Angus Library and Archive

27/10/2025

You are warmly invited to the first of our Autumn series of Friends of the Angus seminars, when Dr Lee Spitzer, Research Fellow for the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Amsterdam and Historian at the Baptist World Alliance, will be speaking on the history of the BWA in his talk:

'Sharing Jesus with the World: 120 Years of Baptist World Alliance Reflection and Witness'

Please join us for a thought provoking and interesting evening online at 7.30 on the 13th of November.

To book a free ticket please go to:: :https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-baptist-studies

09/06/2025

This volume of pamphlets written by Henry Layton (1622-1705), author of works on among other subjects, the immortality of the soul, was once in the library of the great philosopher and physician John Locke (1632-1704) and now resides in the Angus.
In a 1702 letter, Layton thanked Locke for the 'easie reception of my book' & Locke notes that the book is the authors gift, ex dono authoris, next to his name.

09/06/2025

We are delighted to announce that the Baptist Times and the Baptist Union Handbooks have now been digitised and are available online at Find My Past www.findmypast.co.uk and the British Newspapers Archive www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Happy searching!

05/05/2025

Important announcement!

The Angus Library will close temporarily from January - October 2026 to all visitors & enquirers.
Temporary closure will enable us to carry out important library and archive tasks. We'll be able to reopen late next year providing an even better service while protecting and promoting our amazing collections to new and existing users.
For more details, please go to :
https://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/temporary-closure-of-the-angus-library-and-archive/

27/03/2025

An amazing story about a rare find - the beautiful Bible translated into Chinese by Baptist Missionary Joshua Marshman & the Armenian translator Johannes Lassar, who was fluent in the Chinese language. What an incredible discovery!

The rare book, which is dated 1815-1822 and translated by John Lassar and Joshua Marshman, was originally found in a pile of donations at Oxfam’s Chelmsford bookshop in Essex.

27/03/2025

You are very warmly invited to the next in our series of online 'Opening the Angus' online seminars at 7.30 on the 2nd of April. Paloma Miravet Llorens will be giving a fascinating talk about gender and agency in colonial societies (Fernando Po, 19th century) in 'We the principal inhabitants of this town'.

03/03/2025

Please join us for our Friends of the Angus online seminar this Thursday, the 6th of March at 7.30.
Dr Zach Williams of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will be giving his talk, "A 'Capital Part' of Salvation: Abraham Booth on the necessity of Holiness in the Christian Life".
Abraham Booth was an extraordinary figure; Baptist minister, author, fierce opponent of slavery and strong proponent of education, being a founding member of the Baptist Education Society.
All are welcome! To register for tickets, please go to: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-baptist-studies

24/12/2024

Angus Advent Calendar Day 24 takes us to Dholpur in India, where we find Father Christmas in 1928 swapping his reindeer for a magnificent elephant- which presumably couldn't fly.
Merry Christmas to all of our supporters, researchers, visitors and friends!

23/12/2024

The Angus Advent Calendar Day 23! Here is a glowing
star taken from the pages of a sweet little Edwardian book called 'True Comforts' which we have in the library.

22/12/2024

Angus Library Advent Calendar Day 22.
For soldiers fighting in the cold and misery of World War One, receiving a stocking at Christmas must have seemed like an impossible dream. The members of Baxter Gate Baptist Church in Loughborough however were determined to ensure that these brave men were remembered and reminded that they were loved and cherished.
Here's a list of items sent out by the church to members, which could be sent in parcels to the troops. Note the pencilled additions of flash lamps, cocoa and ci******es to the official list.

21/12/2024

Here is a cosy scene taken from an early C19th edition of Robert Burns’ poem 'The Cottager's Saturday Night'. It contains a very pleasing and affecting description of the piety and happiness of a cottager and his family, a lovely, cosy family scene for the holidays. Can you spot their pet dog?

21/12/2024

On the 20th day of the Angus Advent calendar, here is an array of models beautifully made out of pith. The boys are looking on proudly at their creations in this photograph from the 1920s, taken in Yakusu, DRC. There are miniature versions of steam boats, identical to those then seen on the Congo River as well as an amazing bicycle and plane. Perhaps these models would have been too precious to play with, but it would be nice to think they were.