Abstract
In the years since its founding in 1978, the Payap University Archives, Chiang Mai, Thailand, has acquired a large collection of materials related to the history of Protestant missions and churches in Thailand. Those materials represent a unique window on a diverse range of fields and subjects related to the history of Thailand. The archives, however, remains relatively unknown outside of Thailand, hence this note. In 1978 the Protestant churches of Thailand celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first Protestant missionaries in Thailand. At that time the Church of Christ in Thailand sought means to care for older records that were then being stored in a godown in Bangkok, and it approached Payap University (then Payap College) with the problem. In May of that year the university opened its archives with a part-time staff of two instructors and one student. Within two years the archives employed five full-time staff members and drew on several student assistants as well. The Payap archives became the second fully functioning archives in the Kingdom and was the first private archives, the first university archives, and the first archives outside of Bangkok. It is also one of the few full-service church archives in Asia. Two members of the staff have been trained at the archives school of the National Archives of India.
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