Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521

Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521

Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.

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High Treason and A Wicked Contrivance?

High Treason and A Wicked Contrivance?

Library volunteer Myra Amor explores the stories of three successive bishops of Rochester each accused of treason.

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John Speed's atlas, 1676

John Speed's atlas, 1676

Library volunteer Myra Amor introduces John Speed and his Theatre of the empire of Great-Britain and A prospect of the most famous parts of the World published in 1676.

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Acts of Parliament 1649 and 1650: a paradise lost?

Acts of Parliament 1649 and 1650: a paradise lost?

Randolph Jones writes about a revolutionary time when the future and soul of the country hung in the balance.

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The Great Bible: the gospel according to Henry VIII

The Great Bible: the gospel according to Henry VIII

Stuart Palmer, University of Kent, shares with us a mighty message.

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Life of a bookworm

Life of a bookworm

Suzy Micklewright hunts down the well-known but seldom-seen bookworms.

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Conservation of the Vinegar Bible

Conservation of the Vinegar Bible

A rare misprinted bible printed by John Baskett of Oxford in 1717, also known as the Vinegar Bible, was conserved by Lara Meredith in 2015 in advance of its exhibition in the Cathedral Crypt.

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