Event Calendar
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Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
n the day of Lambeth Palace's July 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 […]
Professor James Hendler: Artificial Intelligence and the Archive
Join us for a discussion with Jim Hendler, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and a leading voice in the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and archives. With Pip Willcox, Head of Lambeth Palace Library, he will describe his recent work with generative AI and the archive of Emily Roebling, and the possibilities for AI […]
Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
On the day of Lambeth Palace's August 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 via our Eventbrite, with limited tickets also available […]
Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
On the day of Lambeth Palace's August 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 via our Eventbrite, with limited tickets also available […]
AI in Cultural Heritage: A Series of Talks
Join us for a series of perspectives on AI tools and their uses and applications in cultural institutions in celebration of our new exhibition, 'Building on Cathedrals'. The talks will include speakers such as: Professor Julia Thomas, School of English, Communication and Philosophy (Cardiff University) Dr Isadora Helfgott, Associate Professor of History (University of Wyoming) […]
Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
On the day of Lambeth Palace's September 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 via our Eventbrite page, with limited tickets also […]
Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
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 via our Eventbrite page, with limited tickets also available on the day of the event. This is not […]
Open House Festival 2024
We are delighted to be taking part in the Open House Festival this year. On 14 September, we will be opening our doors with 4 guided tours throughout the day and talk at 4pm by Wright & Wright, the architects who designed our beautiful building. Booking for all these is essential and must be done […]
Helen Smith (University of York): Voices in Ink: Early Modern Women and Print
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonProfessor Helen Smith’s book, Grossly Material Things, and edited collection, Renaissance Paratexts, have shaped debates about the presence of women as actors and agents in the literary marketplace, highlighting women’s involvement in the commissioning, printing, distribution and consumption of printed materials in the early modern period. She also comments on the gendered relations between writing, […]
Philippa Tudor (Lambeth Palace Library): Huguenot records in Lambeth Palace Library: cataloguing complexity
The term refugees was first used to describe the 50,000 Protestants who fled to England from France in the 16th-18th centuries. The miscellany of related records in Lambeth Palace Library sheds light on the experiences of Huguenots in England, as well as attempts to secure the release of those condemned to the French galleys. Philippa […]
Dr Kathleen Kennedy: Archbishops and the Wycliffite Bible
The Wycliffite Bible is famous (or infamous) for being illegal, and leading to the martyrdoms of Lollards for over a hundred years. Why, then, do so many copies exist today? Why are so many of them beautifully illuminated? In this talk, we will discover the answers to these questions. We will even explore how some […]
Julia King: Remember the Scrybeler: Syon Abbey’s Books at Lambeth Palace Library
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonSyon Abbey was England’s first and only Birgittine abbey, founded by Henry V in 1415. By the time of the Dissolution, it had become one of the richest monastic houses in England. The Abbey was a double house of men and women, but the women’s community was far larger and, during its existence, the Abbey […]
