Recently added grants from the archive.
The Duke Humfrey New Testament (now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Duke Humfrey c. 1) is an illuminated copy of the first complete Old French translation of the New Testament, known as the ‘version du xiiiᵉ siècle’. This translation is the work of Dominican scholars working in Paris between 1235 and 1260.…
Considered one of the most important English poets of the 19th century, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prominent writer of the Victorian period. These letters, predominantly written from Barrett Browning to her sister Henrietta Surtees Cook, offer valuable insight into her work, public reception and social networks.…
John Cole (1792-1848) was a 19th-century bookseller, writer, publisher and antiquarian and an under-researched character in the regional book trade. As a young man he was apprenticed to a bookseller and bookbinder in Northampton.…
The Use of the Church of York was one of the religious rites practised in England before the Reformation. It had variations from the Uses of the Church of Salisbury, the Church of Hereford, and the Church of Bangor.…
Eric Walrond was an unassuming Caribbean man who lived in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, in the 1940s. He worked at a local factory, lodged in the town and went 'under the radar' - apart from being the only Black resident in a town of 4,000 people.…
Though he only lived to 41, World War II cryptanalyst and mathematician Alan Turing made groundbreaking contributions to the early development of artificial intelligence, computer science and what is now known as epigenetics.…
Henry Dresser (1838-1915) was one of the most significant and influential ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This set of volumes is Dresser’s unique author’s copy and includes the original, hand-coloured plates that were used as colour masters for the lithographs that were eventually published and sold by subscription.…
This diary, compiled by the author and journalist Hugh de Sélincourt for his lover, the German translator and writer Eva Schumann, is written with fluency and writerly skill, conveying the day-to-day uncertainties and privations of the Phoney War.…
Title deeds and associated papers relating to the Great House Estate in West Hoathly and the manor of West Hoathly Rectory. Dating from 1453 to 1964, this is a remarkably complete collection comprising several hundred documents.…
