History Twilight Session: Wednesday 8th October
History teachers – would you like a unique opportunity to handle and work with original documents, images and artefacts at an Oxford college? A chance to use collections to help to create accessible, imaginative and stimulating resources to use with your Key Stage 3 and 4 pupils? If so, The Angus Library and Archive, Regent’s Park… Read more »
Measured Excitement: The Arrival of Artefacts from Grenfell’s Congo Voyage
There are an abundance of treasures and curiosities housed in The Angus, but something we’ve always been lacking is a nineteenth-century sphygmomanometer! The arrival of a large wooden box purporting to contain artefacts relating to the work of the cartographer and Baptist Missionary, George Grenfell (1849 – 1906), has managed to surpass all of our… Read more »
Reflections on Stethoscopes and Petticoats
We were pleased to welcome over 200 visitors to our exhibition: Stethoscopes and Petticoats: The Changing Roles of Non-Conformist Women, with 50 people attending the free talks on The Life and Hymns of Anne Steele and The Life of Dr Ellen Farrer. The exhibition examined the role of women within the history of the British… Read more »
Archive Taster Sessions: The Story So Far…
Underneath Pusey St, Oxford, a number of exciting stories lurk in the rolling stacks of The Angus Library and Archive. Through developing Archive Taster Sessions, we aim to set loose some of these stories by offering inquisitive students challenging and intriguing activities framed around historical individuals. The focus is on giving students the opportunity to… Read more »
An Introduction to Dr Ellen Farrer (1865 – 1959) by Blanca Verdia
The Angus Library and Archive holds Dr Ellen Farrer’s diaries, letters, degree certificates and photographs, some of which will be shown in our next exhibition: Stethoscopes and Petticoats: The Changing Roles of Non-Conformist Women Hilary Ingram will be giving a talk on The Life of Dr Ellen Farrer on Wednesday 19th March at 5.30pm, Regent’s… Read more »
Doctor Doctor: The Works of Galen (Basle 1542)
This copy of Galen has had a hard life, but a useful one. The 2nd century Greek physician is now often mentioned only with respect to his errors (which are glaring, including continuing the theory of humour imbalance and believing that being female was a sort of birth defect), but when his work was reintroduced… Read more »
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