Over the Wall

Untold Riches
60 years of gifts from the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library

This online exhibition was a celebration of the contribution that the Friends have made to the Library over the last 60 years. We hope that it gives an idea of the richness and scale of the acquisitions that the Friends have helped the Library make.

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Women and the Church of England
200 years of women’s ministry and agency

This exhibition marked the 30^th anniversary of the ordination of 1200 women to the priesthood in the Church of England, the 80^th anniversary of the priesting of Florence Li Tim-Oi, and the 10th anniversary of the legislation passing which allows women to be consecrated as bishops in the Church of England.

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Reformation Cardinal
Reginald Pole in sixteenth-century Italy and England

This exhibition explored the life of Cardinal Reginald Pole in Italy and in England and gathered books from Oxford, London, and Rome to tell his story.

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Moral & Material Decay
Four centuries of the Court of Arches

Moral & Material Decay invited you to peer into the courtroom of the Province of Canterbury’s most senior ecclesiastical court. This exhibition explored some of the themes that dominated the court and illuminated social relations and practices over four hundred years.

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Cantate Domino
Music in the Lambeth Palace Library Collections

The exhibition featured the Arundel Choirbook, Sion College’s illuminated York Breviary, and sermon notes pertinent to the composition of the hymn “Amazing Grace”, celebrating its 250th. These were displayed alongside other examples of music in the Library’s collections.

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‘A Declaration of our hopes for the future’
Coronations from the middle ages to the present day

To mark the coronation of King Charles III, Lambeth Palace and Lambeth Palace Library collections brought you an exhibition of materials relating to previous coronations from that of Henry I in 1100 to that of our new sovereign.

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Enslavement: Voices from the Archives

The exhibition accompanied the Church Commissioners’ public report on historic links between Queen Anne’s Bounty (one of the Church Commissioners’ predecessors) and transatlantic chattel slavery.

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Collecting During Covid

This exhibition highlighted the Library’s acquisitions. Recent arrivals build on the Library’s strengths in the fields of devotional literature, topographical writings and the evolution of religious libraries. The acquisitions range from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, many purchased with the assistance of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library.

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Layers of Lambeth: A look at the collections

This exhibition drew on the Library’s rich holdings of prints, maps and plans to give an insight into how Lambeth has changed from the 17th to the 19th century. Following Lambeth’s rural to urban transformation, this provides an interesting contrast in presenting the post-war ‘village concept’ in modern London.

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From Popish Plot to Civil Rights

This exhibition highlighted a range of subjects covered by the Library’s diverse collections of religious archives.

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Treasures from the Collections II

This exhibition highlighted treasures from the Lambeth Palace Library collection.

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Treasures from the Collections I

This exhibition highlighted treasures from the Lambeth Palace Library collection.

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