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CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION

Once again, the range of contributions to this newsletter illustrates the richness and variety of cathedral archives and libraries. Many cathedrals will have hosted some kind of commemorative service or event in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this year, and no doubt librarians and archivists have been busy with displays and exhibitions of earlier royal jubilees to put it all in context. No doubt cathedrals are beginning to think ahead to the nationwide commemoration of the beginning of the First World War in 2014, and again, they will have much to contribute. And there will be Magna Carta in 2015... There is virtually no chapter of the history of the British Isles which cannot be illustrated from the rich resources of which we are the custodians. Cathedral libraries and archives continue to play a vital part, not just in the life and work of their respective cathedrals, but within their localities, and in the nation as a whole.

Peter Atkinson, Dean of Worcester

CLAA NEWS

CLAA 2013 Triennial Conference CLAA Website Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, and the The committee is looking for some assistance in committee, very much look forward to welcoming developing and maintaining the CLAA website. If CLAA members to the conference next year in you would be interested in this, please contact Dublin, from 19 th to 21 st June 2013. Details Gudrun Warren at [email protected] appeared in the summer newsletter, and further information will be circulated by email, and made Editor available on our webpages, in due course. The title of the conference is ‘The Cathedral as cultural focus in a metropolitan setting’. The fee is expected to be 115 Euro/£92, which will include all sessions and some meals.

Editor

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES

Religious Archives Group Conference Exeter Cathedral Archives and Library. For further The RAG 2013 conference will take place on Friday details, please see the webpages at 26 th April, at London Metropolitan Archives. The http://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk/conferences/ theme is ‘Localism in Religious Archives’; the conference is due to include a presentation on Editor

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1 NEWS FROM MEMBERS

Canterbury Cathedral St Edmunds, London, Runnymede and St Albans. The year-long building project at Canterbury Canterbury’s association is through Archbishop Cathedral Archives is nearing completion. The roof Stephen Langton: we do not hold a copy of Magna of the building has been replaced, with other Carta, while Lincoln, Salisbury, Hereford and essential works carried out; currently underway is Durham Cathedrals do. Planning for the process of moving back in! The project has been commemorations for the 800 th anniversary of completed with a generous grant from the Albert Magna Carta in 2015 is well underway: see Reckitt Trust. The joint reading room for the www.magnacarta800 th .com for full details. Archives and Library will reopen towards the end of January 2013, with full services resuming at that Karen Brayshaw, Canterbury Cathedral Library stage. During the building works, the Cathedral Cressida Williams, Canterbury Cathedral Archives Library has operated a temporary reading room in the Library buildings. Durham Cathedral In August was launched the latest collaborative Restoration: Bishop Cosin, his Library project between the Cathedral Library and the and the changing face of Durham Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies At Durham University Library we celebrated the (MEMS) at the University of Kent. ‘Picture this...’ is 350 th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common a monthly feature appearing on the Library Prayer by mounting an exhibition on the life and webpages. Since August, a new image and work of its main compiler, Bishop John Cosin (1595- accompanying text, written by members of MEMS 1672), and reopening his newly restored library and by Prof James Carley, have been added each building. We felt that too often Cosin had merely month, with articles from previous months been seen as the organiser of the new edition of the becoming part of the web- archive, readily available BCP and that not enough attention had been paid for reference or research. This project will reveal to all he did in the 1660s to ensure the restoration some of the treasures hidden within the Library, and of the Anglican Church, the monarchy and the make them more accessible to a wider audience. diocese and city of Durham. Early in the New Year, postgraduate students from MEMS and visiting European PhD students from As a reward for his loyalty to the Crown (he was the Text and Event in Early Modern Europe project chaplain to the Queen’s court in exile from 1644 to (TEEME) will be invited to attend a ‘Picture this...’ 1660) and his tireless work to keep the Anglican writing workshop in the Cathedral Library. Church alive during the Civil War and Commonwealth periods, he was awarded the This new feature has brought in some comments bishopric of Durham in December 1660. His interest from some well-known art historians both here and in Durham began in the 1620s when he was made in America, which highlights the geographical a canon of the Cathedral and he played a big role in spread of the project. expanding the Cathedral Library as well as taking an active interest in the parish of Brancepath. He Canterbury Cathedral looks forward to welcoming married a local girl to reinforce his interest so in the Rt Rev Justin Welby to the Chair of St 1661 it is not surprising on his return to the diocese Augustine, and to his diocesan throne in the quire, ‘…at my first entrance through the river of Tease on 21 st March 2013. The Archives and Library look there was scarce any water to be seene for the forward to their role in the enthronement service, multitude of horse and men that filled it’. when they will host the Canterbury Gospels, from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College He worked with great energy to restore the Cambridge, on which the new Archbishop will administration and the estates belonging to the swear his oath. diocese. He assisted the Dean and Chapter in rebuilding the Cathedral and refurbished the Canterbury is considered one of the five Bishop’s palaces at Durham Castle and Auckland Magna Carta ‘charter towns’, together with Bury Castle. On Palace Green in Durham he rebuilt

