Welcome to the Home Page of Oxford's G.K. Chesterton Library, a study centre created by Mr Aidan Mackey, previously maintained by the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University, NJ, and now by the Trustees of the Library with the support of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, NH. Senior Fellows of the Library are Mr Aidan Mackey, Revd Ian Boyd CSB, and Mr Dale Ahlquist. The collection is currently being catalogued and preserved ready for installation some time in 2013 at the new library building being erected by the Oxford Oratory at 25 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HA. At present the collection itself may only be viewed by special arrangement with the Trustees (example).

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Gilbert Chesterton was a popular man of letters, a journalist, a poet, an artist, a traveller, a novelist, a philosopher. But he died in 1936. Why is he still so important... perhaps increasingly so?

He was one of the best – and most amusing – writers and thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the strongest defender of the ideas on which Western civilization is founded. (See "Larger than Life".)

What is more, the quality of clarity and joy which we find in almost every page of Chesterton’s writing, intangible though it may be in terms of a practical impact on society, is a most precious legacy: the secret of lasting happiness, the responsibility of freedom, and the joyful duty of thanksgiving and praise.

The Chesterton Library is dedicated to maintaining a study centre through which interest in GKC will be encouraged and scholarship promoted. More and more books are being written about this gentle English giant (most recently the magisterial Oxford University Press biography by Revd Ian Ker), and you can read more about him by following the links on the right. As for why dandelions...