Event Calendar
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London Open House 2022
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonOwing to the sad news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen, Lambeth Palace Library will be closed to readers and to visitors until further notice. We apologise for […]
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 […]
Professor Nicholas Tyacke (University College, London): The Death of William III (1702) and the ‘Secularization Thesis’.
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThis paper will examine changing ideas of the sacred and the secular as evinced by the responses in print to the death of William III. In association with the University […]
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 […]
Professor James Walvin (University of York): ‘The Black Presence in Transatlantic Slavery Archives’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London*Please note change of speaker* The distinguished social historian James Walvin, author of many books on slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world, will discuss ‘The Black Presence in […]
Joanna Story, University of Leicester: ‘Insular Manuscripts – some new approaches to some old questions.’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonMore than 600 manuscripts survive that were written between c. 600–850 in the Irish or Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, or in continental monasteries founded by missionaries from the islands of Britain or […]
Desirée Baptiste: Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave, Written by Herself (2023), staged reading.
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonA new play inspired by a rare 1723 letter from an anonymous enslaved Virginian to the ‘Lord arch Bishop of London’, Incidents (2023) draws on archival research and historical imagination […]
