Event Calendar
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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 […]
Curator’s Forum: Julia King (Lambeth Palace Library) and Eleanor Jackson (British Library)
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe 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, […]
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 […]
Introduction to Archive Day at Lambeth Palace Library
Join us for a unique opportunity to explore the world of archives, libraries, and conservation at Lambeth Palace Library. This event offers the chance to meet our dedicated team of archivists, librarians, and conservators, who will provide insight into their fascinating work preserving historic collections. Attendees will learn about the vital roles within the library, […]
Megan McNamee: Light and Labour in Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs
Light and labour were linked by custom and law in the Middle Ages, when, for example, statutes dictated that agricultural workers were to leave their tasks while there was sufficient light to make their way home. We see the connection in medieval calendars. The average hours of daylight and darkness for each month were often recorded on […]
Anne Lawrence – Mathers: Prediction, Prognostication – or Divination? The Medieval Calendar as a guide to the Future.
Anyone who listens to news broadcasts will be familiar with modern forms of forecasting and predicting. These range from the scientific, like weather forecasts, to the more contentious, like predictions concerning the future state of the economy. Medieval people also had ways of making ‘scientific’ predictions, many of which were rooted in beliefs about time, […]
Arnold Hunt (University of Durham): The Forgotten Laudian? Richard Steward and the origins of Anglican high churchmanship
Richard Steward (1595-1651) played a key role in the promotion of Laudianism in the 1630s and the formation of Anglican royalism in the 1640s. During the Uxbridge negotiations in 1645, he exerted a decisive influence in persuading the king not to compromise on episcopacy, and after Charles’s execution in 1649 he continued to play an […]
