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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth, an exhibition of the poet Robert Browning's correspondence, poetry manuscripts, photographs and personal items held in Balliol College's modern manuscripts collection will be open to the public Monday-Friday 1-5 October, 2-4pm at Balliol's Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church, Holywell, Oxford. All welcome. The door will be open; no need to book. There is no entrance fee.

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September 2012

Balliol's Historic Collections Centre at St Cross Church will be open to the public as part of Oxford Open Doors Days, Saturday and Sunday 8-9 September 2012, 12-4pm both days. For a map of the area, please see our Visit page.

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June 2012

Balliol Archives & Manuscripts will be celebrating International Archives Day (9 June) by participating in #archday12 on Twitter, organised by @AskArchivists . The day itself is a Saturday, so like many archivists around the world Anna Sander will be taking questions and posting content (links on twitter to content here on the blog) on Friday 8 and Monday 11 June.

Of course, you don't have to wait for an occasion like this to make an enquiry to Balliol's archivist, but the event is an opportunity to ask lots of archivists questions about their work, their collections and research using all kinds of original source material, from medieval manuscripts to early modern maps to photographs and film. Come and join in!

If you are not on Twitter, you can also ask questions for this event via the Facebook page or by email .

http://twitter.com/#!/balliolarchives
http://balliolarchivist.wordpress.com/

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March 2012 Dr John Jones' St Cross Church, Holywell: its history, architecture, people, and conversion into an Historic Collections Centre is out of print, and is now available in print-ready PDF format here.

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October 2011

More ways to stay in touch with Balliol Archives and Manuscripts:

blog http://balliolarchivist.wordpress.com/

flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/balliolarchivist/

twitter https://twitter.com/#!/balliolarchives

facebook https://www.facebook.com/balliolarchives

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01 October 2011 The college archives and all manuscript collections are now open to researchers by prior appointment in the new facilities at St Cross Church, Holywell. They are no longer stored or available for consultation in the main College Library in Broad Street. Contact Anna Sander, Lonsdale Curator of Archives & Manuscripts, for more information or to request an appointment to consult the collections.

For more information about the St Cross Church project 2008-2011, please see http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Archives/stcross01.asp

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October 2010

• the Balliol College Register 1833-1933 (2nd ed) is now available on flickr - not word-searchable, but indexed and easy to browse
• first sets of images on flickr: photos of building works progress at St Cross Church through 2010
• images from the archives and manuscripts will appear on our new page at flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/balliolarchivist/ - we hope the gallery and slideshow functions will be much easier to use than previous attempts to post images on this site.
• follow the new Archives & Manuscripts blog at http://balliolarchivist.wordpress.com/

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June 2010 - now available online:

• images of documents relating to St Margaret Pattens (Archives B.14 and B.16) here
• catalogue of TH Green papers here
• images of the minute book of the Hanover Club (1911-1914) here.
• Register entries and photographs relating to members of the Fairfax family here
• photographs of Francis Fortescue Urquhart here
• photograph each of Thomas Hill Green and Arnold Toynbee here

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Several key publications about the history of Balliol College are now available online via the Internet Archive and other internet book sites. Books are available in full, free and in several different searchable formats. A few of the Balliol titles:

• Balliofergus By Henry Savage, 1668. The first history of an Oxford college.
• Early History of Balliol College. By Frances de Paravicini, 1891.
• Balliol College (University of Oxford College Histories series). By HWC Davies, 1899.
• Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol. By AL Tollemache, 1904.
• Balliol College Register, 1st ed (1914)

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A leaflet about the St Cross project is available here.

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advance warning of suspension of service during the move to St Cross

There will have to be a period when the logistics dictate that access to the collections or enquiry service will be limited or entuirely suspended. This may occupy most of the calendar year 2011; updates will be posted as far in advance as possible. The period of reduced or closed service will of course be minimised as far as we can; a major purpose of the project after all is to make the College’s treasures more easily available. But in the meantime scholars who know that their research is going to involve Balliol’s original resources are advised to plan their programmes accordingly, and, if they can, to advance their approach to Balliol.

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October 09 Archives Annual Report 2008-9 as published in the Annual Record

October 08 Archives Annual Report 2007-8 as published in the Annual Record

October 07 Archives Annual Report 2006-7 as published in the Annual Record

October 06 Archives Annual Report 2005-6 This report was cut off at the bottom of a page of the 2006 Annual Record , so here is the full illustrated version.

October 05 Archives Annual Report 2004-5 as published in the Annual Record

- Anna Sander