/ en /new-college-school-choral-society <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/Poster%20for%20a%202023%20concert.png.webp?itok=mDVTyRn5" width="655" height="435" alt="Poster for a 2023 concert" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> New College School Choral Society </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Michael Stansfield</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/437" hreflang="en">New College School</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/640" hreflang="en">New College School Choral Society</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>On 21 May 1965, there took place at New College School ‘A Concert Given by Parents and Friends’ of the school. It comprised a variety of performances, ranging from three pianists playing Percy Grainger’s <em>Zanzibar Boat Song</em> at the same piano, to Mozart, Schubert, and Hopkins songs sung by Mrs Pickard, to an apparently hilarious finale of Leopold Mozart’s <em>Toy Symphony</em> featuring ‘Mr Helsby’s gentle cuckoo and Mrs Hedges’ watery nightingale’. This concert by parents and friends may have seemed at the time to have been a one-off, yet it is an antecedent of the current New College School Choral Society in involving and making use of the tremendous talent pool of this constituency of the school.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Archives, Oxford, NCA NCS/E3/3<br>Poster [detail] for a 2023 concert</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN11%20%282025%29%20Stansfield%20on%20Choral%20Society.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=409344" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN11 (2025) Stansfield on Choral Society.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">399.75 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:00:56 +0000 Christopher 3392 at /wartime-use-founders-library-1939-1946 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/Plan%20of%20Mansfield%E2%80%99s%20library%20in%20the%20Founder%E2%80%99s%20Library%20space.jpg.webp?itok=Wc4a0XYN" width="655" height="435" alt="Plan of Mansfield’s library in the Founder’s Library space" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Wartime Use of the Founder’s Library 1939–1946 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Michael Stansfield</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/145" hreflang="en">Second World War</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">New College history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/104" hreflang="en">20thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/641" hreflang="en">Mansfield College, Oxford</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>What role during the Second World War did the space at New College, known as the Founder’s Library, play in the national cause, the life of the college more generally, and the provision of library services for the members of New College itself and—which might especially be the intrigue—of its neighbour Mansfield College?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Plan of Mansfield’s library in the Founder’s Library space [detail]<br>Mansfield College Archives, Oxford</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>© Courtesy of Mansfield College Library, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN10%20%282025%29%20Stansfield%20on%20Wartime%20Use.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=587189" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN10 (2025) Stansfield on Wartime Use.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">573.43 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:00:02 +0000 Christopher 3391 at /supporting-war-effort-convalescent-hospital-new-college-during-first-world-war <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/Photograph%20of%20Mabel%20Wace%20and%20ten%20soldiers%20in%20the%20grounds%20of%20New%20College%2C%20Oxford%2C%201915.jpg.webp?itok=TECla5py" width="655" height="435" alt="Photograph of Mabel Wace and ten soldiers in the grounds of New College, Oxford, 1915" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Supporting the War Effort: The Convalescent Hospital at New College during the First World War </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">William Shire</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/182" hreflang="en">New College Gardens</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/144" hreflang="en">First World War</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">New College history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/104" hreflang="en">20thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/141" hreflang="en">Magdalen College, Oxford</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Throughout the First World War, the gardens of New College, Oxford were transformed from their usual calm greenery into a sea of tents and bustling activity—becoming a convalescent hospital designed to support the work of the Third Southern General Hospital in Oxford, which had its headquarters in the Examination Schools. Sources held primarily in the archives of New College can reveal the role played by the hospital at New College within the hospital system in Oxford during the conflict, and its development over time as the war progressed.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Photograph of Mabel Wace and ten soldiers in the grounds of New College, 1915<br>Magdalen College Archives, Oxford, P/408/P2/27</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>Magdalen College Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN9%20%282025%29%20Shire%20on%20Convalescent%20Hospital.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1285084" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN9 (2025) Shire on Convalescent Hospital.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.23 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:58:52 +0000 Christopher 3390 at /acquisition-colerne-and-stert-new-college-estates-1387-1394 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/New%20College%20Archives%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCA%2010231%20-%20Seal%20of%20John%20of%20Wykeham.JPG.webp?itok=wH4NBakk" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Archives, Oxford, NCA 10231: Seal of John of Wykeham" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Acquisition of Colerne and Stert as New College Estates (1387–1394) </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Olivier Poncet</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/647" hreflang="en">NCA 10235</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/648" hreflang="en">NCA 10245</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/649" hreflang="en">NCA 10239</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/650" hreflang="en">NCA 10232</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/651" hreflang="en">NCA 10240</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/652" hreflang="en">Colerne, Wiltshire</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/653" hreflang="en">Stert, Wiltshire</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">William of Wykeham</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/654" hreflang="en">Elizabeth Burghersh</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/655" hreflang="en">Margaret Gisors</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/656" hreflang="en">William Burcestre</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Colerne and Stert are two peaceful villages in the county of Wiltshire. Colerne was the site of a church of St John the Baptist built in the 13th century, while in the Middle Ages Stert possessed only a chapel belonging to the church of Urchfont. The acquisition of the manors there in the 14th century, with the church advowson at Colerne, was a key moment in the construction of the patrimony of New College under its founder William of Wykeham.