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Treasures of Worcester College Blog

30th April 2019

‘Cyphers’ and the death of Oliver Cromwell: Sir William Clarke’s papers

17th century Books Death & mortality English Civil War Manuscripts Pamphlets William Clarke

29th March 2019

What books would you take to a desert island?

20th century Books College Archives Literary history Manuscripts Printing history

28th February 2019

Bold, Soft, Swift and Sure: drawings by Inigo Jones in the collections of Worcester College Library

17th century Architectural history Drawings Inigo Jones

18th February 2019

List of James Campbell’s antiquarian books at Worcester

Books Medieval

31st January 2019

James Campbell’s antiquarian copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical history

18th century Antiquarians Books Medieval Printing history

20th December 2018

Christmas Trees in the Library: The cultivation of Christmas trees by T. S. Eliot

20th century Books Christmas Literary history

02nd November 2018

Dances of Death: The Office of the Dead with a set of woodcut ‘cards’

15th century 18th century Books Death & mortality Incunabula Prints

12th October 2018

Welcome to Worcester: Matriculation records from the College Archives

18th century 19th century 20th century College Archives Matriculation Students

28th September 2018

‘So you have the plants of most parts of the world, contained in this garden…’

17th century 19th century Books History of science Pamphlets

31st August 2018

August Atlas: a tour of early eighteenth-century Oxford

18th century Architectural history Atlases & travel Books George Clarke

31st July 2018

An Incunable from Worcester College Library

15th century Books Incunabula Printing history

29th June 2018

Orange, Lemon, or Citron? Giovanni Battista Ferrari’s Hesperides

17th century Books George Clarke History of science

31st May 2018

Hebrew Manuscripts at Worcester College, Oxford

Binding history Manuscripts Medieval

20th April 2018

The Many Lives of Worcester College Hall

18th century 19th century 20th century Architectural history College Archives

29th March 2018

Worcester MS 1: The Life of the Black Prince

Literary history Manuscripts Medieval

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