News
Our Annual General Meeting will be held at 5pm on Thursday 19th October, at the Institution
Please join us for our AGM at 5pm, followed by drinks. Booking essential to ensure we are quorate. Tours of the side courtyard building site will be available from 4pm (please wear suitable footwear)
Call for Papers: ‘Transformations and Change Makers’
The Devon & Exeter Institution invites you to respond to its annual call for papers, interacting with the theme of “Transformations and Change Makers.”
Trustee / Treasurer needed to help deliver our Next Chapter…
We are now looking for a new trustee to strengthen our Board and to succeed our Treasurer next year. Click below to find out more about the role.
New table top display: ‘In the roar of the sea’
Take a trip to the Outer Library to enjoy some seaside delights from our special collections.
Courtenay Room lunches – Spring 2024
Building work is continuing in the Inner Library and we hope to resume lunches by Easter.
We are delighted to be offering lunches in the Courtenay Room for Spring, with our new catering partner, Cebi. Lunches will be available every Wednesday.
Please see the noticeboard for weekly specials.
A Touch of Ireland— A Book Display for St Patrick’s Day
For St. Patrick’s Day this year we decided to draw on some items in the collection which relate to Ireland in some way. Some texts were written by Irish […]
Announcing the Devon and Exeter Institution and Quay Words shared writer-in-residence in March and April 2023 – Davina Quinlivan
The Devon and Exeter Institution and Quay Words are pleased to announce Davina Quinlivan as our shared writer-in-residence in March and April, focusing on the theme of Threads. Davina will […]
New table-top display: ‘The other side of the story’
This new display highlights challenges to the colonial perspectives encountered in our Voyages and Travel book collection, both historical and modern, to give an idea of ‘the other side of the story’.
Bowdler’s defence of single women
Our Book of the Month for January is H. M. Bowdler's 'Pen Tamar'; a novel in which the author seeks to address early nineteenth century attitudes towards single women. Set against a backdrop of the English Civil War, this moral tale of romance and heartbreak tells the story of Matilda Heywood and her relationship with Devonian Sir William Trelawney, in which he is taught to challenge his preconceived ideas about 'old maids'.
The worst journey in the world
Our Book of the Month for December was researched and written by Tony Rhodes, a library volunteer at the Devon and Exeter Institution. Apsley Cherry-Gerrard was a member of the infamous Terra Nova expedition. His first hand account recalls the race to the South Pole that tragically turned out to be the final expedition for Robert Falcon Scott. December 2022 marks the 100 year anniversary since the book's first publication.