| Description | This series comprises printed material on historical subjects collected by the community but not directly relating to the history of Syon Abbey or the Bridgettine Order. It includes:
- Pamphlet entitled 'The Home Teacher A Cycolpedia of Self-Instruction' by Samuel Neil [c 1890]; - Pamphlet entitled, 'The Escaped Nun from East Bergholt' by Rev. Sydney F. Smith, S.J. [no date, c 1909] - Pamphlet entitled, 'The Canterbury Psalter'' (1934); - Journal entitled, 'The Nineteenth Century and After 1877-1938' (1938); - Offprint of an article entitled, 'The Redpath Library: Half a Century (1892-1942)' by Gerhard R. Lomer (1942); - Pamphlet entitled, 'The Wilton Diptych Probably French School of late 14th Century' and published by the Trustees of the National Gallery (c 1957); - Envelope containing several publications, including 'The Lisbonian' Vol. XIII No. 5 and No. 6 (1925), and 'The Heston, Hounslow, and Isleworth Citizen' No. 31, No. 33 and No. 36 (1926-1927); - Copy of 'The Buckfast Chronicle', 35 (1966); - Copies of 'The Tablet' (1921-1940); - Copies of 'Catholic News' (1920-1932); - Copy of the 'Catholic Gazette' (1934); - Journal entitled 'Bird Notes & News The Journal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' (1932); - Two 1942 issues (Vol XI. No. 2 and Vol XI. No. 3) of 'The Swadlincote Bulletin'; - Annual report of the Catholic Records Society (1968); - Pamphlet entitled, 'Over Thirty Years' Work of the Catholic Record Society', by Dr Alphonsus Bonnar, O.F.M., D.D (1935); - 'Westminster Cathedral Chronicle' (1930 and 1962); - 'The Beda Review', 5, 1 (1943); - Article entitled 'The Launceston Pilgrimage in Honour of Blessed Cuthbert Mayne' (1956); - 'PAX': the Quarterly Review of the Benedictines of Prinknash', 47, 282 (1957); - Article entitled, 'The Smallest State in the World: Vatican City on Its 108 Acres, Is a Complete Sovereignty Internationally Recognized', by W. Coleman Nevils, S.J., D.D., PH.D., published in 'The National Geographic Magazine' [1939]; - Exhibition catalogue entitled, 'An Exhibition on Commemoration of the Cannonization of Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher Including Works of Robert Southwell and the Oxford Recusants (1535-1660)', published by Bodleian Library, Oxford (1935); - Pamphlet entitled, 'The Church of St Blaise, Haccombe' [may have been kept at Syon due to the church's relation to the Carew family, who once owned Marley House]; - Annual report of Lambeth Palace Library (1989); - Offprint of an article entitled, 'An Old Lancashire Mission: being a brief history of the Church of Our Ladye of the Well at Fernyhalgh, near Preston', by Rev. Daniel O'Hare (1892) [inscription inside 'With love to Syon from Ladywell 3/8/68']; - 'Henry VI Society Newsletter', 2 (1973). |