… to Charlotte Panofré, a postgraduate member of the Centre, who has received this year’s Sir John Neale Prize in sixteenth-century history. Charlotte’s article on the publishing activities of the Marian exile community in Geneva won the prestigious £1500 award, which is administered by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. Another CMT member, Dunstan Roberts, was joint-winner in 2008 for his essay analysing anonymous marginalia in a copy of ‘The Institution of a Christen Man’. The success of these students, both based in the Cambridge English Faculty, is testimony to the way that work on the material text can win assent across the usual disciplinary boundaries.

Lambeth Palace Library is one of the earliest public libraries in England, founded in 1610 under the will of Archbishop Richard Bancroft. This exhibition draws upon the Library’s incomparably rich and diverse collections of manuscripts, archives and books, some of which will be on display for the first time. It reveals how the collections have developed since 1610 and explores the history surrounding the people who owned, studies or used them as aids to prayer and devotion.

The exhibition is open 10am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday from 17th May to 23rd July 2010. For more details and booking information, please visit www.lambethpalacelibrary.org.