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Seal of John of Wykeham<br>New College Archives, Oxford, NCA 10231</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN3%20%282025%29%20Poncet%20on%20Colerne%20and%20Stert.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1698652" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN3 (2025) Poncet on Colerne and Stert.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.62 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:49:04 +0000 Christopher 3384 at /so-fellows-our-college-may-persevere-be-one-mind-inwardly-and-be-more-closely-united-mutual-charity <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/New%20College%20Archives%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCA%203584%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=b7Y8FaAi" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Archives, Oxford, NCA 3584 [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> ‘So that the Fellows of our College may persevere to be of one mind inwardly and to be more closely united in mutual charity . . .’: The Annual Liveries of Fellows and Scholars of Medieval New College </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Timothy Hallett</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/657" hreflang="en">Livery</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/128" hreflang="en">William of Wykeham</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">New College history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/658" hreflang="en">NCA 9431</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/514" hreflang="en">14thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/127" hreflang="en">15thC history</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>New College, Oxford, possesses some of the most extensive and detailed accounts of any medieval collegiate foundation in Oxford and Cambridge. Amongst the 58 account rolls made by early wardens or bursars between 1376 and 1529 we find regular allocations of cloth, and sometimes furs, given as annual livery to the academic Â鶹app established by William of Wykeham. Medieval accounts can be used in combination with the founder’s statutes and surviving pictorial evidence to gain insight into the reasoning behind academic livery, the vendors who supplied cloth and furs, costs and quantities of cloth and furs, the design and colours of academic livery, plus rules on the attire which was also prohibited to members of the college.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The college porter ejects a youth, in distinctly unclerical garb, who is not a member of the college.<br>New College Archives, Oxford, NCA 3584</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN2%20%282025%29%20Hallett%20on%20Liveries.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1068896" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN2 (2025) Hallett on Liveries.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.02 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:47:31 +0000 Christopher 3383 at /time-and-tithes-wait-no-woman-dispute-between-monks-longueville-and-nuns-goring <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/New%20College%20Archives%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCA%2011924.jpg.webp?itok=kPPL85vq" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Archives, Oxford, NCA 11924" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Time and Tithes Wait for No Woman: A Dispute between the Monks of Longueville and the Nuns of Goring </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/659" hreflang="en">Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/660" hreflang="en">Goring, Oxfordshire</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/661" hreflang="en">Prioress Margareta of Goring</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Alien priories—satellite communities of French abbeys—were established throughout England following the Norman Conquest. &nbsp;One such alien priory was Newton Longville in Buckinghamshire, purchased by New College in 1441. Its archive reveals a mid 14th-century dispute with the female religious Â鶹app in Goring, a village on the Thames in south Oxfordshire.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Archives, Oxford, NCA 11924</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN1%20%282025%29%20Hendy-Hodgkinson%20on%20Monks%20and%20Nuns.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=695980" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN1 (2025) Hendy-Hodgkinson on Monks and Nuns.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">679.67 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:41:44 +0000 Christopher 3382 at /three-stapletons-and-other-remarkable-acquisitions-new-college-library-2024 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-12/Endpapers%20illustration%20by%20Nicola%20Howell%20Hawley%20to%20Andrew%20Caldecott%E2%80%99s%20Simul%20%282024%29.jpeg.webp?itok=Ls2TPwSP" width="655" height="435" alt="Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s Simul (2024)" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to New College Library in 2024 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 22</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/117" hreflang="en">Thomas Stapleton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/615" hreflang="en">BT1.17.22</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/616" hreflang="en">BT3.12.13</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/617" hreflang="en">BT3.38.15</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/273" hreflang="en">John Owen</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/618" hreflang="en">Francis Noel Clarke Mundy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/420" hreflang="en">William Somervile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/387" hreflang="en">Edward Perry Warren</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/619" hreflang="en">Erich Maria Remarque</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/544" hreflang="en">Duff Cooper</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/230" hreflang="en">Kate Mosse</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/620" hreflang="en">Chris Lethbridge</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/621" hreflang="en">Andrew Caldecott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/622" hreflang="en">Paul Hoffman</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>The earliest important imprints acquired in 2024 are three 16th- and early 17th-century volumes by a priest and scholar whose erudition was much admired by Pope Clement VIII. Thomas Stapleton (1535–98), one of college’s foremost theologians, was possibly named after St Thomas More—who was martyred under Henry VIII for refusing to avow royal over spiritual supremacy; More was executed just days before Stapleton’s birth. From Winchester College, Stapleton proceeded to New College, where in 1553 he was elected a fellow. In 1558, he was ordained a priest under Mary I. But within a couple of years, he had been forced to flee to the Low Countries, following Elizabeth I’s accession.</h3> <h3>And, of course, we have been acquiring some remarkable modern books and archival documents too.&nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s <em>Simul</em> (2024)<br>New College Library, Oxford, NC/CAL</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-01/22NCN8%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%202024.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1670130" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN8 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2024.