Pusey House Library

In honour of the great architect Sir Ninian Comper we have an exhibition about him in our library, featuring his notebook from our archive and some of his sketches kindly lent to us by his descendants. Come and take a look before Harry Spain’s lecture about Comper at 4pm today!

Michaelmas term is shaping up to be especially rich at Pusey House! ~October 11th, First Principles: The 20th Century Principals of Pusey House and the Life of the Church ~Nov. 5-6 'The Meaning of Money' ~Nov. 12-13 'Receiving NIcaea'. Check our website for more details/tickets

It was a delight to stage a reconstruction of the Litany & Communion from the 1549 BCP on Saturday @StBartholomews, @WalkerMarcus preached the Sermon on Obedience from the 1547 Book Homilies. Music included little known repertoire from the Hammond & Lumley Partbooks.

The team at @PuseyHouse will be hosting a full programme of conferences, colloquia and lectures in Michaelmas 2025. Here is a first look at our confirmed speakers for our 'Receiving Nicaea' conference on 12–13th November. puseyhouse.org.uk/receiving-nica…

I am VERY PLEASED to announce that The Anglican Office Book now has an online edition. The complete Office is available, in both English and Latin, as well as with some musical notation. Many thanks to @shevans02 for his work on this project. anglicanoffice.com

There are some exciting things coming up at @PuseyHouse! 1⃣Conference on the Principals of Pusey House, 11 Oct 2⃣Conference on 'The Meaning of Money' 5-6 Nov 3⃣Conference on the Council of Nicaea, 12-13 Nov Check our website for more details & to get tickets before we sell out

This view never gets old 😍 📷 Instagram | ObservingOxford

Bishop Alfred Barry, in “The Teacher’s Prayer Book”, provides some more context about the commemoration of St Mary Magdalene.

In the 1549 Prayer Book, 22 July was a red letter feast day. This is the Collect that was appointed for "Sainct Mary Magdalene". The Epistle was Proverbs 31:10-31, and the "Gospell" (perpetuating the famous misidentification) was Luke 7:36-50.

Another great book available to read in our library. We and the Bodleian are the only libraries that have copies in Oxford.

And available to read in our library.

#OnThisDay Jane Austen died in Winchester on the 18th July 1817, and was buried inside Winchester Cathedral six days later on the 24th July. If you'd like to celebrate the life of Jane you can view a range of events here: bit.ly/3BV2GuQ #JaneAusten

Some very kind words by @malcolmguite in a recent article for @ChurchTimes about our theological conference on 'Restoring the Image: Creation, Salvation, and the Human Person' ⬇️⬇️

What does it mean to say that humans are made in the image of God, asks @malcolmguite churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

"Pusey House was founded in 1884 to be ‘a house of sacred learning’, a place where theological study and engagement with the intellectual life of the University of Oxford is encouraged alongside worship and prayer...” Pre-Order now: bit.ly/4kZFBbx

The latest issue of Evangelization and Culture arrived recently, a magazine published by @WordOnFire We are the only library in Oxford to subscribe to it and to the new theological journal launched by the Word on Fire Institute, which is called The New Ressourcement.

Yet more evidence that ebooks are not and never should be a replacement for physical books on open shelves.

Chickens are starting to come home to roost for universities who went all in on e-books. 15 page download limit? Hellscape.

“Literature can help us to have mercy on ourselves and others, can divest us of the ignorance that places ourselves at the center of the universe, can make possible new ways of understanding our own befuddled choices.” —Kathleen A. Mulhern plough.com/en/topics/cult…