All Souls College Library

The 1751 All Souls College Library, with its upper spires and crockets, as well as the intricate bar tracery of the windows, is a superb example of Collegiate Gothic Revival architecture.

All Souls College Library
External view
The library as viewed from All Souls' North Quad
Internal view
The interior of the library with statue of Christopher Codrington
Map
LocationAll Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom
TypeAcademic library
Established1751
Collection
Items collectedBooks, journals, newspapers, magazines, maps, drawings, manuscripts
Size185,000 items
Access and use
Access requirementsOpen to members of Oxford University and to external scholars by application.
Other information
DirectorProfessor Peregrine Horden (Fellow Librarian)
Gaye Morgan (Librarian in Charge & Conservator)
WebsiteOfficial website

All Souls College Library, known until 2020 as the Codrington Library, is an academic library in the city of Oxford, England.[1] It is the library of All Souls College, a graduate constituent college of the University of Oxford.

The library in its current form was endowed by Christopher Codrington (1668–1710), a fellow of the college who amassed his fortune through his sugar plantations in Barbados, an island in the British West Indies. These were worked by enslaved people of African descent.[2] Codrington bequeathed books worth £6,000, in addition to £10,000 in currency (the equivalent of approximately £1.2 million in modern terms).[3] The library, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, begun in 1716, was completed in 1751 and has been in continuous use by scholars since then. It is Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England.[4]

The modern collection comprises some 185,000 items, about a third of which were produced before 1800.[5] The library's collections are particularly strong in Law, European History, Ecclesiastical History, Military History, and Classics. There is an expanding collection devoted to sociological topics and the History of Science.[5] Unusually for an Oxford college library, access to the Codrington is open to all members of the university (subject to registration).[6] The library contains a significant collection of manuscripts and early printed books, and attracts scholars from around the world.

The first woman to be admitted as a reader to the library was Cornelia Sorabji from Somerville College, at the invitation of Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet in 1890.[7]

Renaming

Plaque erected by the entrance to the All Souls College Library to the enslaved people who worked on the Codrington Plantations

In November 2020, the college took the decision to stop referring to the library as the Codrington Library, as part of a set of "steps to address the problematic nature of the Codrington legacy", which derives from exploitation of slave plantations. While the library has since been renamed, a statue of Christopher Codrington remains in the center of the reading room. [8]

References

  1. ^ Simmons, John S. (1982). "A note on the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford". Oxford: All Souls College. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.
  2. ^ Walvin, James (17 February 2011). "Slavery and the Building of Britain". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. ^ "National Archives Currency Converter". The National Archives. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  4. ^ Historic England. "All Souls College, Codrington Library (1046762)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  5. ^ a b "The Codrington Library". Oxford: All Souls College. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  6. ^ "The Codrington Library Applications". Oxford: All Souls College. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  7. ^ Pauline Adams (1996). Somerville for women: an Oxford college, 1879–1993. Oxford University Press. p. 114. ISBN 019920179X.
  8. ^ "All Souls College and the Codrington Legacy". Retrieved 16 November 2020.

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