Library Exhibition 17 April – 20 September 2026 Curated by Petra Hofmann (Special Collections Librarian) Contents Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1483) Jane Austen, Letters (1814) Manuscript Addition to Book of Common Prayer (1625) William Laud, History of my Troubles (1641-1645) Johannes Kepler, Astronomia nova (1609) Second Folio of William Shakespeare’s Plays (1632) Brittany GospelsContinue reading “Treasures of St John’s College Library”
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Life Stories from St John’s: the famous & the forgotten
Library exhibition 9 September – 9 December 2022 Introduction For over 450 years the lifeblood of St John’s College has been the people who live and work inside its walls. Some have dedicated a good part of their lives to this College, while others have just passed through. Many have become famous and even moreContinue reading “Life Stories from St John’s: the famous & the forgotten”
“excuse the scrawl”: literary letters from St. John’s special collections
Alongside collections of manuscripts and early printed books, St. John’s College’s Special Collections include personal papers of a number of well-known literary figures: Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, Jane Austen, Philip Larkin, Spike Milligan and Professor J.B. Leishman. Included in these papers is a great deal of correspondence, occasionally between other literary figures, or concerning literaryContinue reading ““excuse the scrawl”: literary letters from St. John’s special collections”