This set of diaries provides a rare insight into the Evangelical work of the Mission in Plymouth. Many entries relate to the victims of the cholera ourbreak.
29 vols of diaries, 20 vols of pocket notebooks and 13 vols of bank pass books.
76 page notebook, diary entries from 5th September to 12 October 1854 with sketches and diagrams showing troop positions and orders of march.
Parts of this diary were published by William Barnes the Dorset dialect poet
In this diary Wild records Shackleton and his companions painful progress over the Polar Plateau, their decision to turn back and their desperate struggle to regain the ship.
The diary is the earliest and fullest of Briggs writings on Natural History
Sam Jolley, Assistant Curator, writes: The Anglo-Zulu War (1879) was fought between the British and the Zulu kingdom of Cetshwayo kaMpande.
Jonathan Hopson, Librarian, writes: Elizabeth Fitzgerald (known as ‘Duffy’) trained at the Central School of Art, where she met the painter Micha
Steven Spencer, Director, writes: In 1865, William Booth, a former Methodist minister and his wife, Catherine, an independent evangelist, founded a Chr
The diary together with a volume of autobiography gives a very detailed picture of the life thoughts and opinions of the great leader of the Evangelical wing of the Church of England and prime move
65 documents, many are letters addressed to Captain Thomas Brodnax of Canterbury and Godmersham Park, giving military commands and are signed by key figures including John Dixwell, one of the regic
Buxton was Wilberforces designated successor as leader of the parliamentary anti-slavery campaign. The MSS document the Buxton familys close involvement in the parliamentary campaign of 1833.