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By Canon Chris Palmer “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…” These famous words were written in…

Next Wednesday, 5th May, the world will celebrate International Day of the Midwife. Perhaps surprisingly, Exeter Cathedral has a high number of midwifery books in…

Margaret MacMillan War: How Conflict Shaped Us To make sense of our past we need to study war. So argues Margaret MacMillan in this book…

By The Rev’d Preb Julian Ould Easter Day has come and gone but has it made a difference? In answer, it’s fair to say that…

By The Revd Canon Cate Edmonds I’m not sure what piqued my sudden interest in the Ammas, the Desert Mothers, but I was keen to…

Ellie Jones, Exeter Cathedral’s Archivist, has taken another deep dive into the many thousands of books and documents housed in our Library and Archives.  …

This new short film reveals the archaeological work that has been taking place in the east end of Exeter Cathedral, while the area has been…

By The Ven David Gunn-Johnson After almost 40 years I still remember the very first funeral I took. The service was to be Book of…

Philip Stephens Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit In 1962 Dean Acheson, an American statesman, stated that Britain had lost an empire and…

University of Exeter archaeology student Laila introduces her favourite collection at Exeter Cathedral’s Library.   I chose the Cathedral Library’s medical collection to write about…