Events

Join us for weekly tours of the garden, 10:45 - 11:00 every Wednesday from 10 June until 22 July 2026. Tours will start and conclude at the Lambeth Palace Library, where access to the 'Over the Wall' garden exhibition is free. Tours will last around 45 minutes and will include the wildlife garden, the rose […]

Institute of Historical Research Seminar The tragicomedy Measure for Measure, which dramatizes the consequences of a clampdown on social immorality in Vienna, has long been recognised as indirectly commenting on the puritanism of Shakespeare's era. This paper argues that the play also speaks to Catholicism's internal reforms, especially through Shakespeare's representation of friars and nuns; […]

Dr Laura Mair presents ‘I hope to make something of him’: Character, care, and control in London's Ragged Schools (1850-1867). The London Ragged School Union (LRSU), which claimed to have taught over 400,000 children by 1884, is a standard fixture of histories of education, evangelicalism, and philanthropy. Evangelical in character, these schools sought to save […]

On 22 August 1485, King Richard III was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, who ascended the throne as Henry VII. Among the spoils seized by Tudor forces was Richard’s personal Book of Hours, Lambeth Palace Library MS 474, which likely came into the possession of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the new King’s […]