Lincoln Cathedral Library Lecture Programme

Lincoln Cathedral Library Lectures 2008

Tickets may be booked by clicking on the menu bar to the left of this page and printing out the form. Please send it to Lincoln Cathedral Library with your cheque made payable to Lincoln Cathedral and a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Saturday 10 May 10.30am – 5pm in the Wren Library

Katherine Swynford Study Day

Speakers: LRS General Editor Dr Nicholas Bennett, Prof Tony Goodman and Mrs Carol Bennett

Tickets: £15

Prof Tony Goodman reveals the characters and lives of Katherine Swynford’s Beaufort children. Dr Nicholas Bennett speaks about the life and times of Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Lincoln 1398 – 1404. Mrs Carol Bennett describes some of Henry’s residences, including the Bishop’s Palace in Lincoln, now an English Heritage site, open daily (01522 527468).

Saturday 17 May 3pm in the Wren Library

‘John Milton and Cambridge’

Speaker: The Revd Canon David Hoyle, Chancellor of Gloucester

Tickets: £6

This is a Lincoln Book Festival event marking the 400th anniversary of John Milton’s birth. Canon Hoyle is the author of the recently published -Reformation and Religious Identity in Cambridge, 1590 – 1644. Friends in Cambridge before the Civil War, the young John Milton later became a Secretary under Cromwell, and the Royalist Michael Honywood was later Dean of Lincoln. Honywood’s first edition of Paradise Lost will be displayed.

Friday 20 June 7.30pm in the Chapter House of Lincoln Cathedral OWING TO HIGH DEMAND FOR TICKETS, THIS LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE NAVE OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL.

The Annual Magna Carta lecture

Speaker: Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss

Tickets are free but must be pre-booked

Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, retired Senior Judge and President of the Family Division of the High Court, 1999 – 2005, speaks on Magna Carta and Modern-Day Justice. The lecture is preceded by drinks in the Cloister at 7pm.

Saturday 21 June 3pm in the Wren Library SOLD OUT

‘The Charter of the Forest, 1217. Its Background and Implementation’

Speaker: LRS Council Member Dr David Crook (formerly of Public Record Office, Kew)

Tickets: £6

Although the Dean and Chapter’s 1215 Magna Carta is famous, its less well known 1217 Charter of the Forest is also of great interest. It amplifies the clauses in Magna Carta which deal with the rights of ordinary people living in royal forests. One of only two surviving copies, it will be on view in the Medieval Library.

Thursday 18 September 3pm in the Wren Library

Speaker: LRS General Editor Dr Nicholas Bennett

Tickets: £6

Dr Nicholas Bennett speaks about the treasured and varied collection of some 260 medieval manuscripts in Lincoln Cathedral Library.