Archival Collections
There are three main archival collections, as described below. Other materials remain in the private possession of the Ellul family.
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois
Link to site: https://archives.wheaton.edu/repositories/5/resources/906
For assistance, please contact archives@wheaton.edu
The Ellul collection at Wheaton College began as a gift from alumna Joyce Hanks. It contains numerous published works by or about Ellul, but the bulk of the collection is a three-reel microfilm set that follows Jacques Ellul: A Comprehensive Bibliography, compiled by Joyce Main Hanks. The microfilm contains many of the hard-to-find Ellul essays, speeches, and lectures. Prints from the microfilm, numbering over 6,000, comprise most of the collection. The writings range in date from 1936 to 1983. The microfilm prints are followed by holographic and xerographic manuscripts of some of his books, lectures and addresses, and notes. The collection also contains media material, including interviews conducted by Joyce Hanks and others. This media has not yet been transcribed. Secondary material, dating from 1939 to 1984, completes the collection, containing critical reviews, correspondence concerning Ellul, and periodicals.
Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
Link to site: https://allisonlibrary.regent-college.edu/archives
For assistance, please contact library@regent-college.edu
A gift to the college by Ellul’s bibliographer Joyce Main Hanks, the Jacques Ellul Collection at Regent College seeks to offer readers and researchers a complete collection of his books, most of his articles, as well as many of the references and responses to his work, including interviews and reviews. These materials have been organized chronologically, following the order of the published Ellul bibliographies. Highlights of the archive includes issues of the Ellul Forum, a publication that seeks to build on Ellul’s ideas and apply them to contemporary society, and a book of Ellul’s university lectures, Les successeurs de Marx, edited by three Ellul specialists.
University of Bordeaux
Link to site: https://calames.abes.fr/pub/#details?id=FileId-1708
For assistance, please contact infodoc@sciencespobordeaux.fr
Jean, the eldest of Jacques Ellul’s children, wanted to give his father’s library to our francophone sister society, the Association international Jacques Ellul. By common agreement, it was decided that a university setting would be better for preserving and classifying these precious documents so that researchers could access them. The AIJE president, who was at that time on the faculty of Sciences Po, then made contact with the institution’s director and served as the intermediary between Jean Ellul and the library.
More information is also available at https://www.jacques-ellul.org/archives