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

🎓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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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury

The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social · 7d

What a great day @thelondonarchives.bsky.social for our #RAG2025 conference. Thanks to all the speakers and to everyone who came along.

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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social · 7d

If you're coming to our annual conference on archives digitisation today, you'll also get a chance to see this exhibition @thelondonarchives.bsky.social!

#RAG2025

The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 7d

London in the Second World War - EXTENDED--> 03/02/26

This free exhibition explores the experiences of Londoners during the Second World War and the effect it had on the city they knew.

More info and FREE tickets: www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 14d

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs!

Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House

Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social · 15d

There is just a week left to book your place for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief

The one-day in-person conference will take place on 2 October at The London Archives

To book, please visit: ticketlab.app/event/31944-...

Religious Archives Group Conference 2025

. Booking is now open for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief.We will hear about three recent digitisation projects:Th...

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 16d

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 20d

I cannot rate this exhibit highly enough. The St. Gallen manuscripts themselves are incredible, but the objects (the Lough Kinale Book-Shrine!) really contextualise the exhibit. And then there are interactive for children to learn more, which is such a brilliant touch. Truly something for everyone.

National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 20d

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Depiction of the Second Coming in the ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang 51, p. 267. © Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social · 29d

We now have the programme finalised for our conference in October

Join us @thelondonarchives.bsky.social ‬to hear about #archives and #digitisation from
@thefreethinkermag.bsky.social
@uoyborthwick.bsky.social
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
National Institute for Newman Studies

t.co/Eu14sJM99C

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British Records Association @britrecs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us at our annual conference 'Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk'.
Tuesday, November 4 10am – 4:30pm GMT at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EL.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguardi...

Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk

Join the BRA as we examine past, present and future risk to UK archives and discuss preservation strategies for the 21st century

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Royal Asiatic Society @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social · Jul 22

Join us to celebrate the launch of the essay volume ‘The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity’ at this free event on 4th August! For further info see: royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-l...
@aucpress.bsky.social

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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social · Jul 22

We're pleased to be joined by speakers from:
@thefreethinkermag.bsky.social
@uoyborthwick.bsky.social
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
and
the National Institute for Newman Studies

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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our annual conference this year is on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief. It's at The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social on 2 October, booking details below:

#RAG2025

ticketlab.app/event/31944-...

Religious Archives Group Conference 2025

. Booking is now open for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief.We will hear about three recent digitisation projects:Th...

ticketlab.app

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Jul 18

It's install week for #MagnaCarta1225 and an array of manuscripts, books and museum items are being readied ahead of next week's opening on Wednesday!

Books and museum items in a display case.

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 17

Every year the background for the EHS Committee group pic gets more impressive!
📍Edinburgh
#EHSCon25

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Jul 6

On Tuesday join us on a massive monasticism fest on the #IMC2025. Four sessions packed with monastic goodness from South Asia to Gaul and from Nubia to Rome. Thirteen papers, four moderators, two organisers: it is the place to be for early medieval monasticism fans at the IMC!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏

If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all.

In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography

A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢Attention Cathedrals!📢

Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚

More details here:

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li...

@englishcathedrals.co.uk

Old St Paul’s cathedral, LPL MS 1106 f.96v

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Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social · Jun 27

I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921

Sarah Roddy’s Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921, which is out in e-book format now and will be released imminently in hard copy by Cambridge University Press, examin…

socialhistory.org.uk

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · Jun 30

Our 'Creeds, Councils and Canons' conference is coming up soon and we welcome everyone to our final plenary lecture at New College, University of Edinburgh with Prof David Fergusson (Cambridge).

Register for the event here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/eccle...

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Anna James @superteadrinker.bsky.social · Jun 25

Look at meeeee
www.ft.com/content/4d19...

In pictures: St Paul’s marks 350th anniversary with rare glimpse of its inner sanctum

FT chief photographer was allowed unprecedented access to Wren masterpiece for a year to reveal unsung heroes who make the cathedral tick

www.ft.com

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St Davids Cathedral Library / Llyfrgell y Gadeirlan Tyddewi @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social · Jun 20

A happy team at the end of #CALCA2025 conference in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social

Before travelling back to @westminsterabbey.bsky.social @salisburycathedral.bsky.social@durhamcathedral.bsky.social @lampallib.bsky.social @chestercathedral.bsky.social #Hereford #norwich #rochester #Windsor #Lismore

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Jun 24

📢WILLS TRANSCRIBATHON KLAXON📢

Join us on Thursday 24 July to transcribe wills and go behind the scenes of the wills project!

In person and on Zoom - full details & registration here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #transcription @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Promotional image advertising 'Wills Project Transcribathon, Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, Digital Humanities Lab University of Exeter and on Zoom. The image also features a portrait of a man making his will, a photo of a box of wills and a page of a will.

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Canterbury Cathedral @cburycathedral.bsky.social · Jun 23

Today, as #InternationalPortraitDay, is a perfect opportunity to highlight our remarkable set of portraits of Deans from the 16th century onwards. 🎨🖌️

Learn more in this article by Cressida Williams, Archives and Library Manager: artuk.org/discover/sto...

Image © Canterbury Cathedral

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