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Every few years a Lollard Martyrs' Play is hosted in the parish church at Old Amersham in Buckinghamshire. This tells the story of the Amersham Tudor Lollards. The church is transformed into a 16th century scene with actors dressed in period costume, speaking 16th century English, reading the scriptures in English and going about their lives before being arrested and put on trial. It brings the whole story alive.
The next production of the Amersham Martyrs Community Play has been announced for March 2027, at St Mary’s Church, Amersham. (The actual dates are still to be confirmed but we will publish them when they become available.)
For further information about the plays, follow the link below to the website of Amersham Museum.
The 500th anniversary of the Tyndale New Testament has inspired a project in London at Pentecost, organised by K180. 'The Word on the Street' will be held in London on 23rd May 2026, from 11a.m. to 1p.m., based at St Martin-in-the-Fields church. Hundreds of people will line the streets near Trafalgar Square reading the New Testament, ready to give their copy away to anyone who asks.
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An exhibition with information about WIlliam Tyndale, prepared by Tyndale Society member Paul Linnell, has been on display at Leicester Cathedral, through November and December 2025. From there it moved to Lutterworth Church in Leicestershire and it will be based at Wellingborough URC in Northamptonshire throughout March and April 2026.
If you would like to arrange for the exhibition to be based in your own church for a period, please contact
Amersham Museum in Bucks, is arranging monthly Tudor walking tours of Old Amersham which will include learning about the Lollards, who were the pre-Reformation evangelicals, who used to read William Tyndale's New Testament.
Learn how some of the Lollards were martyred for their faith locally. The tours will be conducted by actors in Tudor costume. The walks last from 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. and start at Amersham Museum. They will be held on the last Saturday of each month from April to September.
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On 2nd April 2026, Candler School of Theology’s Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA hosted its annual Morgan Forum. To mark the 500th anniversary of William Tyndale's New Testament, the keynote speaker was Tyndale Society member, Mark Rankin, who is Professor of English at James Madison University in Virginia. He reflected on history and the impact of William Tyndale and his English translation of the New Testament, as seen five hundred years later.
You can watch a recording of his talk online through YouTube by clicking on the link below.