in print. Ellen used some of the letters we hold from Wilhelmina Murray written during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. One of our lesser-known collections!

I wish we had peregrines in our tower!