Job Vacancy: Project Administrator FT 8 months
Project Administrator The Angus Library and Archive 8 months, full-time £20,000 pro rata Regent’s Park College (RPC), a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, has a grant- funded...
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Hidden treasure
Seeing as I have now been in post for three weeks, I thought it about time that I write a blog post to replace the advertisement for my position. My first three weeks at the Angus have been wonderful....
View ArticleHidden treasures, part 2: He who watcheth
As I mentioned last week, the story of the Lorrain’s “holiday trip of 4000 miles” is too good not to be shared. It is very much fixed at a certain point in time but is so well written that it gives a...
View ArticleHidden Treasures, part 3: In which the Lorrains encounter a fierce storm, a...
“It seems that we have been asleep but a few minutes when we hear the stentorian voice of our travelling companion shouting to the boatman to get up, & upon looking at our watch we find it already...
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Discovering the treasures
August is a somewhat strange month here at the Angus. We are closed to the public for the month which allows us time to get on with other jobs which are not that easy to perform when we have visitors....
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Navigating the Congo: Free Exhibition and Talks
Booking now open! 21st September – 26th September 2015, Regent’s Park College, Oxford Featuring artefacts, navigational equipment, maps, photographs, personal letters and diaries, Navigating the Congo...
View ArticleHidden treasures: Part 4 – A very solemn Sabbath
Next morning we wake to find it raining, but this does not hinder us in the least; the naked boatmen perhaps work all the harder, for the air is cool & pleasant. At 8 oclock [sic] in the morning...
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Our Top 5 Tips for Creating Exhibitions on a Budget.
Over the last 3 years the Angus has produced four pop-up exhibitions as part of our current Hidden Treasures project which is being funded by the HLF and BUGB. This funding has allowed us to work with...
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Hidden treasures, part 5. In which I realise that this diary is written by...
First of all, today’s excerpt for your enjoyment: “On Monday morning we are up betimes, soon after sunrise we pass by the piles of the new bridge which is to bring the train across the river & so...
View ArticleEscaping to 1896 India…
It’s been a very busy few days here at Regent’s Park College. All our new students have arrived and there is a much busier, more vibrant feel to the building than there has been over the summer. All...
View ArticleAn Elephant Ride to Chitor
Hello, from us all at the Angus. We’re back again after quite a while , but we are as busy as ever! Today on this cold and grey November morning in Oxford I thought it might be good to have a glimpse...
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‘Just a Novelty’ …. Taking a Bioscope to the Congo
Looking through some files in this strange time of working at home, I came across copies of letters written by a young man named Frank Oldrieve in the summer of 1905 . Frank was about to become a...
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Mantantu Dundulu, N’lemvo. Linguist, pioneer, man of faith.
To celebrate Black History Month, Dr Daniel Gerrard , Lecturer in Medieval History here at Regent’s, is jumping ahead a few centuries from the Middle Ages to write about an amazing man, Mantantu...
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