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Under the Skin: Peeling Back the Layers of Old Books
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian This book has seen better days. True, there are no queues at the West Wing door to see it today…
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International Cat Day
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Every Cat-hedral has its cat stories (sorry, I couldn’t resist!) and Exeter is no exception. From unnamed cats on the…
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Across the Board
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian This engraved plate is from the Cathedral Library’s first-edition copy of De Ludis Orientalibus Libri Duo, a history of Eastern…
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The Significance of Shakespeare’s Second Folio
By Myrtle, Exeter Cathedral Work Experience Student Synonymous with English literature is William Shakespeare, the playwright known as The Bard. Exeter Cathedral holds the 1632…
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The Bug Stops Here
By Cathedral Librarian, Emma Laws Library and archive collections contain all sorts of delicious materials for bugs: paper, parchment, wooden boards on medieval bindings, textiles…
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Highlights of The Cathedral Library & Archives Work Experience Week 2025
By Rosa and James, Exeter Cathedral Work Experience Students We have experienced an eventful week in the Library and Archives. From learning about how to…
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CALCA Conference 2025
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Last week, the annual conference of the Cathedral Archives, Libraries and Collections Association of the UK and Ireland (CALCA) took…
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How to Catalogue a Library
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian. This little book would probably have been of great interest to my Victorian predecessors in the Cathedral Library: Henry B.…
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Parish Registers
By Ellie Jones, Exeter Cathedral Archivist In 1538, Thomas Cromwell – England’s Vicar General and an advisor to Henry VIII – declared that all parishes…
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International Archives Day: Chapter Acts and Minutes
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This week, for a change – ahead of International Archives Day on Monday 9 June – we’re turning our attention…