A Year of Two Elections
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 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
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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
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist May is Local & Community History Month, which seems like a good opportunity to highlight the astonishing range of places
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist William Alley (1510-1570) was Bishop of Exeter from 1560 until his death in April 1570. He was born in Buckinghamshire,
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist These two illustrations show the entrance to the old College of the Vicars Choral in the Cathedral Close. The watercolour
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Saint David, whose feast day falls on 1 March, was a 6th century Welsh bishop best known as a patron saint of
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This pen and ink drawing with watercolour pigments is known at the Cathedral as the ‘Leakey Watercolour’. It shows the