Information for researchers

Most of the collections held by the college archives are available for consultation by researchers, free of charge, although the opening hours of the college archives are limited. The college archives are open on Mondays and Tuesdays, by appointment only so please contact the Archivist in advance of your visit.

If you are planning on visiting the Archives in person we require one form of photographic identification and one other form of identification. The Archive searchroom is compact, but does have electric power points for laptops. Pencils only are permitted for handwritten notes and there is strictly no eating or drinking in the archives. It is also occassionally possible to make reproductions of archive material.

Below are useful links to Selwyn related material and information about individuals.

Project Canterbury (http://anglicanhistory.org/) is a free online archive of out-of-print Anglican texts and related modern documents which includes copies of material relating to Bishop Selwyn senior and junior, John Coleridge Patteson and other contemporaries. It is arranged in order of region with the former individuals listed under Oceania and Melanesia (http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/).

A biography of the four Selwyn brothers, which is part of the Selwyn Collection, is now available online via Project Canterbury: Memorials of Four Brothers attributed to Laetitia Frances Selwyn (Richmond [London]: Hiscoke and Son, [ca. 1882].

The Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the South Pacific (http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_directory/directory.pdf) includes biographical information on clergy and deaconesses of the Anglican Church in New Zealand, Polynesia, and Melanesia.

Researchers might also find it useful to search JANUS, which provides access to catalogues for archive collections held at many institutions across Cambridge. The National Register of Archives is also a good starting point when undertaking archival research