Librarians' Christian Fellowship

Christians in Library, Information
and Archive Work

 

Visits

 

From time to time visits, to places of interest to members are arranged. These may be to libraries, research centres or Christian organisations, normally with an information or research connection of some kind. Recent visits include Lambeth Palace, Christian Research, the Evangelical Alliance, the British Museum and Tearfund.

2010

The Evangelical Library, Units 5 and 6, Gateway Mews, Ring Way, Bounds Green, London, N11 2UT
Date: Tuesday 21st September
Time: 2:30 pm
The Library moved to this location in 2009. It is home to more than 80,000 evangelical books as well as an archive for many Christian periodicals and offers “the very best in written evangelical spirituality” with sections on church history, doctrine and devotional reading. The Library was originally the vision of the late Geoffrey Williams who created a private collection of Reformed and Puritan evangelical classics , back in the 1930s.

Please contact our secretary, Graham Hedges as soon as possible to book a place. It may be possible to arrange to meet for lunch before the visit.


Previous visits

Wesley's Chapel
On Tuesday 18th May, LCF members visited Wesley's chapel opposite the famous Bunhill Row burial ground where John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, William Blake, Isaac Watts and others are buried.The visit included a tour of Wesley's house and the Museum of Methodism next door.

St. Paul's Cathedral Library
On Tuesday 22nd September 2009 a group of LCF members and friends visited the library of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

Bible World Experience
On Saturday 1st August 2009, our Scottish members visited the Scottish Bible Society's Bible World Experience in Edinburgh.

Westminster Central Hall
On Tuesday 19th May 2009 a group of LCF members visited WCH where Richard Ratcliffe, guest speaker at our 2008 annual gave them a tour of the building and an introduction to the Methodist archives.

Visit report....

The Bible Society
On Tuesday 16th September 2008 members of LCF visited the Bible Society in Swindon

Church of England Record Centre
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 a dozen LCF members visited the Church of England Record Centre in Bermondsey, south London.

LCF visit to Church of England Record Centre, Bermondsey

This was a great opportunity to see behind the scenes and learn more about the work of the Centre which maintains archives for the various national institutions of the Anglican Church.

Rosslyn Chapel

On Saturday 12th July, 2007 a small party of Scottish LCF members visited the chapel...

Visit report...

 

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