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The best surviving copy of William Tyndale's 1526 New Testament, which usually resides at the Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, will be on display throughout July 2025 at the Platin-Moretus museum in Antwerp, where it was brought for the Tyndale Society conference this year.
The Tyndale Society held a very successful international conference in Antwerp in Belgium to mark the 30th anniversary of the Society and the quincentenary of the publication of Tyndale's New Testament in English. The conference was attended by ninety-five participants, mainly from the UK, USA, Belgium and the Netherlands. The theme was 'Tudor England and the Antwerp Book Trade'. The event was organised by Guido Lattro and staff members of the MPM (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Antwerp University and Louvain University.
The event included speakers, exhibits of 16th century books and optional guided tours of Antwerp and Leuven. The conference also included a concert by the Tyndale Singers (including former and current members of the English Chamber Choir) held at Antwerp Cathedral with the Anglican Church of Antwerp.
For more information, see the Tyndale Journal and a future edition of Reformation magazine.
You can also see a report on the conference on the website of the University of Antwerp
There is a new book about William Tyndale, written by a friend of the Tyndale Society: Brian Edwards. It is published by DayOne and the publisher has kindly offered a 25% discount off the retail price to Tyndale Society members. Contact us for the code! Click on the button below for a link to DayOne's online sales department.
On Monday 3rd February the Tyndale Society held a special event in Cambridge when we went to Cambridge University Library (CUL) where Dr Harry Spillane, Research Fellow at Cambridge University, showed us early English Bibles from the Bible Society collection from Tyndale to the Authorized KJV.
We were joined by Mary Clow, Guido Latre, Amanda Taylor from Cambridge Bibles, Dr Onesimus Ndungu the Bible Society archivist, Peter Williams from Tyndale House and Dr Emanuel Contac, a Romanian Bible researcher. After lunch at the CUL canteen we headed over to the Cambridge University Press to meet Bob Groser, who told us something of their long history and took us on a guided tour of the museum.
That evening we held a little 30th anniversary party at Mary Clow’s house near Wendover in Bucks, when we were joined by Guido Latre, Anne & Martin Hayward and Brian Edwards to eat a wonderful cake made by Kirsty Rees. We then joined our American friends online via the wonders of Zoom. On the Sunday, some of us met for lunch at the Firecrest pub near Wendover.