Event Calendar
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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 […]
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 to bring […]
Dr Harry Spillane (University of Cambridge): ‘The Bishops’ Bible, Archbishop Matthew Parker, and the Elizabethan Church’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe Bishops’ Bible, which was first printed in 1568, has frequently been cast as a useless and widely unpopular translation of the Bible into English. However, by exploring what the […]
British Records Association 2023 Maurice Bond Lecture and Harley Prize Presentation
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe 2023 Maurice Bond lecture will be given by Dr Andrew Flinn of the Department of Information Studies, University College London. The lecture will explore the work of community archivists […]
Garden Open Day
Lambeth Palace Lambeth Palace Road, LondonJoin us for a family fun day in the beautiful historic grounds of Lambeth Palace, celebrating the new Coronation exhibition! We are excited to welcome you to Lambeth Palace Library […]
Peter Lake (Vanderbilt): ‘On Laudianism’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonPeter Lake, Professor of History at Vanderbilt, is one of the most distinguished writers on English religion after the Reformation. Later this year Cambridge University Press will publish Peter's latest […]
Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, followed by the Friends’ annual lecture by Professor Magnus Williamson (Newcastle University): ‘Singing to the Lord in Tudor England: Musical Ventures, Dynastic Misadventures’.
This event is limited to Friends of Lambeth Palace Library and their guests. To book a place, please email libraryfriends@churchofengland.org or telephone 020 7898 1400.
