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All Souls College Library, known until 2020 as the Codrington Library, is an academic library in the city of Oxford, England. It is the library of All Souls College, a graduate constituent college of the University of Oxford.
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All Souls College has refused to take down the statue of slave owner Christopher Codrington. Despite not removing the statue, the college has confirmed that the library in which it sits will no longer be called 'the Codrington Library'. Christopher Codrington was a Barbados-born colonial governor who attended Christ Church College in 1685.
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Despite All Souls being founded in the aftermath of the Hundred Years' War in 1438, the Codrington Library in its current form was only completed in 1751, when Christopher Codrington (a Christ Church man) bequeathed his collection of books and a legacy of ยฃ10,000 on the college; the fortune, unfortunately, had its origins in the slave trade.
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The most prestigious example of how slavery shaped Oxford is the Codrington Library at All Souls College, one of the most beautiful buildings in the university. Named after Christopher.
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The Codrington Library of Oxford University was completed in 1751 and has been used by scholars ever since. In the late 1990s, the building underwent a massive renovation in order to provide better protection for the books and to make the library more user friendly with better wiring and some new electronic work stations.
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Oxford University's All Souls College has dropped the name Christopher Codrington from its library, but has refused to remove its controversial statue of the Barbados-born slave owner, sparking.
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Codrington Library, All Soul's College, Oxford, 1751.. In the Codrington Library in Oxford the windows are down one side and placed high above the bookcases. The result is a library of.
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Oxford, England Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge. Been Here? 114 Want to Visit? 543 Codrington inside his library.
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In 2020, the library announced that it was no longer going to call it 'The Codrington Library, ' acknowledging that plantations worked by enslaved people were the source of revenue for the library. The beautiful architecture and incredible selection of books make this library a must-visit on your trip around Oxford libraries.
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20th November 2020 All Souls College's Governing Body has announced that they will no longer call their college library 'the Codrington Library', acknowledging that plantations worked by enslaved people were the source of revenue for Codrington's donation. A new name for the library has not been specified.
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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 .
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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.
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The All Souls College Library (formerly known as the Codrington Library) was founded through a 1710 bequest from Christopher Codrington (1668-1710), a fellow of the college and a wealthy slave and sugar plantation owner. Codrington was an undergraduate at Oxford and later became colonial governor of the Leeward Islands.
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Christopher Codrington, a former Fellow of All Souls, died in 1710, leaving a bequest of ยฃ10,000 to the College for building a new library and stocking it with books; this new library became generally known as the Codrington Library, although that name was never formally adopted by the Statutes of the College.
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At a meeting of its Governing Body in November 2020, All Souls College decided to cease to refer to the College Library as 'the Codrington Library'. The College also decided that the statue of Codrington which stands at the centre of the Library will remain there.
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Despite All Souls being founded in aftermath of the Hundred Years' War in 1438, the Codrington Library in its current form was only completed in 1751, when Christopher Codrington, (a Christ Church man), bequeathed his collection of books (worth ยฃ6000 in that time), and a legacy of ยฃ10,000 on the college, a fortune that unfortunately had its orig.
