Event Calendar

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Michael Questier (Durham University): Rome and the Anglicans – and their Histories of the Reformation Histories of the post-Reformation Church of (and in) England are, as is well known, often incompatible with each other. Much of the relevant scholarly output of recent times has been taken up with trying to resolve existing contradictory interpretations of […]

Free

Charlie Rozier (UEA): Depicting Historical time in Anglo-Norman Manuscripts

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

This talk will attempt to answer a single, fundamental question: how does a medieval scribe draw time? Specifically, it aims to consider how decisions regarding the placement of historical text on the pages of the codex were effective in communicating the passage of historical time to their readers, according to the purposes of the text. […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

On the day of Lambeth Palace's May 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 […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

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 of the event. Book your tickets via Eventbrite. This is not a ticket for the Garden Open Day, you will […]

Free

Guided Tour of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

On the day of Lambeth Palace’s May 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 […]

Free

Andrew Foster (University of Kent & Lincoln College, Oxford): ‘The Restoration and Revival of Chichester Cathedral Library, 1670-1735’

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

For the redoubtable Dr Mary Hobbs, the return of Bishop Henry King’s Library marked the rebirth of Chichester Cathedral Library post 1671, yet close analysis of The Old Catalogue before 1735 reveals other stories of benefactors and books in what was quite a renaissance for cathedral, city, and the surrounding region at the end of the seventeenth […]

Free

Lambeth Palace Garden Open Day

We are excited to welcome you to Lambeth Palace Library and Lambeth Palace Gardens for a very special garden open day, hosted by the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library who support the Library in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in the conservation of collections for future generations. Join us for food, refreshments […]

£5

Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Project Updates on Early Modern Religious History We are delighted to host a joint meeting of The Friends of Lambeth Palace Library and the Religious History of Britain seminar. There will be a trio of speakers giving brief reports on projects currently in progress: Edward Simonds and Kristyna Spencer (Lambeth) on investigating the Sion College […]

Free

Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library

On 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 […]

Free

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 […]

Free

 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 […]

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