Library & Archive | Pusey House Oxford

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THE LIBRARY

The Pusey House Library is a hidden gem in Oxford.

The Library began with Dr Pusey's personal collection of rare books, bought by his friends after his death. Since 1884, we have continually expanded with the latest theological and historical scholarship. We now hold over 75,000 volumes.

Our main specialism is the history of the Oxford Movement, but we also have extensive holdings in patristics, liturgy, doctrinal theology and broader Church history.

The Library is open 9.30am-5.25pm, Monday to Friday. Everybody is welcome. To sign up as a new reader, please email pusey.librarian@stx.ox.ac.uk with your full details and bring along a form of photo ID on your first visit.

THE ARCHIVE

The Archive contains extensive material on the Tractarians and the Oxford Movement, records of a number of Anglo-Catholic societies and monastic orders, letters and papers of numerous notable Anglicans, and memorabilia of Pusey himself.

The Pusey memorabilia includes a large number of letters transcribed by Henry Parry Liddon for his Life of Pusey, the manuscript of which is also held. Some of the autograph letters which Liddon transcribed and returned to their owners have now been lost, which lends the transcriptions an added importance.

Our St John Henry Newman papers are fully digitised on the NINS Digital Collections platform. We are very grateful to the USA's National Institute for Newman Studies for their generous support of this project.

Visits to the Pusey House Archive are by appointment only. Please contact pusey.librarian@stx.ox.ac.uk for more information.