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.59 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:13:08 +0000 Christopher 3261 at /ralph-hope <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-07/Ralph%20Hope%E2%80%99s%20sheepskin%20flying%20mittens.png.webp?itok=uDtr_5mr" width="655" height="435" alt="Ralph Hope’s sheepskin flying mittens, New College Archives, Oxford" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Ralph Hope </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Mark Pyper</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 21</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/582" hreflang="en">Ralph Hope</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/145" hreflang="en">Second World War</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/583" hreflang="en">Battle of Britain</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/584" hreflang="en">Royal Air Force</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/585" hreflang="en">War heroes</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>From a glittering Eton career, Ralph Hope (1914–1940) joined New College, Oxford in 1932. In June 1938, he joined 605 Squadron as a volunteer member of the Auxiliary Air Force based in Castle Bromwich. The Battle of Britain officially lasted from 10 July to 31 October 1940, but Ralph had been on active service since May of that year. He was ‘brought down’ on 14 October, having stayed in his plane until he was over open ground, so as not to endanger the lives of fellow citizens. He thus very definitely gave his life so that others might live.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Ralph Hope’s sheepskin flying mittens<br>New College Archives, Oxford, NCA JCR/R/HopeR</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-07/21NCN8%20%282024%29%20Pyper%20on%20Ralph%20Hope.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1143455" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN8 (2024) Pyper on Ralph Hope.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.09 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:45:23 +0000 Christopher 3152 at /amicabilis-concordia-1444-2024 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-07/The%20signed%20and%20beribboned%20menu%20for%20dinner%20after%20the%20King%27s%20College%20versus%20New%20College%20football%201924%2C%20NCA%20JCR-R-Mallett-4b.jpg.webp?itok=V0K-WC_n" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Archives, NCA JCR/R/Mallett/4b" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Amicabilis Concordia 1444–2024 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Michael Stansfield</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 21</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/557" hreflang="en">Amicabilis Concordia</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">New College history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/558" hreflang="en">King's College, Cambridge</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/77" hreflang="en">Winchester College</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/559" hreflang="en">Eton College</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>The <em>Amicabilis Concordia</em>, or friendship agreement, is a document renowned these days for the evensongs occasionally held in its name by four colleges dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary; that is New College, Oxford, King’s College, Cambridge, Eton College, and Winchester College. &nbsp;The Concordia was sealed on 1 July 1444 as a quadripartite indenture.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The signed and beribboned menu for dinner after the King’s College versus New College football 1924 [detail]<br>New College Archives, Oxford, NCA JCR/R/Mallett/4b</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-07/21NCN1%20%282024%29%20Stansfield%20on%20Amicabilis%20Concordia.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=675461" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN1 (2024) Stansfield on Amicabilis Concordia.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">659.63 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:48:12 +0000 Christopher 3145 at /unique-and-distinctive-acquisitions-new-college-library-2023 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2023-12/New%20College%20Rowing%20IV%2C%20Cloisters%2C%20New%20College%20%281909%29%E2%80%94showing%20Ernest%20Victor%20Culme-Seymour%20%28second%20from%20left%29.jpg.webp?itok=kQxoOdvy" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Rowing IV, Cloisters, New College (1909)—showing Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour (second from left), NCA JCR/R/Culme-Seymour/23" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to New College Library in 2023 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2023): 20</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/536" hreflang="en">Thomas Harding</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/537" hreflang="en">George Bate</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/79" hreflang="en">Edward Young</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/538" hreflang="en">Thomas Ken</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/539" hreflang="en">Walter Montagu</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/540" hreflang="en">Sir Joseph Miles Clay</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/541" hreflang="en">Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/300" hreflang="en">William Leonard Courtney</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/529" hreflang="en">John Fowles</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/542" hreflang="en">D. M. Thomas</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/543" hreflang="en">Owen Sheers</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/230" hreflang="en">Kate Mosse</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/544" hreflang="en">Duff Cooper</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/545" hreflang="en">John Julius Norwich</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Ongoing collection development activity ensures we do not rest on our laurels, and 2023 saw us procure important antiquarian items that speak to times of religious and political conflict. Chief among them are: a rare copy of <em>An Answere to Maister Juelles Chalenge</em> (1564) by New College Jesuit theologian Thomas Harding (1516–1572), who fled to Louvain for refuge following the accession of Elizabeth I; a donation by a generous alumnus of <em>Miscellanea Spiritualia: or, Devout Essaies</em> (1648) by Benedictine abbot Walter Montagu (1603?–1677), who as a recusant was banished, then later imprisoned in the Tower of London; a copy of a defence of Charles I during the Civil War period, <em>Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia</em> (1649), by New College man George Bate (1608–1668), who extraordinarily was chief physician successively to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II; and four books (at auction) by college fellow Thomas Ken (1637–1711), who refused to comply with the attempts of James II to grant the realm religious freedom and suspend enforced conformity to the Church of England.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Rowing IV, Cloisters, New College (1909)—showing Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour (second from left)<br>New College Archives, Oxford, NCA JCR/R/Culme-Seymour/23</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2023-12/20NCN10%20%282023%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%20in%202023.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1730828" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN10 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions in 2023.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.65 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:09:49 +0000 Christopher 2928 at