Event Calendar

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Desirée Baptiste: Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave, Written by Herself  (2023), staged reading.

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

A 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 to light, 300 years after a bold act of resistance, the life of a ‘poore’ parishioner of the Church of England, author of […]

Free

Desirée Baptiste: Incidents in the Life of an Anglican Slave, Written by Herself  (2023), staged reading.

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

A 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 to light, 300 years after a bold act of resistance, the life of a ‘poore’ parishioner of the Church of England, author of one of […]

Free

Dr Harry Spillane (University of Cambridge): ‘The Bishops’ Bible, Archbishop Matthew Parker, and the Elizabethan Church’

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

The 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 intended purposes of the Bishops’ Bible were, and by paying attention to the wealth of images, prefaces, maps, diagrams and heraldic devices within it, a […]

Free

British Records Association 2023 Maurice Bond Lecture and Harley Prize Presentation

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

The 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 in identifying, preserving and making accessible community generated archives and heritage material. Employing Sven Lindqvist's Dig Where You Stand (1978 & 2023) metaphor and method, […]

Free

Garden Open Day

Lambeth Palace Lambeth Palace Road, London

Join 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 and Lambeth Palace Gardens for a very special garden open day, celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III and the opening of the new Coronation […]

Free

Peter Lake (Vanderbilt): ‘On Laudianism’

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Peter 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 book, Piety, polemic and politics during the personal rule of Charles I. The central argument is that ecclesiastical politics under Charles I and Archbishop Laud […]

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Church of England Records Society AGM and lecture

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

The Church of England Record Society AGM will start at 4pm, followed by a lecture at 5pm by Canon Professor Michael Snape who is Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at the University of Durham will speak on 'The Trials of the “Glorious Glosters”: Chaplaincy, the Church of England and the Korean War’. Those wishing […]

Free

Canon Daffern: ‘Rubrics for Royalty: The story of the Coronation Service in 2023’

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Canon Adrian Daffern was commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury to be the principal author of the revised Coronation service used for HM the King on May 6 this year. In this lecture Adrian will give put the newly revised service in its historical context, referring to many of the unique items held in Lambeth […]

Free

Fit for a King: The Symbolism of a Coronation

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Danny Johnson was appointed The Archbishop’s Coronation Planning Director in October 2022, working closely with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Westminster Abbey, The Royal Household, and a host of others on every detail of the Coronation Service. In this talk Danny discusses his journey exploring the iconography of past Coronation Services, their symbolism and what their […]

Free

Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

On the day of our July garden open day, Lambeth Palace Library will be running three 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 12:30, 13:30 and 14:30. All visitors wishing to join a […]

Free

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 […]