The library hosts one or two exhibitions each year, a chance for everyone to see some of our rare books collections. This is our current exhibition. If you are interested in viewing any objects from exhibitions in person, you can always make an appointment (email librarian@lmh.ox.ac.uk) - we can normally open most weekdays during working hours.
For much of the ancient and medieval world, there was no true distinction between the disciplines of ‘science’ and ‘religion’ as is common now. In Gradually a greater division between the sciences and theology formed in Early Modern Europe during the Scientific Revolution, heralding the Age of Enlightenment.
This exhibition presents items from LMH Library’s antiquarian collection on the themes of science, religion, and the space in-between the two spheres.
Tensions between Christian and scientific values are further thematised in the display on the establishment of Oxford University’s first two women’s colleges: Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College.
LMH Special Collections are open to visitors by appointment (email librarian@lmh.ox.ac.uk) during staffed hours, Monday to Friday, 9.30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Lady Margaret Hall Library
Norham Gardens
OXFORD
OX2 6QA
United Kingdom
Email: librarian@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: (01865) 274361
Jamie Fishwick-Ford
(Librarian, they/them)
Sally Hamer
(Assistant Librarian, she/her)