From the Archives: Goring, Oxfordshire
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Every year, when the Cathedral School breaks up for the long summer holidays, the Cathedral welcomes a series of visiting
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Every year, when the Cathedral School breaks up for the long summer holidays, the Cathedral welcomes a series of visiting
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
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
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