Event Calendar

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Friends’ Annual Lecture & Annual General Meeting

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Lecture: In the Shadow of Death: The Life, Work and Trials of Archbishop Tait Speaker: Revd John WitheridgeThe lecture is at 2.30pm. The AGM is at 3.30pm and is followed by tea. Archibald Campbell Tait was Queen Victoria’s favourite Archbishop of Canterbury. While not always successful, his leadership of the Church during a period of controversy at home and challenge overseas […]

‘Lived religion’ in eighteenth-century England: the education of poor children

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

The Church of England Record Society Annual Lecture 2022 Speaker: W.M. Jacob Drawing on the insights of ‘lived religion’ this paper investigates evidence from a wide range of eighteenth century archival sources, including diocesan parochial and borough records, to illustrate the religious commitment of Anglican lay people of the ‘middling sort’ in a wide geographical […]

British Records Association 2023 Maurice Bond Lecture and Harley Prize Presentation

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

The 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, […]

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