Event Calendar

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Cantate Domino: Exhibition Concert

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Exhibition concert for Cantate Domino: Music in the Lambeth Palace Library Collections, with private view and glass of wine. This hour-long concert of music featured in our exhibition Cantate Domino will include selections from the Arundel Choirbook and Archbishop Parker’s Psalms. It will include a private view of the exhibition and a glass of wine […]

Richard Palmer: ‘This august tribunal’ – The Court of Arches: sex, money and the church in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

This talk is about the Court of Arches, the ancient appeal court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its rich archive in Lambeth Palace Library. It outlines court procedure and the tangled lives of those who came before it, caught up in disputes about inheritance, marriage, divorce, morals, slander, church buildings, pews, rates and tithes.  […]

Free

Cantate Domino Curator’s Talk

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

A chance to see our current exhibition 'Cantate Domino' and ask questions of the curator, Mary Clayton-Kastenholz. This inaugural exhibition for the Library’s new exhibition room celebrates musical treasures held in Lambeth Palace Library, placing better-known holdings alongside lesser-known volumes and fragments from the collections. The exhibition features the Arundel Choirbook (one of the most […]

Free

Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

On the day of the August Garden Open Day, Lambeth Palace Library will be running two guided tours of the Library, including a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! The tours will be at 13:00 and 14:00. All visitors wishing to join a guided […]

Free

Cantate Domino Curator’s Talk

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

A chance to see our current exhibition ‘Cantate Domino’ and ask questions of the curator, Mary Clayton-Kastenholz. This inaugural exhibition for the Library’s new exhibition room celebrates musical treasures held in Lambeth Palace Library, placing better-known holdings alongside lesser-known volumes and fragments from the collections. The exhibition features the Arundel Choirbook (one of the most […]

Free

Lambeth Palace Library Open House Festival

Open House Festival is coming to Lambeth Palace Library! A day of guided tours of the Library, allowing access to behind the scenes areas of the Library including our state of the art Collections Care studio and the views of London from our 8th floor terrace. Tours are occurring between 10am and 3pm and must […]

Free

CANCELLED: David Skinner on ‘The ‘Arundel’ Choirbook (Lambeth MS 1): a 16th-century journey from West Sussex to Lambeth’

This lecture has been cancelled until further notice, the Exhibition space will still be open to visitors 17:30-19:00 who would like to speak to the curator, Mary Clayton-Kastenholz. Lambeth MS1 is a very rare musical survival from early Tudor England, and is one of only two ecclesiastical choirbooks to have come down to us intact […]

Free

Early Modern semi-public libraries workshop

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

In association with the History of Libraries seminar. This event brings together work on a wide range of early modern private and institutional libraries which were in some way public. Speakers will introduce research on libraries and collectors in England, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany, inviting discussion on topics such as library acquisition, preservation, […]

Free

From Inspiration to Illumination, an Introduction to The Saint John’s Bible

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

In Tim Terne's lecture guests will learn about the processes, tools, methods and materials behind the making of The Saint John’s Bible, as well as explore several artworks through guided imagery discussions. Participants also get to handle vellum samples and a quill and see large reproductions of The Saint John’s Bible after the presentation. About […]

Free

From Inspiration to Illumination, an Introduction to The Saint John’s Bible

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

In Tim Terne's lecture guests will learn about the processes, tools, methods and materials behind the making of The Saint John’s Bible, as well as explore several artworks through guided imagery discussions. Participants also get to handle vellum samples and a quill and see large reproductions of The Saint John’s Bible after the presentation. About […]

Free

Lucy Wooding: Cardinal Pole and the Catholic Reformation

Reginald Pole was many things: royal cousin, humanist scholar, Cardinal, reformer, and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury. His place in the story of England's Reformation has always been contested, in particular with regard to the vilified reign of Mary I. As historical thinking on the Marian Restoration has altered, so too Pole's reputation has […]

Free

Exhibition Curator’s Talk: Reformation Cardinal

Born in 1500 into the highest circles of the English aristocracy and then lifted as high in the Church, Reginald Pole’s life was spent steering a perilous course through the storm of the European Reformation. After a brilliant scholarly career in Italy, he chose refuge there from Henry VIII’s regime and its anti-papal policies. His […]

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