Category: Library & Archives

By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian I belong to a book group in the town where I live. We circulate ideas for books to read via…

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 Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Friday 14 March is International Pi Day. It makes better sense in America where the month is typically written before…

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 Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Frederic Charles Cook (1804-1889) was not originally from Devon. He was born in Hampshire, studied at Cambridge and Bonn, was…

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 Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Today the Church of England remembers the life and work of Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva from 1602 until…

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 Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian William Laud was Archbishop of Canterbury during the latter part of the reign of Charles I and acted as his…