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A unique collection of Baptist and nonconformist history from across the world, including China, India, Jamaica, Africa and the UK. Our collection contains printed texts, manuscripts, photographs, slides and more! https://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/

A group of 7 missionaries in 1897, 5 men and two women, one holding a baby. They are dressed mostly in smart white clothes, standing under a tree and surrounded by vegetation in Bopoto, Congo.
A pencil sketch of a Victorian lady in an armchair by a fire, with her feet on the fender. A pile of books is behind her on a table and a cat sits beside her on the floor. The caption reads 'Kitty, take these three books to the Library, get Mr Brown to change them - tell him I am fond of the Romatic' (From Seymour's Sketches)
A camel with a saddle and harness is tethered in a yard, in front of a white building with decorative arches.
The front page of an old, browned pamphlet from 1589. The text reads ' Pappe with an hatchet. : Alias, a figge for my God sonne. Or cracke me this nut. Or a countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning. VVritten by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to preuent Martins dog daies Imprinted by Iohn Anoke, and Iohn Astile, for the Bayliue of Withernam, cum priuilegio perennitatis, and are to bee sold at the signe of the crab tree cudgell in Thwack-Coate Lane'
A Victorian era print of a fashionably dressed lady. She wears a yellow silk dress with subtle details and white lace cuffs and collar with a red rose in the centre. She also has two large gold necklaces and dangling golden earrings, with red and white roses in her elaborate hairstyle.
A variety of fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden steps, including a large bunch of bananas, squash and pineapples.
A black and white print from 1705 of a sheep with curled horns and a long fat tail, that it is pulling behind it in a small two wheeled cart. Text on the image reads 'An Eastern Sheet drawing his fatt tayle in a Cart weighing 40 pound weight or more'.
The interior of a chapel in Bhiwani, India. White walls with arches are decorated with hand written signs and long swags of tinsel. An altar is decorated with two vases of leaves and flowers.
A print from 1820 of a Laplander family, a small child and two parents, in traditional dress. There is a tent made from furs in the background. The father sits in a wooden sled pulled by a reindeer in a decorated harness. A second reindeer stands behind. Behind the scene is a backdrop of snowy mountains with a few fir trees.