The Moving Stones of Dartmoor
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 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
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist December is an interesting time at the Cathedral. Life gets busier and busier in the Cathedral with Advent and Christmas
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian This notebook, a recent donation, is blank apart from handwritten notes – possibly sermon notes – on Genesis and Revelation,
By N. Jaberi and Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Soil is that vital mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and small organisms that is so
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Once described as “a thick-set, bandy-legged man with puck-like nose and chin, but with a good-humoured expression of face, pleasant
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Hampers, baskets and drawers were the storage containers of choice for the Cathedral’s archives in the past, before neat rows
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This fine example of a medieval will was made by Henry de Berbilonde in 1296. Berbilonde was one of the
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This letter addressed to Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter and to Thomas, Earl of Devon asks for help in petitioning
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This poor letter is in terrible condition. It has been badly damaged by long exposure to damp and stone dust.