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'Fine old fellows': Bishop Broughton's library
Erin Mollenhauer24 Jan 2022How do you build a theological library in a new colony? For William Grant Broughton, Archdeacon of NSW and then Bishop of Australia, the answer was crowdsourcing! The commercial book...
The Latimer Collection and its provenance
Erin Mollenhauer12 Apr 2021In 2020 the Donald Robinson Library was privileged to receive a generous donation of 16th-18th century theological books from Latimer Trust in the UK. They now reside in the rare...
The Port Jackson Lending Library
Erin Mollenhauer15 May 2020The oldest existing collection of books, which may be described as a Library, in Australia is the Port Jackson Lending Library. This small collection of commentaries and theological works was...