Events

Join us for a unique opportunity to: This is a chance to connect with history, reflect on the Church of England’s Black History, and see how the past is preserved for future generations. Photographs and/or filming will be taken at this event to be used for publicity purposes. By registering to attend this event, you […]

Join us online for an opportunity to: This is a chance to connect with history, reflect on the Church of England’s Black History, and see how the past is preserved for future generations. This is an online only event. To join, please register here via Microsoft Teams.

Professor Alan Ford (University of Nottingham):Making Ireland Protestant: the campaign to enforce religious uniformity in Ireland, 1603-1633 Modern Ireland had—indeed, still has—a habit of testing the policies of English governments to destruction. This was particularly the case in matters of religion. In England, anti-recusancy legislation, though always delicately balanced between the sweeping rhetoric of its […]

Institute of Historical Research Seminar on the Religious History of Britain 1500-1800 Peterhouse chapel was conceived and built as a showcase for 'Laudian' piety. A style-icon for church ceremonialists during the 1630s, it was, by the same reckoning, an abomination to the self-styled 'godly'. Because the chapel was widely acknowledged as a centrepiece for the […]

Why is the archbishop of Canterbury called the ‘primate of all England’? While the title comes from the position’s rank as the first (primas) bishop of the English church, there is in fact a long and intriguing history behind the notion of the primate bishop. Dr Edward Roberts (University of Kent) traces the medieval origins […]

Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Lambeth Palace Library building, including visits to the Collections Care Studio and the 8th floor terrace for amazing views. The tour will explain the history of the library, its collections, and their journey to a brand new, purpose-built home. Tour timings will be 10:00 and […]

Join us for a unique opportunity to: This is a chance to connect with history, reflect on the Church of England’s Black History, and see how the past is preserved for future generations. Photographs and/or filming will be taken at this event to be used for publicity purposes. By registering to attend this event, you […]

In this talk, Cressida Williams, Archives and Library Manager at Canterbury Cathedral, will give an account of enthronements or installations of the Archbishop of Canterbury from medieval to modern times. The talk will be illustrated with images from the historic collections of the Cathedral, and from other collections. She will also give an account of […]

Join us for weekly tours of the garden, 10:45 - 11:00 every Wednesday from 10 June until 22 July 2026. Tours will start and conclude at the Lambeth Palace Library, where access to the 'Over the Wall' garden exhibition is free. Tours will last around 45 minutes and will include the wildlife garden, the rose […]

Institute of Historical Research Seminar The tragicomedy Measure for Measure, which dramatizes the consequences of a clampdown on social immorality in Vienna, has long been recognised as indirectly commenting on the puritanism of Shakespeare's era. This paper argues that the play also speaks to Catholicism's internal reforms, especially through Shakespeare's representation of friars and nuns; […]

Dr Laura Mair presents ‘I hope to make something of him’: Character, care, and control in London's Ragged Schools (1850-1867). The London Ragged School Union (LRSU), which claimed to have taught over 400,000 children by 1884, is a standard fixture of histories of education, evangelicalism, and philanthropy. Evangelical in character, these schools sought to save […]

On 22 August 1485, King Richard III was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, who ascended the throne as Henry VII. Among the spoils seized by Tudor forces was Richard’s personal Book of Hours, Lambeth Palace Library MS 474, which likely came into the possession of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the new King’s […]