Marking Time Across Cultures

Alongside the Unfolding Time exhibition, Lambeth Palace Library invites visitors to reflect on the different methods and objects used to mark time in their own communities, classrooms, and households.

Do you have an object or image you associate with keeping track of time? Then take a photo and submit it using this online form, and the image will appear in our online gallery. 

Click on an image to see a larger version. Close the window to return to the gallery.

Wells Cathedral Clock
Wells Cathedral Clock
Death sitting on a globe with a hourglass between his feet
Death with an hourglass
Zodiac from a manuscript atlas
Zodiac from a manuscript atlas
Calendar from the Hours of Richard III
Calendar from the Hours of Richard III with his birthday marked.
Volvelle from a medieval almanac
Volvelle from a medieval almanac

Gallery submission form

Please use this form to upload your own images. For privacy reasons, avoid including yourself or others in the photograph. Each person may submit up to five images.

    Disclaimer: All submissions will be reviewed for appropriateness before being uploaded. This review is solely to ensure the images meet our standards and does not reflect any judgment of the content.

    By submitting an image, you agree to share it under an open license (CC BY 4.0). Unless requested otherwise, images will remain on this website for a minimum of five years. However, they may be removed at any time without notice. To request removal, please email archives@churchofengland.org with the subject line "Marking Time image."