Category: Library & Archives

By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Nikephorus Kallistos Xanthopoulos, a Greek historian born around 1256, was apparently about 14 years old when he began researching his…

By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Earlier this year, I presented a talk at The Royal Society’s conference on ‘Libraries of Science’. This one-day event brought…

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Copplestone is a small village in mid-Devon, 13 miles northwest of Exeter. It has no parish church of its own,…

By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian I belong to a book group in the town where I live. We circulate ideas for books to read via…

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist There are approximately 1,000 charters which survive from Anglo Saxon England. Sixteen of them are in the Exeter Cathedral Archives.…

By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Friday 14 March is International Pi Day. It makes better sense in America where the month is typically written before…

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This month’s Library and Archives In Focus event is on the theme of food and drink. The irony of this…

By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Frederic Charles Cook (1804-1889) was not originally from Devon. He was born in Hampshire, studied at Cambridge and Bonn, was…

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This engraving was published in the Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, containing a series of elegant Views of the Most Interesting…