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Pusey House Library and Archive Newsletter no.1 Trinity Term 2016
As usual, the Library and Archive will be open
throughout the summer vacation to ensure collec-
tions are accessible for those paying research visits
to the UK during the long vac. Please note that
there will be one week in August (exact date tbc)
when the Library will be open, but archive collec-
tions may not be available. Please drop us an email
before planning your archive visit to avoid disap-
pointment!
Pusey House holds the historic records of the Society of St
Margaret, a community of Anglican nuns founded in Sussex
in 1855 by JM Neale. In the 1970s the Order decided to con-
centrate on their work in other regions, and their mother-
house in East Grinstead was converted to housing. In March
this year, several of the current residents made a road-trip to
Pusey House to see the Victorian plans and records of the Old
Convent, and invited members of Pusey House for a return
visit to the Convent and Neale’s home at Sackville College,
which inspired literary works as diverse as Good King Wences-
las and Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles. It was a wonderful
chance to see buildings familiar from the archive, and we are
very grateful to the residents for their kind hospitality.
PS Sackville College is open to visitors in the summer months,
and well worth a visit.
PUSEY HOUSE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE NEWSLETTER
NO. 7 TRINITY TERM 2018
Scriptorium
Society of St Margaret
Sumer is Icumen in
A new and exciting initiative, The Oxford Scriptorium is taking place in Pusey House Library every Thurs-
day during term time. Modelled on the success of the Scriptorium study group in Cambridge, it is a space
for graduate students and others to work on individual study in the company of others, and to hold each
other accountable for work completed during each session.
The Scriptorium day begins with a 10 minute prayer and reflection in the Library at 9:15 and ends in time
for Evening Prayer in the Chapel at 5:30. The work day is divided into periods of study, punctuated by
tea & coffee breaks in the Hood Room, with lunch provided in a local hostelry. Anyone is welcome to
drop in, or stay all day, and make the most of this opportunity to get things done with good company.
Come and join the group on term-time Thursdays or contact [email protected] for further de-
tails.
Chapel, Old Convent, East Grinstead
A meeting of the Scriptorium
Allchin, D
The Joy of all creation: an Anglican
meditation on the place of Mary
DLT, 1984
Brown, Nockles, Pereiro (eds)
The Oxford handbook of the Oxford
Movement
OUP, 2017
Catto, J
Oriel College: a history
OUP, 2013
Dohler, M (ed.)
Acta Petri
De Gruyter, 2017
Donne, J
Sermons v. XII
OUP, 2017
Hillebert, J (ed)
Companion to de Lubac
Bloomsbury, 2017
Janes, D
Visions of queer martyrdom from JH
Newman to Derek Jarman
Chicago, 2015
Mong, A
Purification of memory: a study of Or-
thodox theologians from a Catholic per-
spective
Clarke, 2015
Lapidge, S
Chanting & chasubles
2014
Pinchin, A et al.
Trembling on the edge of eternity: Fr.
Augustine Hoey
St Michael's Abbey, 2015
Whyte, W
Unlocking the Church: the lost secrets of
Victorian sacred space
OUP, 2017
Pusey House | St Giles | Oxford | 01865 288024 | [email protected] | puseyhouse.org.uk | @PuseyHouseLib
PUSEY HOUSE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE
To use a book, a reader must be able to find it. And these days, that means a
library needs to provide an online catalogue.
The Library has been adding all new printed acquisitions and some heavily
used materials onto the Bodleian’s Solo Catalogue since 2015, and have so
far managed to get 6% of collections electronically catalogued. This is a solid
accomplishment, but at this speed it will take another 37½ years to have a
complete electronic catalogue, which is literally the same amount of time as
the Librarian has been alive so far.
To haste things along, by the end of the year the Library hopes to employ
two fixed-term members of staff on a two-year cataloguing project to create
Solo records or all 35,000 post-1800 monographs in the House. The project
will cost up to £150,000 including salaries and overheads. The first year’s
direct funding is now lined up, and the project is ready to start thanks to
generous grants from the Foyle Foundation, the Pilgrim Trust, the Chiches-
ter Theological College Trust & the William Delafield Foundation.
To complete the project, we will need to raise at least another £50,000, most
of which we anticipate will come from further grants. However, we would
hate to deprive Library supporters of the opportunity to donate to the pro-
ject, and will be aiming to raise £2,000 plus fees through Crowdfunder.
For the uninitiated, Crowdfunder allows a large number of individuals to
pledge small donations online, which together add up to a large sum of
money to support a charitable project (in this case, cataloguing at Pusey
House). You can donate from as little as £5, which will cover the cost of cat-
aloguing one book, and up to £250, which will buy half a computer.
You can get a sneak preview of the donations page at https://
bit.ly/2xG8YMS, and we’ll send you a live link on the launch day later in
the summer. Get your wallets ready!
Selection from Trinity
New Books
Residents of the Old Convent enjoying archives discovered online
Catalogues for the Times Speeding along the Information Super-Highway
