Category: Library & Archives

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.…

By Ellie Jones, Exeter Cathedral Archivist In 1538, Thomas Cromwell – England’s Vicar General and an advisor to Henry VIII – declared that all parishes…

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This week, for a change – ahead of International Archives Day on Monday 9 June – we’re turning our attention…

By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian When I began volunteering in the Cathedral Library on my return to Devon in 2018, I came across a booklet…

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.…