A few years ago, a group of nuns researching the history of their convent in Calcutta travelled to Birmingham to visit the Cadbury Research Library (CRL) – the only place in the world that could provide them with the information they sought.
They wanted to know how far the boundaries of their religious community had extended over the years – and the answers lay among the historic rare books, manuscripts and archives held by the CRL in the collections of the Church Missionary Society, dating back to the 1700s.
