Mark Purcell is Deputy Director for Research Collections at Cambridge University Library, and Bye-Fellow at Pembroke College. A specialist on the history of libraries, he is also interested in historic organs, and is a former Oxford and cathedral organ scholar.

The great organ at the Grote Kerk, Alkmaar, dating to 1645 and housed in a case designed by Jacob van Campen.

In praise of organs

Historic organs are appreciated as heritage assets in continental Europe – but in the UK they deserve better protection

21 Aug 2020