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The Bucks Free Press newspaper circulates in South Buckinghamshire in England. On Friday 16th January 2026, it featured a full page story on page forty, entitled "The 500th anniversary of the English New Testament in print". It was in its Nostalgia local history section and so included stories of relevance to local history.
It explained about local Lollard martyrs from Amersham and Chesham who read the Bible in English, with Buckinghamshire connections to Bible translators such as John Wycliffe, Myles Coverdale and Richard Davies.
For more details, follow the link below to the newspaper's website.
The Anglican Cathedral at Blackburn in Lancashire has announced that it will hold an exhibition on William Tyndale from September to November 2026, and hold a conference from 14-15th October 2026.
As part of the events it is going to exhibit a copy of Tyndale's 1535 New Testament, on loan from the British Library.
Blackburn is a fairly new diocese within the Church of England created in 1926, to cover northern Lancashire beyond Liverpool and Manchester. The cathedral is a relatively new building having been built as a large parish church in 1826, before being elevated to cathedral status a hundred years later. As such, 2026 is the centenary of the diocese and the bicentenary of the cathedral as well as the 500th anniversary of the printed English New Testament.
We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Cambridge Bibles, which is part of Cambridge University Press. It is the world's oldest continuous publisher of BIbles, and printed its first Bible in 1591.
Each month through 2026, we’ll present a Tyndale Talk exploring the life, work and influence of William Tyndale — the man who gave us the English Bible.These talks will also be featured on Cambridge Bibles’ new blog, bringing Tyndale’s story to a wider audience.
Join us as we share insights, scholarship and inspiration from one of history’s most transformative figures. Follow along and be part of the conversation!
The first of a series of monthly talks starts on Friday 19th January, 2026. Tyndale Society members will also benefit from a discount on relevant Cambridge Bible products. For further information on Cambridge Bibles, link to the website using the button below.
The Tyndale Society featured in a news article that was published in the United Kingdom on the 'Christian Today' website on Christmas Day. It explains how much of the vocabulary of Christmas dates back five hundred years to Tyndale's Cologne Fragment of Matthew in 1525, Click on the button below to see the original post.
In 1525, William Tyndale was in Cologne in Germany and got caught trying to produce the New Testament in English. He managed to save the first part of the printed New Testament known as the Cologne Fragment, consisting of the first twenty-two chapters of Matthew's gospel, which were smuggled into England.
Therefore, Christmas 2025 marks the 500th anniversary of when ordinary people could read the Christmas narrative in plain English from a printed book. William Tyndale translated Matthew's gospel from Greek into straightforward English, which is still remarkably understandable today.
The Tyndale Society has provided the Christmas narrative from Matthew 1:18 to 2:23 from Tyndale's Cologne Fragment which included most of Matthew. It starts "The byrthe of Christ was on this wyse..." You can use this in your church or for personal devotions. One copy is printed with its original spelling and the other with modernised spelling. The verse numbers (which were not part of the original) have been added for convenience. It also includes Tyndale's original cross-references and marginal notes.
These resources are free to download and use. Please click on the appropriate button below to view or download these documents (in Portable Document Format).
Happy Christmas!