Libraries

1931: Relocation The newly named ‘Paton Library’ first came into existence at the time of the school’s relocation from its original site in Long Millgate to its present home in 1931, being named afte…

This week’s object has the curious distinction of being older than the school itself – though only by about twenty years. It is a printed missal: the book that a priest would need on the altar for th…

For me, the most romantic (with a small r) book in the Rare Books Collection is an edition of the great scholar Erasmus’ translation of the New Testament into Latin from the original Greek. Erasmus f…