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2 schools and almshouses and, of course, his library. Our retrospective catalogue conversion project is The library has suffered from severe damp problems proceeding well. Details of all the books in the for a number of years but finally in June 2012 we historic Chained Library are now on our online reopened it after complete refurbishment of the catalogue and our cataloguer, Tessa Smart, is roof, outer walls, doors, and all the woodwork. currently working her way through the library of Conservation heating and LED lighting have been the College of Vicars Choral. Tessa is also the installed and with its books returned it is now a curator of our Spring 2013 exhibition, ‘What’s in a beautiful building. So that was Durham University’s title? The origins and development of the title page, take on the BCP anniversary. from manuscripts to modern books’.

Sheila Hingley, Durham University Library, Rosalind Caird, Hereford Cathedral Archives manager of Durham Cathedral’s Archives Rosemary Firman, Hereford Cathedral Library

Hereford Cathedral Hurd Library Our links with the AHRC-funded ‘Seals in Medieval Readers may be interested in updates posted on the Wales 1200-1550’ project continue to be very blog for the Hurd Library at Hartlebury Castle, fruitful. Inspired by their finds in the archives and available at http://thehurdlibrary.tumblr.com/ the richness of what has survived, we have currently on display an exhibition of a selection of Chris Penney, Hurd Library our medieval seals, called ‘Making an Impression’. This has been supported by some interpretive boards provided as part of the education outreach Lambeth Palace Library of the project which form a discrete part of the The Church Commissioners continue to support the exhibition. Dr Elizabeth New was also generous new Lambeth Palace Library project. Work is with her time in advising on some aspects of the currently focussed primarily on the preparation of a seals selected. We made considerable use of business case and on the appointment of architects. photography to enhance the seals displayed as well In addition, work continues on ensuring that the as to show additional examples. There are ideas for governance arrangements are clear and robust, further collaborative projects with Dr New involving given that they have grown up over many hundreds the study of our seals which are currently being of years! As a part of this element of the project the developed. Commissioners agreed with the Charity Commission an amendment to their powers so that The AHRC-funded joint project ‘Missioners on the they now do have the power to spend money on a Margins’, led by Professor Maurice Whitehead of new library building, which they were not the University of Swansea with PhD student previously entitled to do. The aim is to complete the Hannah Thomas, is exploring the implications of the business case in the early New Year. 17 th -century library of the Jesuit territorial college of St Francis Xavier, based at the Cwm near Declan Kelly, Lambeth Palace Library Monmouth, a significant part of which was removed to Hereford Cathedral in the aftermath of the Popish Plot of 1678. Hannah worked with us St Edmundsbury Cathedral intensively from October 2011 to June 2012, Our first exhibition in the crypt treasury this year examining both the books previously known to coincided with the University of East Anglia’s ‘Bury have come from the Cwm, and then many other St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest’ Conference suspects. As a result, the number of books with this held at the Cathedral in March. We displayed provenance has grown from 167 to possibly about volumes which showed the information on St 340. Hannah has a blog (http://cwmjesuitlibrary - Edmund which would have been available to library blogspot.com), which is linked to the Library and users in the 17 th and early 18 th centuries. These Archives pages of the Cathedral website. A joint included editions of William of Malmesbury, one-day conference on the theme of recusant Polydore Vergil, Holinshed, Foxe and Speed. culture in the 17 th century will be held here on 21 st June next year.

