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By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This week we have been celebrating Heritage Open Days, England’s “largest community led festival of history and culture”, with a

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist The earliest references to bells at the Cathedral occur in Bishop Leofric’s time during the mid-11th century. Various re-castings, additions

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This print, enhanced with bright gold highlights, shows the Cathedral’s seventeenth century reredos. A reredos is a decorated screen which

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Each year, around the time of St Sidwell’s day (2 August) we like to focus on one of the many

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This year The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) celebrates 200 years, during which time they have saved more than 140,000

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This satirical broadside was one of a series produced in 1868, a year of two elections in Exeter, just as

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist “To the historian and the archaeologist these Archives are an almost unworked mine of priceless worth… the careful student of

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Nutcombe Nutcombe is a memorable sort of name, and one which many visitors comment on when they see it on

By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist and Marie Jäcker, medieval historian at Kiel University, Germany The accounts of Exeter Cathedral’s Fabric Fund are an incredible source of information