Event Calendar

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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 […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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) […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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 […]

Free

Helen Smith (University of York): Voices in Ink: Early Modern Women and Print

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Professor 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, […]

Free

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 […]

Free

Julia King: Remember the Scrybeler: Syon Abbey’s Books at Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Syon 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 […]

Free

Curator’s Forum: Julia King (Lambeth Palace Library) and Eleanor Jackson (British Library)

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

The lead curators on the exhibitions ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books (Lambeth Palace Library) and ‘Medieval Women: in their Own Words’ will come together for a Q&A session on the joys and challenges of curating exhibitions on women’s book and literary history in library settings. They will discuss processes such as selection, […]

Free

The Restoration and Revival of Chichester Cathedral Library, 1670–1735

Join us for this guest lecture by Andrew Foster held in partnership with the the Institute of Historical Research, given at Lambeth and open to all. For the redoubtable Dr Mary Hobbs (1923–1998), the return of Bishop Henry King’s Library marked the rebirth of Chichester Cathedral Library post 1671; yet close analysis of The Old […]

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