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3 The Book of Common Prayer exhibition, in the One of the most useful definitions of worship is the summer, enabled us to link volumes from idea that, when we worship, we take part in a Rushbrooke Hall, the seat of the Davers family, with conversation between God and His people which the late 17 th -century communion set from began long before we were born and which will Rushbrooke displayed in the Treasury. continue long after we are dead. Worship is so intensely personal, however, that it has often been The autumn exhibition, with a tenuous link to the the battleground over which Christians have fallen Jubilee, is ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Successor: the Tudor out with Christians: a long and broad view of the Dilemma’. The books displayed show Parliament’s perpetual stream of worship offered by the Church concern and others linked to potential suitors, Militant and the Church Triumphant reminds us of including the banned book dedicated to Essex our unworthiness and of God’s worthiness. which was cited in his trial for treason. But this definition must not provide an excuse for Our final exhibition will be of books belonging to liturgical nostalgia. It doesn’t mean that only 17 th - John Aylmer, Bishop of London 1577-1594. century English idiom is valid or better as an According to our earliest library list, these were expression of worship any more than a Latin mass donated by his son, Samuel, before 1599. We is more effective than the vernacular or a Greek would be very interested to hear from anyone who New Testament more likely to be quoting Jesus has books previously belonging to Bishop Aylmer in verbatim. their library. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is the latest Stephen Dart, edition of a book which dates back to 1549, so it is St Edmundsbury Cathedral Ancient Library true to say that, for most of the history of the Church of England thus far, the language of the Book of Common Prayer was the only language of St Paul’s Cathedral this Church’s worship – at least as far as its We readily acknowledge the need to commemorate authorised texts are concerned. and we enjoy an opportunity to celebrate with the result that we are often at our most reflective and Emerging from that book’s monopoly into the imaginative when special anniversaries occur. The liturgical revision of the 1960s and 1970s was Queen’s Diamond Jubilee was the most obvious difficult for many people, but it was a necessary example of that this year and brought with it an process which reached its climax in the year 2000 appraisal of our national consciousness, as well as, with ‘Common Worship’, the Church of England’s more earthily, an excuse to party. contemporary form of liturgy published in no fewer than 10 volumes. The 1662 Book of Common Three other anniversaries have occurred, in the Prayer, however, remains the prime liturgy of the space of the last 12 months or so, which have had Church of England with Common Worship very particular significance for the Church of England. decidedly an alternative to it. It is interesting to note They relate to three sets of texts which, until that, if parish priests fall out with their recently, formed almost the entire library of our congregations over proposed changes to the worship and praise of Almighty God. Last year, we worship of the parish church, they must revert to celebrated the 400 th anniversary of the Authorised sole use of the 1662 Prayer Book until the dispute or King James Version of the Bible; in October of is resolved. the same year, we celebrated the 150 th anniversary of the hymn book, ‘Hymns Ancient and Modern’; In an exhibition of personal copies of the 1662 and this year, we celebrated the 350 th anniversary of book at St Paul’s Cathedral throughout May of this the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. year (‘Understanded of the People: The People’s Prayer Book, 1662-2012’), people from all over the The close proximity of these three anniversaries is a country contributed their own prayer books to the coincidence, but a useful one because it allows us to exhibition and the stories that made the books consider the importance of language in worship, special to them. This included a soldier whose the shared experience of worship, and the object girlfriend (now his wife) made a cover for his prayer and purpose of worship. book out of an old skirt before he went off to serve

