Event Calendar
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Lecture
Dr Harry Spillane (University of Cambridge): ‘The Bishops’ Bible, Archbishop Matthew Parker, and the Elizabethan Church’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe 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 […]
British Records Association 2023 Maurice Bond Lecture and Harley Prize Presentation
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe 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, […]
Peter Lake (Vanderbilt): ‘On Laudianism’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonPeter 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 […]
Church of England Records Society AGM and lecture
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe 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 […]
Canon Daffern: ‘Rubrics for Royalty: The story of the Coronation Service in 2023’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonCanon 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 […]
Fit for a King: The Symbolism of a Coronation
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonDanny 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 […]
Richard Palmer: ‘This august tribunal’ – The Court of Arches: sex, money and the church in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThis talk is about the Court of Arches, the ancient appeal court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its rich archive in Lambeth Palace Library. It outlines court procedure and the tangled lives of those who came before it, caught up in disputes about inheritance, marriage, divorce, morals, slander, church buildings, pews, rates and tithes. […]
From Inspiration to Illumination, an Introduction to The Saint John’s Bible
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonIn Tim Terne's lecture guests will learn about the processes, tools, methods and materials behind the making of The Saint John’s Bible, as well as explore several artworks through guided imagery discussions. Participants also get to handle vellum samples and a quill and see large reproductions of The Saint John’s Bible after the presentation. About […]
From Inspiration to Illumination, an Introduction to The Saint John’s Bible
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonIn Tim Terne's lecture guests will learn about the processes, tools, methods and materials behind the making of The Saint John’s Bible, as well as explore several artworks through guided imagery discussions. Participants also get to handle vellum samples and a quill and see large reproductions of The Saint John’s Bible after the presentation. About […]
Charlie Rozier (UEA): Depicting Historical time in Anglo-Norman Manuscripts
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThis talk will attempt to answer a single, fundamental question: how does a medieval scribe draw time? Specifically, it aims to consider how decisions regarding the placement of historical text on the pages of the codex were effective in communicating the passage of historical time to their readers, according to the purposes of the text. […]
Andrew Foster (University of Kent & Lincoln College, Oxford): ‘The Restoration and Revival of Chichester Cathedral Library, 1670-1735’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonFor the redoubtable Dr Mary Hobbs, the return of Bishop Henry King’s Library marked the rebirth of Chichester Cathedral Library post 1671, yet close analysis of The Old Catalogue before 1735 reveals other stories of benefactors and books in what was quite a renaissance for cathedral, city, and the surrounding region at the end of the seventeenth […]
Helen Smith (University of York): Voices in Ink: Early Modern Women and Print
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, […]
