Event Calendar
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Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
On the day of Lambeth Palace's August Garden Open Day, Lambeth Palace Library will be running guided tours of the Library, including a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! Tickets can be booked ahead of time via our Eventbrite, with limited tickets also available […]
Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
On the day of Lambeth Palace's August Garden Open Day, Lambeth Palace Library will be running guided tours of the Library, including a chance to visit our Collections Care Studio and our amazing London view from our 8th floor terrace! Tickets can be booked ahead of time via our Eventbrite, with limited tickets also available […]
AI in Cultural Heritage: A Series of Talks
Join us for a series of perspectives on AI tools and their uses and applications in cultural institutions in celebration of our new exhibition, 'Building on Cathedrals'. The talks will include speakers such as: Professor Julia Thomas, School of English, Communication and Philosophy (Cardiff University) Dr Isadora Helfgott, Associate Professor of History (Univeristy of Wyoming) […]
Helen Smith (University of York): Guest lecture on early modern women and printing
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonProfessor Helen Smith’s book, Grossly Material Things, and edited collection, Renaissance Paratexts, have shaped debates about the presence of women as actors and agents in the literary marketplace, highlighting women’s involvement in the commissioning, printing, distribution and consumption of printed materials in the early modern period. She also comments on the gendered relations between writing, […]
Philippa Tudor (Lambeth Palace Library): Huguenot records in Lambeth Palace Library: cataloguing complexity
The term refugees was first used to describe the 50,000 Protestants who fled to England from France in the 16th-18th centuries. The miscellany of related records in Lambeth Palace Library sheds light on the experiences of Huguenots in England, as well as attempts to secure the release of those condemned to the French galleys. Philippa […]
Julia King (Lambeth Palace Library): Curator’s Lecture on Syon Abbey and cultures of women’s reading
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, […]