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4 in the Second World War; a lady whose sister had Winchester Cathedral Archives died in a car crash and whose prayer book she The Winchester Cathedral Archives, which are inherited; another lady whose brother had given currently managed under a partnership her his prayer book before going off to the Front in arrangement between the Dean and Chapter and 1939 – she never saw him again. It also included Hampshire County Council, celebrated two words from Terry Waite who had lost his prayer particular milestones in November 2012. The first is book but talked about the words of the book bring the launch by the Dean of Winchester Cathedral of written on his heart; and P D James whose devotion the online archive catalogue: entries for the first to the language of the Prayer Book had inspired her 2,000 records in the catalogue are now available on to write in turn. And many more. the internet via the Hampshire Record Office website, What was striking was that many of the stories http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/catalog.htm spoke movingly of lost love and the bonds of friendship – the yearning for some half- The first entries will include the charters, Chapter remembered homecoming (which is what the word books, cartulary, manorial court rolls and account ‘nostalgia’ means) but a homecoming which must rolls, registers of common seal and other smaller now await death. By these very human series. Once the online catalogue has been associations, the book of a conversation between launched, entries will be added on a regular basis as God and his people, by which we mean both the the remaining 11,000+ records are catalogued and quick and the dead, becomes the symbol of a referenced. multiplicity of other loving conversations between the people of this life and of the life of the world to Winchester Cathedral suffered badly during the come. It is therefore no coincidence, it seems to me, 17 th -century civil wars. The fabric of the building that the pages of Common Prayer provide a was desecrated, the great west window was memory bank for the sharing of common smashed and the muniment room in the Chapter experience. House was ransacked. The Chapter Clerk, John Chase, recorded the devastation in the following The strong melody of the Book of Common Prayer, words: ‘divers of the writinges and Charters [were] the foundation stone of Anglican liturgy, has burnt, divers throwen into the River, divers larg permitted a great polyphony of revision to build parchmentes they made Kytes withall to flie in the upon its legacy. That revision has resulted in a rich Ayre, and many other old bookes [were] lost, to the library of liturgical resources which means that utter spoyling and destruccion of the same priests no longer need to cross their fingers when minument and Chapter howse’. swearing that they will use only those forms of service which are authorised or allowed by Canon. So it is with particular pleasure that this year we are But nor should we remove from our rich resource able to celebrate the conservation of some of the that anchor which is the Book of Common Prayer. documents which suffered so much at the hands of the soldiers. Thanks to a grant from the National When the Prayer Book addresses God as ‘thou’, it’s Manuscripts Conservation Trust, supported by a doing nothing more grandiloquent than if an old further donation from the Hampshire Archives Yorkshire farmer were to lean on his gate and call Trust, 60 medieval rolls have been conserved, his neighbour and old familiar friend ‘thou’. If a making them accessible to researchers for the first stranger walks past and wants his attention, it is time in 350 years. ‘ye’. The conversation between God and His people in the Book of Common Prayer is a conversation We are also delighted to report that the Guild of between friends who love each other. That should Voluntary Guides at Winchester Cathedral, inspired be the hallmark of our liturgy, whether it is by seeing the conservation work which remains to Common Prayer or Common Worship. be done, on several visits to the Record Office last autumn, have spent this year fundraising in aid of The Rev Canon Michael Hampel, Precentor, the project. At the November celebratory event, St Paul’s Cathedral representatives from the guides presented a cheque

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5 to the Record Office, to enable the conservation of everyone. Not only did she gain a distinction in her a further tranche of rolls in the months ahead. The dissertation but also she has recently started a full- civil war destruction was so comprehensive that the time job at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, and we conservation project will take many years to wish her well for the future. complete and additional fundraising opportunities will be sought. But we are looking forward to In the Cathedral Archive the free-lance conservators celebrating the first stage of this project this year. have been continuing to repair the medieval registers and some of the early post-medieval Gill Rushton, Winchester Cathedral Archivist registers up to the end of the 17 th century. These registers included Prior William More’s Journal. He was the head of the Benedictine monastery at Worcester Cathedral Worcester from 1518 to 1536. Once the registers The Cathedral Library and Archive have been busy have been cleaned and boxed we hope to move these last few months with several work experience them to the Cathedral Library’s conservation students and pupils doing a variety of projects for storeroom. the Cathedral. These have ranged from cleaning through to research for displays and articles. In The archive/library blog, which was started by September and October Tamsin Rowe completed Tamsin Rowe some 15 months ago, is going well. her 15-month traineeship. This was a Heritage With over 4,000 hits it is proving a useful means to Lottery Funded post via the Skills for the Future spread interest in the Cathedral Library. It can be scheme. Her final display was about two particular accessed on the front page of the cathedral aspects of the 18th-century Cathedral: the three- website. The blog has also proved a great way of day audit feasts and also the charity work getting to know the collection, and is good practice supported by the Dean and Chapter. Tamsin has at writing about something in 500 words or less! been a great asset to the Cathedral Library, and her friendliness and dedication will be missed by David Morrison, Worcester Cathedral

