Items (632 total)

Manuscript letter from a port providing an insight into aspect of his life in the army, censorship and how the British empire was perceived by the local population. Also mentioning the distance and the difficulties of communication by letter with his…

Sepia toned photograph of Uncle Viccy. [Prince Victor of Cooch-Behar]

Photograph of two students viewing the University of Exeter charter, 1955

Transcripts of 120 letters of the poet John Jarmain to his wife Beryl, with whom he regularly corresponded after travelling to North Africa and South Italy during the Second World War. The letters are dated from 17 June 1942 to 04 November 1943.…

Black and white photograph showing the composer Tom Eastwood sitting at the dinner table at West Mill with Ronald, Rose Marie, and Briony. Labelled 'Tom Eastwood RD & RMD & Briony at W.M. in 60's'

Aerial view

Photograph of the exterior of Thomas Hall. Originally called Great Duryard, an early 18th century mansion in 14 acres, was acquired in 1935 and renamed after C V Thomas, a Cornish solicitor and businessman and a benefactor of the College whose gift…

Sepia toned photograph postcard of the West End of the Chapel at Exeter Diocesan Training College, a teacher training college in Exeter, which was renamed St Luke's College in 1930. The Chapel was built in 1896. It suffered a direct hit from a bomb…

Strip map by John Ogilby. This item may have originally come from the atlas 'Britannia, volume the first' (2nd ed, 1675) or 'Itinerarium Angliae' (1675), or possibly from the 1698 reprint of 'Britannia'.

Black and white photograph showing Ronald Duncan with an unknown man overlooking a beach. Labelled on reverse, 'The Ishmaelites!'

Sepia toned photograph postcard of the Gymansium at the Exeter Diocesan Training College, a teacher training college in Exeter, which was renamed St Luke's College in 1930. The gymnasium was converted into the Library in 1961.

Town plan of Exeter on paper, engraved by William Schmollinger, with illustrations of St. Peter's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the Castle, and the Exe Bridge by R. Brown. It includes a legend to public buildings and the parishes, churches and chapels.

Black and white photograph of male and female tennis first sixes on steps by Reed Hall, University College of the South West

In unidentified classroom

Also seated: Stewart Purvis and Paul Jackson, both students in the 1960s.

Left-right: Rex Richards, Chancellor; Ted Hughes; Harry Kay, VC

General exterior view.