4Salvation Army Heritage Centre

www.salvationarmy.org.uk/ international-heritage- centre

The heritage centre in William Booth College houses a reference library, archive and museum collections. There are useful subject guides, including records of Salvation Army ( SA) ministers, but I particularly recommend the heritage centre blog ( www.salvationarmy.org.uk/history/our- blog), which, at time of writing, included a recent post about interviews of women seeking admission to SA homes.

It focuses on Book No. 53, covering October 1915- March 1916, when some 700 women and girls sought aid. Of those more than 400 were maternity cases, and nearly half went on to be admitted to SA homes.