OTHER NEWS

ABTAPL Bulletin The CFCE has issued a short questionnaire, asking Now available freely online is the entire backfile of about the current position with cathedral the Association of British Theological and inventories, who is responsible for working on and Philosophical Libraries (ABTAPL) Bulletin for 1974- managing them, and what aids or obstacles to 2009. This is available at completion have been encountered. http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_abtapl_0 1.php and may well include articles of interest to Suveys can be obtained from Anne Locke at CLAA members. Cathedrals and Church Buildings Division (e-mail: [email protected]) and need to be Editor, from mailing to returned to her by 25 th January 2013. Religious Archives Group emailing list Editor

CFCE Inventory Directions The Cathedrals Fabric Commission (CFCE) intends Religious Archives Group to revise and update its Directions for the form of Regular readers of this newsletter will recall the the Inventory of a Cathedral Church and its piece by Claire Childs on the launch of the Religious accompanying Advisory Guidelines . To assist in Archives Survey in summer 2010. This was a this, it needs up-to-date information on the current nationwide survey of religious archives, with over position with cathedral inventories. The last 3,000 questionnaires sent to faith organisations, completion survey was carried out in 2004. secularist groups and individuals throughout the

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6 UK. It was a partnership between The National survey with a return rate of nearly 30% from 690 Archives, the Archives and Records Association and questionnaires. It included many senior Anglican the Religious Archives Group, supported by the churchmen and women. Indeed bishops, deans and Pilgrim Trust. In the winter 2010 CLAA newsletter canons of the Church of England were by some Norman James reported on the completion of the distance the largest identifiable group. Many survey and publication of the report. replied, reassuringly, that the records of their professional life had gone to an appropriate The survey has deepened our knowledge of repository, but some did indicate they had personal available resources for the religious history of the records, not directly related to the offices they held, UK within the context of a multi-faith society. It is on which advice was sought. Another concern that intended further to encourage faith groups to became apparent was the fate of digital records. In understand their historical records not just as an the coming months, it is hoped to be able to offer important cultural and heritage asset but a guidance on both these areas through the Religious significant resource which they can use to inform Archives Group website. their faith and support their mission. Following the launch of the report, a Religious Archives Support Rachel Cosgrave, Lambeth Palace Library, Plan was drawn up. This five-year plan draws on Chair of RAG the findings and recommendations of the survey to seek to raise the profile and understanding of religious archives, within faiths, and among archives The British Newspaper Archive and Cathedrals professionals and researchers. The British Library and brightsolid announced their partnership in 2010. The aim is to digitise some 40 An important element of that plan was the million pages of newspapers within a 10-year appointment of a project officer to implement its period. The British Newspaper Archive (BNA) was first stages. That appointment has now been made launched a year ago, in November 2011. Since and Dr Tim Powell holds the post of Senior Adviser: then, just under six million pages of newspapers Religious Archives based at The National Archives. have been scanned. These are all searchable, free of charge. If you want to register and take a Tim will help to enhance the Religious Archives subscription to read the articles and pages, then this Group website (http: // religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk), is easy to do. See www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk which is intended to be an authoritative source for for further information. information on archives of religious bodies and a source of guidance for creators and holders of There are a multitude of articles about cathedrals. records; to highlight online guidance already The building and consecration of Truro Cathedral, a available and prepare additional guidance where great endeavour, was followed in the local that is required; to oversee a survey of existing newspapers. Searching by ‘Truro Cathedral audio-visual resources for the study of religious consecration’ and then filtering the results by date, faiths; and to initiate training opportunities targeted to November 1887 (the date of its consecration was at those with responsibility for religious archives 3rd November), and then one can see that there are who may not have the professional knowledge of 65 articles about this published between 8 th and 14 th best practice. November. (To view the articles see http://bit.ly/10EPRrT.) The first paragraph of an A further action is to follow up some of the returns article from the Worcester Journa l, Saturday 5 th from the personal papers component of the 2010 November 1887 (p6 col.1) gives detail of the event. survey. This was a particularly successful part of the

