Category: Library & 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…

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…

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…