Tuesday, June 18, 2013


           Interested in running an Archiving for the Future course in your area?

At The Angus Library & Archive we are in need of volunteers to help run Archiving for the Future courses in churches across the UK.

We are looking for anyone with experience in training others, or with knowledge of archiving, to present our Archiving course to prospective groups.

Full ‘train the trainer’ training will be provided, as well as Archiving for the Future training for those coming from a different background.

Own transport is desirable as well as an understanding of religious history in Britain.

Would suit those with the ability to engage with others, and an interest in conserving the history of faith communities.

For more information, or for an application form, please contact: anja.clark@regents.ox.ac.uk, 01865 288 142

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Meet our Team!



Emma Walsh has been the College Librarian at Regent’s Park College since 2008. She has qualifications in both library studies and theology. This job brings together the two main areas of her experience as a Librarian and a Baptist Minister. Although her strangest job has been as a fish monger!

Julian Lock has been part-time Archivist (looking after the library's collections of unpublished material) since 2005, having also done editing work, written for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and - a long time ago - done a doctorate in Elizabethan religious history.

Emily Burgoyne has been the Library Assistant at The Angus since 2009, having previously worked at the Oxfordshire Records Office. Emily has a History BA, and drinks copious amounts of tea.

Anja Clark joined us in February 2013 as our Library/Project Administrator. She has a degree in German and Italian and has experience working in administration in the banking sector in London.

Katie Pearce joined us in April 2013 as our Learning and Participation Officer. She has an MA in Nineteenth-Century Studies and has experience volunteering with young people in the museum and heritage sector. 




Nathanael Hodge has been volunteering in the archive since 2011. He works at the Mills Archive in Reading and is currently studying for an MSc in Archive Administration.

Georgiana Datcu started as an Archive Volunteer in May 2013. She has an MSc in Marine Biology and also volunteers at the Natural History Museum in London and Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

John Jeffs joined us in May 2013 as an Archive Volunteer.  He is a retired actuary with an interest in history and has recently completed the Oxford University course for the Undergraduate Diploma in English Local History.

Blanca Verdía joined us in May 2013 as a Research Volunteer. She has an MA in Historiography and a PhD in Victorian Historiography and Religion. She has experience working as a teacher and volunteering in schools and museums of Oxford.

Jasmine Ansari has recently joined the Volunteer team at the Angus Library. Jasmine has wide experience of working in theological and specialist libraries. Her interests are in Pluralism and Interfaith studies. She has language skills in Indic/Arabic.

Mariam Noueiri joined us in May 2013 as an exhibition research and interpretation volunteer. She has an MSc in Cognitive Brain Imaging and also volunteers with dementia patients.

We have a wide range of volunteering opportunities at The Angus, for further information please email:  anja.clark@regents.ox.ac.uk


Rev. Dr. Joseph Angus

Rev. Dr. Joseph Angus left what is now the core of The Angus Library and Archive collection to Regent’s Park College. Rev. Dr. Joseph Angus was a Baptist minister and educationist; he was Principal of Regent’s Park College from 1849 to 1893.

Vacancy - Educational Consultant


The Angus Library and Archive are seeking an Educational Consultant to oversee the development of creative and visionary National Curriculum resources with a focus on KS3 and KS4 History.

Key Responsibilities:

        Oversee all development of educational resources to include the design of online content

        Work with teacher volunteers in the co creation of educational resources for KS3 and KS4 students in the area of History

        Liaise with the Learning and Participation Officer, College Librarian and volunteers in regard to resource development

        Advocate for the project in regional and national arenas

 
The essential requirements are:

        Demonstrated enthusiasm and passion about helping people engage with history, heritage and/or culture

        Experience in public engagement in the museum, archive or other cultural sector

        Experience in working with schools

        Experience in the development of learning activities

        Excellent IT literacy, with proven Microsoft Office experience

        Strong interpersonal and communication skills

        Ability to work on own initiative, with strong organizational and time management skills

        Ability to work as part of a team and follow instructions

        An appropriate degree

 
The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 5 July 2013.

For full details, please see our website: http://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=294&tln=AboutUs

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Project Newsletter June 2013

Our first Project Newsletter is now available!

Click here to view! If you would like to subscribe to the mailing list, please contact angus.library@regents.ox.ac.uk

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

New Vacancy: Antiquarian Cataloguer



 

 
Antiquarian Cataloguer

The Angus Library and Archive

2.5 years, full-time

£32,000 per annum

 Regent’s Park College (RPC), a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, has a full-time, grant- funded position for an Antiquarian Cataloguer. RPC has secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Baptist Union’s Newington Court Fund to deliver an exciting project which will enable The Angus Library and Archive (The Angus) to realise its full potential as a treasure trove of primary sources.

We are therefore looking to recruit an experienced, highly knowledgeable and motivated person with formal experience in cataloguing procedures and practices to fill this important and interesting post. This position will focus on cataloguing the backlog of works in The Angus and developing a plan to catalogue, conserve or dispose of items using Aleph DCRB/AACR2 cataloguing rules. The role will involve being responsible for all the cataloguing undertaken as part of the HLF project and will be the direct point of contact for all other cataloguing roles. The role requires knowledge of antiquarian cataloguing standards and experience in the use of external bibliographic databases (RLIN, OCLC, CURL, LOCIS). Knowledge and experience of Heritage Lottery Fund projects, and a knowledge of Latin or Greek or at least one modern European language would be desirable but not essential.
For more information regarding this position or to request an information pack please contact the Project Administrator, anja.clark@regents.ox.ac.uk or (01865)288142.

 Closing date is 5pm Friday 24th May 2013. Interviews will be held on Monday 3rd June 2013.





 


 

 

 

The Beasts in The Angus: The Heraldic Pelican



PRO LEGE REGE ET GREGE: For the Law, the King, and the Nation.
“Love kepyth the lawe, obeyeth the Kynge, and is good for the Comm’n Welthe.”

This image is from the final page of the New Testament in English, edited from the Tyndale version and printed by the London-based printer and bookseller Richard Judge or Jugge (d. 1577). Judge’s printer’s device is prominently displayed: in the medallion is a pelican feeding her children by pecking her chest.

The Medieval tale of the pelican states that when the chicks begin to grow, they rebel against their father and incite his anger. The provoked male bird kills his chicks; when the female bird returns to the nest and discovers her dead young, she pierces her breast and feeds her blood to her brood. The mother’s blood revives the chicks, the mother pelican is therefore often depicted as an emblem of piety and charity.[i]

Naturalists observed that the pelican had a red tip to its beak and small areas of crimson plumage; they therefore reported that the pelican fed its young with blood flowing from its breast. The reddish tinge on the pelican is in fact natural colouring, and the behaviour of the pelican which may have resulted in this legend is part of its ordinary feeding process. The pelican has a sack which acts as a container for the fish that it feeds to its young. When feeding its chicks, the bird presses the sack back against its neck in an action which mimics opening its breast with its bill.

As Jesus Christ set forth the redemption through His blood, which he willingly shed for His children, early Christians adopted the pelican as an emblem of Jesus Christ.[ii]

Then sayd the pellycane

   When my byrats be slayne
With my bloude I them reuyue (revive)
   Scrypture doth record,
   The same dyd our Lord,
And rose from deth to lyue.”
                     Skelton, Armory of Birds 




[i] One of the most popular books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus, contains a number of moralised tales about beasts.
Anon, Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore, 1587, translated by Michael Curley, 2009.
[ii] J. Vinycomb, Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art, 1909.