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The rescue of Winchester Cathedral by the efforts about the service of thanksgiving to mark the of William Walker has always excited attention. Cathedral’s restoration. Searching under ‘Winchester Cathedral William Walker’ gives 1,297 results using a date filter for And what about cathedral libraries? A search for 1910-1919. The top one 100 or so are likely to be ‘Salisbury Cathedral Library’ gives large numbers of the most relevant ones. (To view the articles see results. An article in the Hampshire Advertiser of http://bit.ly/UWnIHR.) The Staffordshire Sentinel Wednesday 1 st February 1871 (p4 col. 3) is typical: of Tuesday 16 th July 1912, (p6) printed an article

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9 To show some of the vagaries that online searching Library, in the Exeter Flying Post of Wednesday 26 th can give: a search under ‘Chester Cathedral Library’ March 1879 (p5 col.6). retrieved a detailed account of Exeter Cathedral

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10 A search for ‘Lincoln Cathedral Library’ offers a and the Stamford Mercury (both printed on 20 th couple of advertisements, placed by GD January 1860). (To view the articles see Whitehead, the Librarian, about the publication of http://bit.ly/Qz16Bn.) its catalogue in 1860, in the Lincolnshire Chronicle

If these examples show anything, it is the large details and information which is not readily quantities of information about cathedrals, their available elsewhere, if at all. work, their fabric, and their libraries and archives. Doubtless, readers of this article will be able search Ed King, formerly British Newspaper Archive the BNA to find their own examples, often giving

OBITUARIES

John Hardacre (1950-2012) the eulogy at his funeral service in the Cathedral It is with great sadness that we report the death of Quire in August 2012: ‘The world is not so greatly John Alan Hardacre who was curator at Winchester blessed with loving, gentle, generous, erudite, Cathedral for almost 30 years, until his retirement in scholarly, witty, sensitive, modest, musical men of 2007. John had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the integrity, that we can afford to lose one so untimely. Cathedral’s collections (as well as of its fabric) and a John’s death on August 5 th came as a shock to us particular devotion to the glorious 12 th -century all’. He is greatly missed not only by his family and Winchester Bible about which he lectured personal friends but by his many former colleagues extensively right up to the last year of his life. It and work associates at the cathedral. would be hard to better the sentiments expressed in Gill Rushton, Winchester Cathedral Archivist

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11 THE CATHEDRAL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES ASSOCIATION

The aims of the Cathedral Libraries and Archives For our webpages, see Association are: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/librariesand To advance education by the promotion, archives/cathanddioceslibs/claabasicdetails.html preservation and protection of cathedral libraries and archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland Enquiries about membership should be directed to The provision of appropriate access thereto the Honorary Secretary or Treasurer.

COMMITTEE CONTACTS

Chairman: Committee Members: The Very Rev Peter Atkinson, Dean of Worcester Dr Claire Breay, British Library. Email [email protected] Vice-Chairman Canon Ann Barwood, Lay Canon and Ms Vicky Harrison, York Minster. Canon Librarian of Exeter Cathedral Email [email protected]

Treasurer: Dr Sheila Hingley, Durham University Library. Mr Jo Wisdom, St Paul’s Cathedral Library. Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Mr Ed King, formerly British Library. Honorary Secretary Email [email protected] Mrs Gudrun Warren, Norwich Cathedral Library. Email [email protected] Dr Clare Rider, St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle. Email [email protected] Assistant Secretary Mrs Katie Flanagan, Brunel University. Mrs Cressida Williams, Canterbury Cathedral Archives. Email [email protected] Email [email protected]

We aim to produce two issues of this letter each year, in summer and winter. Any contributions should be sent to the Editor, Mrs Cressida Williams, either by email to cressida.williams@canterbury- cathedral.org or by post to her at Canterbury Cathedral Archives, The Precincts, Canterbury CT1 2EH, to reach her by 31 st October for the winter issue, or 30 th April for the summer issue. She would also welcome comments or suggestions for content.

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