Event Calendar
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Dr Kathleen Kennedy: Archbishops and the Wycliffite Bible
The Wycliffite Bible is famous (or infamous) for being illegal, and leading to the martyrdoms of Lollards for over a hundred years. Why, then, do so many copies exist today? Why are so many of them beautifully illuminated? In this talk, we will discover the answers to these questions. We will even explore how some […]
Julia King: Remember the Scrybeler: Syon Abbey’s Books at Lambeth Palace Library
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonSyon Abbey was England’s first and only Birgittine abbey, founded by Henry V in 1415. By the time of the Dissolution, it had become one of the richest monastic houses in England. The Abbey was a double house of men and women, but the women’s community was far larger and, during its existence, the Abbey […]
Curator’s Forum: Julia King (Lambeth Palace Library) and Eleanor Jackson (British Library)
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe lead curators on the exhibitions ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books (Lambeth Palace Library) and ‘Medieval Women: in their Own Words’ will come together for a Q&A session on the joys and challenges of curating exhibitions on women’s book and literary history in library settings. They will discuss processes such as selection, […]
The Restoration and Revival of Chichester Cathedral Library, 1670–1735
Join us for this guest lecture by Andrew Foster held in partnership with the the Institute of Historical Research, given at Lambeth and open to all. For the redoubtable Dr Mary Hobbs (1923–1998), the return of Bishop Henry King’s Library marked the rebirth of Chichester Cathedral Library post 1671; yet close analysis of The Old […]
