Pusey House Library and Archive Newsletter no.1 Trinity Term 2016

Pusey House worked with the Oxford University Ca-

reers Service Internship Office to offer a micro-internship

in week 9 of Michaelmas term. As a result, we now have

a catalogue of artefacts online. You can read more about

the micro-project overleaf. Or go straight to http://

puseyarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/objects-list.html.

Have you ever considered joining the Friends of Pusey

House? For just £36 per annum (£24 Students & Recent

Graduates) you: can support the work of the House

(including the Library and Archive) and receive a quar-

terly House Update and an invitation to the Annual

Friends Festival Mass & Lunch held in June each year.

The Library will close for Easter at 5.30, Thursday 29th

March, and reopen Monday 9th April.

Pusey House ran a very successful conference on the Trin-

ity in the summer of 2016. The quality of speakers was

exceptionally high, and tickets were sold out. If you were

one of those who didn’t manage to experience the event in

person, most of the papers presented at the conference

have now been published in a book Transforming Vision:

Knowing and Loving the Triune God (SCM Press, 2018).

Theology is a journey into the heart and mind of the triune

God....In essays eloquent, elegant, playful, subtle and clear, we

are shown that our prayer should be thoughtful and our thought

prayerful. And the fruit of all our praying and thinking is a

participation in a divine pattern of living in this world, albeit in

all our messy glory. -- From a review by Matt Bullimore,

Vice Principal, Westcott House.

Available to browse in the Library, or to buy from all

good bookshops.

PS: Still time to buy tickets for this summer’s conference

Totus Christus: Knowing and Loving the Son of Man.

http://www.puseyhouse.org.uk/2018conference.html

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PUSEY HOUSE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE

As part of Oxford University Careers Service's Micro-internship Pro-

gramme I spent a fascinating week in December working to improve our

understanding of Pusey House's historic collection.

The bulk of my work involved cataloguing the myriad of artefacts the

House possesses relating to Dr. Pusey and the Oxford Movement - a job I

soon found required patience and analytical rigour. Identifying items

(which ranged from Georgian coins and stone fragments to nineteenth-

century texts and locks of hair) involved sifting through archive material

for the briefest mention of the objects I was examining, before conducting

further research to ascertain their exact provenance. The details of these

artefacts could then be entered into a spreadsheet (now an online cata-

logue), and the objects themselves were carefully wrapped and stored

away. The knowledge that I was playing an active part in preserving these

objects and making them accessible to future researchers made this a ful-

filling task, and I hope that students and the public will now be able to in-

vestigate the items at Pusey House in even greater depth.

During the week I was also afforded the opportunity to experience other

aspects of the heritage sector. Anna Sander (Archivist and Curator at Balli-

ol College) showed me how priceless mediaeval manuscripts are protected

and used, whilst Benjamin Arnold revealed the extensive nuances of cata-

loguing books. There was even time to squeeze in a chat with book repair-

ers from the Arts Society and discuss the voluntary preservation work they

undertake at Pusey House. Each interaction was a valuable insight into ar-

chives and collections, and made this a highly worthwhile internship. I

therefore enjoyed my time at Pusey House Library and Archives immense-

ly, and would like to pass on my gratitude to everyone who made my ex-

perience a welcoming one - I just hope I didn't store everything in too

many boxes!

Paul Ritchie

Cataloguing Artefacts at Pusey House

The XXIV Articles

Available in the Reading Room

New Journals

Object 19—Shakespeare Medal