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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You are warmly invited to our exhibition: Game Changer: William Tyndale & Translations of the Bible 1526-1820 on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th September 2026. For more information, to register & book your visit, please visit www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/event/gamech...

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Our second #adventcalendar book from Carey Kingsgate Press - 'The Secret of the South Turret' by Kathleen M. Bell. What could the secret have been?

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This year’s Angus Advent Calendar is a series of jolly early C20th books from the Carey Kingsgate Press. Named for missionary William Carey, the press published a great many ‘improving’ novels for young people that would have made perfect Christmas gifts. (Palm-Nut Valley by Kathleen Bell, 1919)

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It's not too late to sign up for our next Friends of the Angus online talk on Thursday 13th November @ 7.30 pm when Dr Lee Spitzer will be speaking about the history of the Baptist World Alliance. Please join us!

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Our second Autumn Friends of the Angus seminar takes place on the 19th of November @ 7.30 online. Daniel Pratt Morris Chapman, Senior Tutor at Wesley House Cambridge will be giving his talk ' Colonising the Soul: The Baptist Mission and the Roots of Anglophone Identity in Cameroon' Please join us!

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

You are warmly invited to our next FOTA seminar when Dr Lee Spitzer Research Fellow for the IBTS Amsterdam & Historian at the BWA will be giving his talk, 'Sharing Jesus with the World: 120 Years of Baptist World Alliance Reflection and Witness' Please join us online 7.30 on the 13th of November

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This volume of pamphlets by Henry Layton, author of works on the soul's immortality once belonged to the great philosopher John Locke & is now in the Angus. In a 1702 letter, Layton thanked Locke for the 'easie reception of my book' & Locke notes that the book is the authors gift, ex dono authoris.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We are delighted to announce that the Baptist Times and the Baptist Union Handbooks have now been digitised and are available online at Find My Past www.findmypast.co.uk and the British Newspapers Archive www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Happy searching!

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Angus Library will close temporarily from January - October 2026 to all visitors & enquirers. Temporary closure will enable us to carry out important tasks & reopen next year providing an even better service & protecting & promoting our amazing collections. theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/temporary-cl...

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It's not too late to register for the next Friends of the Angus online talk on April 2nd, when Paloma Miravet Llorens will be speaking on gender and agency in colonial societies (Fernando Po, 19th century), in 'We the principal inhabitants of this town'.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

You are warmly invited to join us on the 2nd of April, for the next online 'Opening the Angus' seminar when Paloma Miravet Llorens will be giving her talk on gender and agency in colonial societies (Fernando Po, 19th century), 'We the principal inhabitants of this town'.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-... An amazing story about a rare find - the beautiful Bible translated into Chinese by Baptist Missionary Joshua Marshman & the Armenian translator Johannes Lassar, who was fluent in Chinese. What an incredible discovery !

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Oxfam GB | Rare first Bible in Chinese donated to Oxfam sells for over £56,000 at auction

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy St Patrick's Day! From the libraries at Regent's here's a lovely 'Life of St Patrick' from 1905. We also have a c.1765 poetical works of Jonathon Swift - one of Ireland's best known authors and one time Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin where he is now buried. #StPatricksDay

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's not too late to sign up for our Opening the Angus online seminar, 6th of March @ 7.30 when Zach Williams will talk about Abraham Booth, Baptist minister, author, abolitionist & educationalist in "A 'Capital Part' of Salvation: Abraham Booth on the necessity of Holiness in the Christian Life".

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Introducing Radical Roots, a brilliant series of films & an accompanying course from the Baptist Historical Society & Church from Scratch. You'll be able to watch the stories of 5 people who can help us better understand the radical roots of Baptists ! www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/704...

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New films share the story of our radical roots

Andy Goodliff introduces Radical Roots - a series of films from the Baptist Historical Society telling the stories of five people to help better understand where Baptists came from

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Please join us at our Spring Opening the Angus online seminar, 6th of March @ 7.30 when Zach Williams will talk about Abraham Booth, Baptist minister, author, abolitionist & educationalist in "A 'Capital Part' of Salvation: Abraham Booth on the necessity of Holiness in the Christian Life".

