Event Calendar

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Exhibition Curator’s Talk: Reformation Cardinal

Born in 1500 into the highest circles of the English aristocracy and then lifted as high in the Church, Reginald Pole’s life was spent steering a perilous course through the storm of the European Reformation. After a brilliant scholarly career in Italy, he chose refuge there from Henry VIII’s regime and its anti-papal policies. His […]

Free

IHR: Reformation and revenge in Tudor London

Institute of Historical Research Seminar Using the rich seam of local records (detailed churchwardens’ accounts, vestry minutes and surviving wills), this paper tells the tale of religious divisions in the London suburban parish of St Botolph’s Aldgate. The changes to parish worship and finance during the reign of Edward VI were almost entirely reversed during […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

We would like to welcome you on a guided tour of Lambeth Palace Library! The tour will include a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! There is also a chance to see our current exhibition, 'Church Festivals', on the mezzanine. Please be aware that […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

We would like to welcome you on a guided tour of Lambeth Palace Library! The tour will include a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! There is also a chance to see our current exhibition, 'Church Festivals', on the mezzanine. Please be aware that […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

We would like to welcome you on a guided tour of Lambeth Palace Library! The tour will include a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! There is also a chance to see our current exhibition, 'Church Festivals', on the mezzanine. Please be aware that […]

Free

Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Michael Questier (Durham University): Rome and the Anglicans – and their Histories of the Reformation Histories of the post-Reformation Church of (and in) England are, as is well known, often incompatible with each other. Much of the relevant scholarly output of recent times has been taken up with trying to resolve existing contradictory interpretations of […]

Free

Charlie Rozier (UEA): Depicting Historical time in Anglo-Norman Manuscripts

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

This talk will attempt to answer a single, fundamental question: how does a medieval scribe draw time? Specifically, it aims to consider how decisions regarding the placement of historical text on the pages of the codex were effective in communicating the passage of historical time to their readers, according to the purposes of the text. […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

On the day of Lambeth Palace's May Garden Open Day, Lambeth Palace Library will be running guided tours of the Library, including a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! Tickets can be booked ahead of time, with limited tickets also available on the day […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Library, including a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! Tickets can be booked ahead of time, with limited tickets also available on the day of the event. Book your tickets via Eventbrite. This is not a ticket for the Garden Open Day, you will […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

On the day of Lambeth Palace’s May Garden Open Day, Lambeth Palace Library will be running guided tours of the Library, including a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! Tickets can be booked ahead of time, with limited tickets also available on the day […]

Free

Andrew Foster (University of Kent & Lincoln College, Oxford): ‘The Restoration and Revival of Chichester Cathedral Library, 1670-1735’

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

For the redoubtable Dr Mary Hobbs, the return of Bishop Henry King’s Library marked the rebirth of Chichester Cathedral Library post 1671, yet close analysis of The Old Catalogue before 1735 reveals other stories of benefactors and books in what was quite a renaissance for cathedral, city, and the surrounding region at the end of the seventeenth […]

Free

Lambeth Palace Garden Open Day

We are excited to welcome you to Lambeth Palace Library and Lambeth Palace Gardens for a very special garden open day, hosted by the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library who support the Library in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in the conservation of collections for future generations. Join us for food, refreshments […]

£5