Today marks the launch of the second year of The Community of Saint Anselm, a community of prayer, theological reflection and service, based at Lambeth Palace and established by Archbishop […]
One of our most important acquisitions of recent years, the Broughton Missal, has now been digitised and is now online. It is a rare surviving manuscript of the text and music […]
Recession and inflation in the 1970s hastened Sion’s long standing financial problems. In May 1975 Sion decided to sell books again in order to raise capital. This sale was not […]
Although the library’s building survived the bombings of the First World War, it did not emerge unscathed. By the end of the war the College found itself in a position […]
Thomas White, Vicar of St. Dunstan in the West, left provisions in his will for the founding of Sion College and an almshouse in 1624. As his executors, Thomas Wood […]
Dr Richard Palmer reports on further work to re-catalogue the early modern Archbishops’ papers. In recent weeks seven volumes of papers of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury 1758-68, were catalogued […]
One of Lambeth Palace Library’s core roles is as the official archive of the Archbishops of Canterbury, managing the preservation of, and access to, records created by the administration based […]
St Paul’s Church, Bow Common, has recently won an architectural award for best modern church, awarded by the National Churches Trust. Reading this while thinking about a subject for a […]
Lambeth Palace Library staff have catalogued a range of archive material in recent months. Descriptions of this material are now available in the online archives catalogue. They include: Over 1,100 speeches […]
Lambeth Palace Library’s collection of printed books, relating to the history and administration of the Church of England as well as supporting or stemming from the Library’s collection of archives, […]
