Event Calendar
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Lecture
Right in front of our eyes: viewing the English Reformation afresh
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonSpeaker: Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch In this illustrated talk, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church in the University of Oxford, looks at the church buildings and the history of the Church of England, […]
Hidden Hands: the human stories hidden in our oldest books
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonSpeaker: Dr Mary Wellesley Dr Mary Wellesley is a writer and historian, who teaches courses on medieval language and literature as part of the British Library’s adult learning programme. Her book, Hidden […]
Bishop Symon Patrick (1626-1707) – unsung hero of the Restoration Church of England
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonSpeaker: Dr Nicholas Fisher In 2018, Nick Fisher was the first recipient of a Lambeth doctorate after the scheme had been rebranded ‘Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology’. His thesis explored the life […]
Friends’ Annual Lecture & Annual General Meeting
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonLecture: In the Shadow of Death: The Life, Work and Trials of Archbishop Tait Speaker: Revd John WitheridgeThe lecture is at 2.30pm. The AGM is at 3.30pm and is followed by tea. Archibald Campbell Tait was […]
‘Lived religion’ in eighteenth-century England: the education of poor children
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe Church of England Record Society Annual Lecture 2022 Speaker: W.M. Jacob Drawing on the insights of ‘lived religion’ this paper investigates evidence from a wide range of eighteenth century […]
Breakspear: the unknown English pope
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonSpeaker: Adrian Waddingham Nicholas Breakspear has been overlooked for centuries, even though his achievements outshone those of his contemporary, Thomas Becket. Born in poverty and probably illegitimate, Breakspear rose to […]
Dr Andrew Smith (University of Liverpool): Responding to Historic Organisation Misconduct Accusations: the Campaign for Corporate Reparations for Black Slavery
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonAbout thirty UK and US firms have been accused by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists of having profited from black slavery before its abolition in the British Empire and the […]
Dr John Maddicott (University of Oxford): ‘John Prideaux (1578-1650): A Scholar at Large’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonJohn Prideaux was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1615 to 1642, a highly successful head of his Oxford college, bishop of Worcester during the Civil War, and one […]
Dr Christopher de Hamel (University of Cambridge): The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscript Club
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission […]
Professor Catherine Hall (UCL): ‘Making White and Black: Edward Long slave-owner and historian of Jamaica’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThis talk will introduce Edward Long, whose History of Jamaica published in 1774 (and in print ever since) aimed to convince a metropolitan audience that slavery was essential to the […]
Dr Helen Paul (University of Southampton): ‘The South Sea Company and Enslavement’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe South Sea Company is famous for giving its name to an early financial crash, the South Sea Bubble of 1720. This event has overshadowed the company’s involvement in Britain’s […]
Professor Raluca Radulescu (Bangor University): ‘What do we need to know about the Prose Brut tradition and why? A medieval best-seller and modern scholarly silence’
This talk will focus on the appeal of the Prose Brut tradition in the Middle Ages with a view to examining the relationship between the large number of manuscripts it […]
