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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

#BlackHistoryMonth #LambethPalaceLibrary #Archives #BlackBritishHistory

Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

Sources: Lambeth Palace Library, Secker 10 f.149; The Linnean Society of London, ‘Black Lives in the Linnean Society Collections: Amelia Newsham’; Meleisa Ono-George, ‘Amelia Newsham & 18th century Black British histories’, Race and Resistance seminar series, Oxford 24/05/2024

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

Amelia’s story is complex, there is trauma as she experienced treatment as a curiosity but also resilience in how she was later able to choose to live her life. There is more to her life which is being told by Prof Meleisa Ono-George in her forthcoming book, My Name is Amelia Newsham.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

This handbill highlights the intersections of histories, this time Black histories. It is only in the library because it was a convenient scrap for the writer, Henry Rimius, famous for his anti-Moravian views, to draft an unfavourable remark. Rimius’ papers were later given to Archbishop Secker.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

Amelia was later able to take some control over her own life, she got married and had children, and she chose to be baptized in Exeter. Afterwards, considering herself free, Amelia left her enslaver and chose to exhibit herself. Taking what was used against her to make her own money.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

She was studied by ‘men of science’ in an attempt to explain racialised human classifications which placed African people as inferior to European people, and acted as a method to dehumanise people of African ancestry.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

In 1753, Amelia was separated from her parents by her enslaver and brought to England from Jamaica where she was exhibited as a curiosity. The handbill, in its advertising to the public, highlights the particular objectification Amelia experienced from such a young age.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1h

This handbill makes a curiosity out of a young Black girl with the condition that today we call albinism, making her skin white and her hair blonde. We can be fairly confident that this handbill is referring to Amelia Newsham.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 2d

Visit our website to book free tickets and to find out more information - www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/event/lambet...

#LambethPalaceLibrary #OpenDay #Books #Manuscripts #Archive #Library #CareerGrowth #CareerOpportunity

Lambeth Palace Library Careers Open Day – Lambeth Palace Library

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 2d

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition

Picture of the reading room with yellow text over the top, reading Lambeth Palace Library Career Open Day, for ages 16-18 plus undergrads and career changers, 30th October opening times 10am-4pm, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 7d

For #FolkloreThursday here's the legendary King Arthur defeating an armoured giant depicted in the 15th century Chronicle of St Albans.

[LPL MS6, f56v]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #KingArthur #Manuscript

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 8d

Happy October! This woodcut of a cat with a mouse is the printer's device of the Venetian printer Melchior Sessa, and was used by his heirs in this 1598 book of sermons.

(Sion A66.0/OS5)

#RareBooks #SionCollege #Cats #Manuscripts

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 10d

Today the Church of England remembers Jerome (d. 420), translator of the Scriptures, and teacher of the Faith. Here we see Jerome at his writing desk in a detail from a late 13th century Bible.

[MS89 f.1r]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Archives #Manuscript

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 21d

For more on our local history sources, see our research
guide: tinyurl.com/5n8xu54z

To enquire further about our local history sources:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/using-the-li...
enquiry-form/

For more on the 2025 Lambeth Heritage Festival:
www.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-heri...

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 21d

At the start of September, we were thrilled to showcase our services at the Lambeth Local History Fair in Clapham Library. Our collections contain a treasure-trove of local history sources, including plans of Lambeth pubs owned by the Church Commissioners!

A member of LPL staff at the Lambeth Palace Library stall

A photograph of the room at the Lambeth Local History fair.

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Reposted by Lambeth Palace Library

Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social · 27d

Here is Ted Simonds from @lampallib.bsky.social talking about
Sion College Library’s donors. His research is piecing together stories of people & books, both on & off the pages of the Book of Benefactors, and emphasised (for me!) how much bookish networks overlapped in the period. #BuiltWithBooks

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 29d

More surprising still, it’s in silver – unexpected, given that Hutton had qualms over the cost of becoming archbishop.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 29d

📣 New acquisition! 📣

Seal matrix of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury for just one year, 1757-58.

An unusual survival - archbishops’ seals were often recycled into the seal for the next incumbent.

[L-2025-4]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Acquisition

Seal matrix of Matthew Hutton. Seal in wax and matrix in silver [L-2025-4]

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tickets are still available for our affiliated
exhibition concert in Arundel, Sussex, performing works
from the Arundel Choirbook!🎶

This event is organised and hosted by the Friends of St
Nicholas Church.

Book tickets here! 👇 stnicholas.uk/2025/06/13/c...

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today is the feast of Gregory the Great,
Bishop of Rome, teacher of the Faith, d. 604. This hand
coloured woodcut depicts the Mass of St. Gregory. It is
from Horae ad usum Rothmagensem (Paris, 1498).

[ZZ1488.5]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Archives #History

Woodcut of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, kneeling. [ZZ1488.5]

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 1

For more information on how to book in person and online, and for a full programme of the day, please visit our website: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/music-and.../

Music and Reformation: A Symposium at Lambeth Palace Library – Lambeth Palace Library

Event Calendar

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 1

On 16 September, we are hosting a Music and Reformation Symposium in conjunction with our exhibition, 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'.

Among other themes, we will foster discussion around music fragments recently discovered and identified in library collections. 🎶

Flyleaf in a 16th century printed book. [**H1936.R6 flyleaf]

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 29

Exciting news! ✨

The recorded lecture given by Dr Joseph Mason in association with our 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition has just been published on our YouTube!

If you missed the lecture or are interested in musical manuscripts, then give this video a watch! 🎶

Dr Joseph Mason: Notes from the archive: a tour through pre-modern music in Lambeth Palace Library.

On 31 July 2025, Dr Joseph Mason gave a short paper to introduce the exhibition 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'. In particular, he discussed a newly discovered piece of…

youtu.be

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Arundel Choirbook in Concert!🎶

Two very exciting concerts are happening in September
in conjunction with our exhibition 'Sing Joyfully:
Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'!

For more information, visit the link in our bio ✨

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Concert #Arundel

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's international dog day! 🐶

Here is a picture of Cosmo Gordon Lang around the time of his ordination at Portsea in Hampshire with his fellow ordinands and the vicarage dog, James. James is marked as an Aberdeen terrier and looks to be enjoying the company!

[Lang 300i49]

#InternationalDogDay

Cosmo Gordon Lang (first row centre) with vicarage dog, James, on his lap.

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