We are a thriving Independent Historic Library and Educational Charity, welcoming new members of all ages.
We are open as usual: Tuesdays to Fridays 10am-5pm and Saturdays 10am-4pm.
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News

Member’s Cinema Club

Our member's cinema club meets on the third Wednesday of each month to enjoy a film together. Doors open at 6pm with the film starting at 6.30pm. After the film we enjoy a chat over tea/coffee, with nibbles, in the Courtenay Room.

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Cooking the books

Voltaire is said to have remarked that, ‘England has a hundred religions and only one sauce’ – our heritage collection suggests otherwise. This year, we are celebrating Heritage Open Days (10-19 September 2021) with a book display in the Outer Library curated by one of our members, Tony Rhodes.

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The Royal Record

Our collections are full of surprises. August's Book of the Month was discovered by one of our volunteers, Tony Rhodes, while working on the heritage collection in the Outer Library.

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Current covid guidelines at the DEI – from 1st March 2022

Wearing a mask is encouraged but not enforced and the current guidance for Museums, Libraries and Archives from the DDCMS is  that 'We continue to suggest the use of face coverings in enclosed or crowded places, particularly where you come into contact with people you don’t normally meet'

Please do not visit the Institution if you have tested positive for Covid-19. 

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Weather reporting at the Devon and Exeter Institution

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day ... Are you wondering where summer is? From January 1817, one of the most important tasks of the Librarian at the Devon and Exeter Institution was taking twice-daily readings from the Institution's barometer and thermometer and recording them in a meteorological register.

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