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Here's a sweet Valentine letter from Charles Spurgeon to his mother written in 1872. He wishes his parents married bliss & sends a gift of ' favourite French plums for your own special self with lots of love & kisses". He may have been the 'Prince of Preachers' but he still loved his mum & dad 💗

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Happy Birthday to George Gordon, Lord #Byron. Here is his signature from 1818, carefully preserved in an autograph album compiled by Rev Dr Joseph Angus, founder of the Angus Library, who was clearly a great admirer of his work.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

#Santa 's reindeer must have been have been tired in 1928, as here he is in Dholpur, India riding a magnificent elephant. We wonder if it could fly? Huge thanks to @arascot.bsky.social for running a fantastic #ArchiveAdventCalendar campaign, we have so enjoyed seeing everyone's festive history!

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#ArchiveAdvent Day 23 and here is a glowing #star taken from the pages of a sweet little Edwardian book called 'True Comforts' which we have in the library.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

#ArchiveAdvent Day 22. For soldiers fighting in WW1, receiving an Xmas #Stocking may have been a far off dream, but the members of Baxter Gate Baptist Church in Loughborough were determined to ensure they received Xmas gifts. Here's a list of items church members could send in parcels to the troops.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A lovely little early C19th edition of Robert Burns’ poem 'The Cottager's Saturday Night - Containing a very pleasing and affecting description of the piety and happiness of a cottager and his family' A very cosy #family scene for the holidays, can you spot their pet dog? #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Just look at these beautiful handmade #Toys ! Using pith, the boys in this 1920s photo created incredible models of the steam boats then seen on the Congo river, as well as an amazing bicyle and plane. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#ArchiveAdvent #ChristmasSports Today, a photo of the Christmas Swimming race in Bopoto, Upper Congo-now the Democratic Republic of Congo, taken in 1896. A very energetic way to spend the day!

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Christmas 1897 in Bopoto, Congo - these missionaries' clothes and all the beautful greenery was certainly #MerryandBright - even if smiling for photographs wasn't in fashion yet! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

A group of 7 missionaries in 1897, 5 men and two women, one holding a baby. They are dressed mostly in smart white clothes, standing under a tree and surrounded by vegetation in Bopoto, Congo.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Broadmead Baptist Church is on Historic England's 2024 list of remarkable buildings to be given protection. Broadmead, Bristol's 1st dissenting church, dates from the 17thc. The current church was built by R.Sims, opened in 1969. We ❤ its brutalist beauty! www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

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Tintin and the terrific tomb: Essex heritage listing is thrill for Hergé fans

Rare stone chest linked to comic-book hero joins church above supermarket under Historic England’s protection

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#ArchiveAdvent 17th December, #ChristmasGifts. Our gift today is a Robin, taken from a beautiful Victorian scrapbook that we hold. "Pretty bird! How beautifully dost thou sit and sing" wrote Bishop Joseph Hall in his 'Meditation on a Robin Red-breast' singing at his window.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

'Kitty, take these three books to the library, get Mr Brown to change them - tell him I'm fond of the ROMANTIC' A charming C19th little pencil sketch of a library-loving lady and her little cat by a #WarmFire, found in a Victorian scrapbook. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

A pencil sketch of a Victorian lady in an armchair by a fire, with her feet on the fender. A pile of books is behind her on a table and a cat sits beside her on the floor. The caption reads 'Kitty, take these three books to the Library, get Mr Brown to change them - tell him I am fond of the Romatic' (From Seymour's Sketches)

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

#FestiveTraditions Here is a woodblock illustration of the Three Wise Men from William Hone's book 'Ancient Mysteries Described'(1823). This rough but charming woodcut would have been printed on Christmas carol 'sheets' which were very popular at the time. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A beautiful camel in 1920s India — looks like it was parked in the town square while the Three Wise Men went gift shopping! 🐪✨ #ArchiveAdventCalendar

A camel with a saddle and harness is tethered in a yard, in front of a white building with decorative arches.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

For a #ChristmasCracker here's 'Cracke me a Nut' a gloriously mad pamphlet from 1589 by 'one who dares call a dog, a dog'. Part of the Puritan vs Anglican Martin Marprelate pamphlet war, it is 'a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace'. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

The front page of an old, browned pamphlet from 1589. The text reads ' Pappe with an hatchet. : Alias, a figge for my God sonne. Or cracke me this nut. Or a countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning.

VVritten by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to preuent Martins dog daies
Imprinted by Iohn Anoke, and Iohn Astile, for the Bayliue of Withernam, cum priuilegio perennitatis, and are to bee sold at the signe of the crab tree cudgell in Thwack-Coate Lane'

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

These ladies are ready for Christmas party season in their gorgeous #FestiveClothes! Found in a Victorian scrapbook, the colour on these prints is still amazingly vivid. We're glad to live in a era of less elaborate hairstyles, though. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

A Victorian era print of a fashionably dressed lady. She wears a yellow silk dress with subtle details and white lace cuffs and collar with a red rose in the centre. She also has two large gold necklaces and dangling golden earrings, with red and white roses in her elaborate hairstyle.

