| Description | Contents Papers of Edward Towers, including correspondence with his family and his friend, Rev Edward Stephens, written during vocational training at the English College in Rome and as a member of staff at Ushaw College (with typescript transcripts of some of the Rome letters); Ushaw papers, including notebooks, sermons, lectures, and research papers on Ushaw College history; historical material relating to both Ushaw College and the English College at Douai; and personal papers. The papers cover a wide range of subjects including religious and other aspects of life in Rome and its surrounding villages at the beginning of the twentieth century; vocational training at the Venerable English College in Rome; financial administration and teaching at Ushaw College; the production of the Ushaw Magazine; the effect of the two world wars on the administration of Ushaw; the threat posed to Ushaw and the Catholic Church generally by modernism; and Catholic life in Lancashire during the Second World War and the post-war period. |
| Admin_History | About the creator Edward Towers was born in 1880. He was educated at Ushaw College and ordained at the English College in Rome in 1906. After receiving a double doctorate in philosophy (1903) and theology (1907), he was appointed to teach these subjects at Ushaw College. During the Second World War, Edward took on the role of procurator and, later, became spiritual director of the college. He was made an honorary canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle, in 1951. He died at Ushaw in 1953. |