The Old Document Reading Group
The Old Document Reading Group Thursday 18 September | 6:15pm-7:30pm | The Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room Are you struggling to read old handwriting,
The Old Document Reading Group Thursday 18 September | 6:15pm-7:30pm | The Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room Are you struggling to read old handwriting,
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 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,
Exeter Cathedral’s Eco Committee Meet the staff who work together as part of Exeter Cathedral’s Eco Committee, helping us to meet our sustainability goals. Eco
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Wheelbarrows are so ordinary that most people probably don’t give them much thought. They crop up so often in certain
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 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 Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This engraving was published in the Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, containing a series of elegant Views of the Most Interesting
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This week in the Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives we celebrated “Appreciate a Dragon Day” (16 January) with an In