A Victorian print of a fashionably dressed lady. Her blonde hair is in a thick plait at the top of her hair adorned with a large white rose. A golden cross on a black ribbon hangs round her neck with a larger golden necklace below, and dangling gold earrings hang from her ears. Her dress is a mid indigo colour with white stripes on the sleeves and elaborate white collar and cuffs.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A beautiful #WinterWonderland from 1926, at the Women's Institute at Taiyuan, Shansi in China, with a very kind gentleman clearing a path through the snow. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A slightly different #ChristmasCard sent by missionaries Allan and Lily Palmer in the 1910s. Instead of snowy scenes and robins they created a collage of photos from their life in Yalemba, Congo. Not unlike the family newsletters we get in cards today! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A little #ChristmasSparkle from this incredible hand painted card found in a Victorian scrapbook. The note reads ‘From ‘Auguste’ – now the Rev. Mother Prioress of the Carmelite Convent’ – nice to know that even prioresses sent Christmas cards! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Some wonderful photos from a #Nativity play put on in 1936 at Kibokolo, Angola. The scenes show the (very dramatic) appearance of the angel to the shepherds, and the adoration of the magi! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Some #ChristmasCharity in 1913 for today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar. From the Annual Report of Baptist Deaconesses, this photo of Father Christmas visiting children at Berger Hall, East London is a snapshot of the support the deaconesses offered to poverty stricken, vulnerable and ill in society.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

'William Black the #Chimney Sweeper' is an early 1800s pious chapbook. Raised in a workhouse, 'friendless, uninstructed and depraved', he falls off a roof, breaks his arm, becomes a Christian and lives a clean and godly life in a cellar with his wife and 3 children. Cheerful! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Have you got your Christmas #Tree up yet? Here is ours at Regent's Park College with toys ready for the Salvation Army present appeal (www.salvationarmy.org.uk/christmas-pr... ), and one from Yakusu, Congo all the way back in the 1920s! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A beautiful harvest of fruit and vegetables in the Congo, all the way back in 1897! Produce like this would have been a part of this later photo of a #FestiveFeast in Kibokolo 1936, showing the Christmas feast of the local day school children. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

A variety of fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden steps, including a large bunch of bananas, squash and pineapples.

A large group of children with plates sit on mats outside for a Christmas feast. Adult

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Day 3’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar is an ‘Eastern sheep drawing his fatt tayle in a cart’ from 1705. The fat tailed #sheep is a real breed and appears twice in the Bible (Exo. 29:22 + Lev 3:9) so may well have been the kind watched by the Bethlehem shepherds! Though they probably didn’t have tail carts.

A black and white print from 1705 of a sheep with curled horns and a long fat tail, that it is pulling behind it in a small two wheeled cart. Text on the image reads 'An Eastern Sheet drawing his fatt tayle in a Cart weighing 40 pound weight or more'.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Day 2 of the #ArchiveAdventCalendar takes us to Bhiwani, India in 1928, which was then home to a large Baptist Missionary hospital specialising in treatment for women and eye conditions. Their chapel had some beautiful Christmas #Decorations, look at that tinsel!

The interior of a chapel in Bhiwani, India. White walls with arches are decorated with hand written signs and long swags of tinsel. An altar is decorated with two vases of leaves and flowers.

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Angus Library and Archive @anguslibrary.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Welcome to our #ArchiveAdventCalendar ! In the 1820s Jens and Karina Holm, their child and reindeer were very far from their home in Lapland. Working as a living exhibit in London they displayed their traditional Sami dress and ways of life in front of a painted panorama of the North Cape, Norway.

A print from 1820 of a Laplander family, a small child and two parents, in traditional dress. There is a tent made from furs in the background. The father sits in a wooden sled pulled by a reindeer in a decorated harness. A second reindeer stands behind. Behind the scene is a backdrop of snowy mountains with a few fir trees.

The front page of pamphlet from 1820 titled 'An account of the family of Laplanders : which, with their summer and winter residences, domestic implements, sledges, herd of living reindeer; and a panoramic view of the North Cape, (from a drawing lately made on the spot by Capt. Brooke, to whom the proprietor is indebted for permission to exhibit it,) are now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.'

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