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“Digging up” James Parkinson’s Organic Remains (1804-1811)
James Parkinson’s lengthily-titled Organic Remains of a former world: an examination of the mineralized remains of the vegetables and animals of the Antediluvian world; generally termed extraneous fossils was published […]
Our Annual General Meeting will be held at 5pm on Thursday 24th October, at the Institution
Please join us for our AGM at 5pm, followed by drinks. Booking essential to ensure we are quorate.
Evening lecture archive
'A Sense of Place' lecture series - 2022- 23
A perusal of Samuel Rowe’s Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville Precincts (1848)
Samuel Rowe’s love of Dartmoor shines throughout his ‘Perambulation,’ drawing on his years of personal experience exploring and researching Dartmoor. He takes the reader on a journey through time, geography, history and speculation. This book of the month post was written by Richard Green, a library volunteer and Dartmoor enthusiast.
“Rough Cyder for Summer’s drinking”: 18th century treatises on Cyder
Treatises on Cider (1755), is a collaborative piece, and is currently on display as part of our “Looking Between the Lines: Marginalia in the DEI Collections” exhibition. It is the result of various writers forwarding new advice, or even intervening to interrupt the directions of the current speaker.
Looking between the lines: Marginalia in the DEI Collections
A book is an item that may be reshaped, added to, or amended by the person who holds it. Many of our collection items at the DEI are the products […]
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.
“Too rarely visited and too little known”: Wilkie Collins’ Rambles Beyond Railways, or, Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot.
Whilst today it is a popular summer destination, in mid-Victorian Britain, Cornwall was a region that only attracted the most dedicated travellers. When the popular sensation novel writer Wilkie Collins journeyed to the far South-West in the 1850s, he accordingly entitled the account of his adventures Rambles Beyond Railways, or, Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot.
“I Will Never Consent” – Enys Tregarthen’s Powerful Padstow Mermaid
Mermaids are woven throughout South-Western folklore, but are rarely considered as "hidden histories" of marginalised figures. In this Book of the Month blog one of our volunteers, Becky Rae, explores Enys Tregarthen's fascinating forgotten tale, "The Legend of Padstow Doombar."
