Tag: Lambeth Palace Library

  • New resources in Lambeth Palace Library

    In what has become a traditional annual post, here are some highlights from the Lambeth Palace Library annual review, just published. For those interested in modern ecumenical history, recently catalogued are the files from the Church of England’s Council for Foreign Relations relating to Roman Catholic national churches in several European countries, including Austria, Belgium…

  • New resources at Lambeth Palace Library

    As in previous years, a little round-up of newly available resources at Lambeth for historians of the twentieth century, derived as usual from the Annual Review, this time for 2014. The cataloguing of the main run of Archbishops’ Papers has reached 1984, a year which sees Robert Runcie having to deal with the controversial appointment…

  • New sources at Lambeth Palace Library, 2014

    Some twentieth century highlights from the latest Report of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library: (i) a note on the cataloguing of the papers of John Stott, funded by Stott himself and his executors. There’s more on the LPL site, and on their blog when the cataloguing was finished. (ii) newly catalogued files from the…

  • Editing Michael Ramsey’s writings

    The second half of this book on Archbishop Michael Ramsey consists of a selection of edited sources. As I now have a full first draft of these, I thought I’d publish the list here. There may yet be some changes to this, with some of the sources listed making way for others. Comments on the…

  • New sources at Lambeth Palace Library

    A recent arrival on the doormat was the annual review of Lambeth Palace Library. It includes as always a digest of recent accessions and completed cataloguing, and here are some of the highlights for historians of the period since 1945. The rolling cataloguing of the papers of the archbishops continues, under the usual thirty-year rule,…