Library & Archives In Focus: Between the Covers
Library & Archives In Focus: Between the Covers Thursday 4 December | Drop in 1pm – 3pm | Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives People leave the strangest things inside books: we have found everything from pressed ferns, drawings and poems to newspaper cuttings, letters and photographs – and even a pair of scissors and a […]
Art of the Book: The Anatomy of Books
Art of the Book: The Anatomy of Books Tuesday 11 November 2025 | 2pm – 3:30pm | Cathedral Library, West Wing of the Bishop’s Palace In this practical session, you will explore remarkable early printed books in the Cathedral Library to discover clues to how books were printed, sewn and bound in the hand-press period. Places […]
2025 Annual Library Lecture: The secrets and silences of Exon Domesday
2025 Annual Library Lecture: The secrets and silences of Exon Domesday Thursday 30 October 2025 | 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm) | The Chapter House Exon Domesday is the oldest of the three original manuscripts surviving from William the Conqueror’s Domesday Survey of 1086. It was long recognised as connected with Domesday Book, but its […]
The Old Document Reading Group
The Old Document Reading Group Thursday 19 March 2026 | 6:15pm-7:30pm | The Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room This event is now fully booked. Are you struggling to read old handwriting, but don’t have anyone to turn to for help? Have you become rusty with your palaeographical skills? Do you enjoy word puzzles and […]
The Old Document Reading Group
The Old Document Reading Group Thursday 19 February 2026 | 6:15pm-7:30pm | The Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room This event is now fully booked. Are you struggling to read old handwriting, but don’t have anyone to turn to for help? Have you become rusty with your palaeographical skills? Do you enjoy word puzzles and […]
The Old Document Reading Group
The Old Document Reading Group Thursday 15 January 2026 | 6:15pm-7:30pm | The Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room This event is now fully booked. Are you struggling to read old handwriting, but don’t have anyone to turn to for help? Have you become rusty with your palaeographical skills? Do you enjoy word puzzles and […]
The Old Document Reading Group
The Old Document Reading Group Thursday 20 November | 6:15pm-7:30pm | The Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room This event is now fully booked. Are you struggling to read old handwriting, but don’t have anyone to turn to for help? Have you become rusty with your palaeographical skills? Do you enjoy word puzzles and deciphering […]
The Old Document Reading Group
The Old Document Reading Group Thursday 16 October | 6:15pm-7:30pm | The Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room This event is now fully booked. Are you struggling to read old handwriting, but don’t have anyone to turn to for help? Have you become rusty with your palaeographical skills? Do you enjoy word puzzles and deciphering […]