It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here! All credit to Westminster College’s Twitter/X feed for the lovely photo of the College Christmas tree. Apologies if you are now humming away after reading our opening lines, but we are feeling the Christmas spirit at the Congregational Library. We’ve started an Advent Calendar of interesting […]
There’s quite a lot to report this month, and it’s all good news. We will soon be getting the Tower at Westminster College properly investigated and environmental monitors will be installed over the next few weeks. The Tower will make a lovely space for the library’s modern collection once we have collected enough information to […]
We have big news at the Congregational Library: we have some volunteers to help with the unpacking! Our two champions started a couple of weeks ago and have been doing an absolutely super job. Between the three of us we have unpacked nearly 60 boxes this month alone at time of writing (22 May). Given […]
Happy Easter to all! We are well and truly in the middle of spring here in Cambridge: the weather is sunny and dry, the skies are blue, the flowers are out everywhere, and a little wren sings regularly to us through the reading room window. It is a privilege to be here and Westminster College […]
Spring is here at last, and it feels like the Congregational Library is also entering a new season. Most of our monthly updates will be following a particular theme for the foreseeable future, and that theme is “unpacking”. The library has been allotted three separate areas for its collection at Westminster College: the Cheshunt Room, […]
February has been a busy month for the Congregational Library. We have had several enquiries, from simple requests for photocopying articles to deeper biographical research requests tracking down individuals connected with Congregationalism. We have also had several offers to donate materials to the Library, including the minutes of the Congregational Federation, papers relating to Christ […]
Hello and welcome to the first of a series of Congregational Library monthly updates, and there’s a lot of big news to kick off with. The biggest is that the library is moving to Westminster College, Cambridge, following a partnership between the College and the Congregational Memorial Hall Trust. It’s going to be a long […]
