Promoting scholarly analysis and understanding of the Brethren movement. 

The aims of BAHN are: 

• • To encourage research into Brethren history world-wide, to assist those writing such history, and promote greater understanding of the development of the movement.
  • To publish, and support publication of, historical works on the Brethren, and to increase awareness of them.
  • To support the development of archives of Christian Brethren material, the deposit of material in such archives, and to make their resources better known.