Labour Party 470, 503, 509, 522, 535, 553, 558
Lake Poets 413
Lambeth Conference 484, 540, 557, 567, 569, 570–1, 577
Lambeth Palace 531, 533
Lancashire, cotton and textile industries 386, 438
Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of 134
Lane Fox, Robin 161
Lanfranc, Abbot of Bec; Archbishop of Canterbury 86, 92–5, 97, 100, 165
Lang, Cosmo, Archbishop of Canterbury 507, 520, 528, 529, 533
Langland, William, Piers Plowman 206, 210
Langridge parish church 150
Langton, Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury 119, 120, 143, 169
Lash, Nicholas 554
Lateran Council
Third (1179) 131
Fourth (1215) 170, 172, 187
Latimer, Hugh, Bishop of Worcester 254, 265, 267, 274, 279, 287, 290
Latimer, William 254
Latin language 94
Latin plainchant 47
latitudinarianism 382–3
Latomus, Jacobus 263
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 330, 334, 335–6, 447
Laudable Association of Anti-Gallicans 406
Laurentius, Archbishop of Canterbury 32
Lausanne Conference on World Mission (1974) 556
Lavoisier, Antoine 461
Law, William 394
Lawrence, D. H. 548
Lawrence, Stephen 566
Lawrence of Arabia 515
Lawson, Nigel 558, 563
League of Nations 508
Lefèvre d’Etaples, Jacques 254
legal system, Anglo-Saxon 84
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 390
Leicester, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of 283, 302, 304, 305
Leicester Cathedral 148, 229
Lennon, John 544
Leo III, Byzantine Emperor 58
Leo IX, Pope 85
Leo XIII, Pope 495
Leoba, Abbess 51
Lérins Abbey, France 30, 34, 47, 138
Leslie, Alexander 336
L’Estrange, Roger 360
Levellers 277, 338, 340, 341–2, 348, 351, 589
Lewes, Battle of (1264) 126
Lewis, C. S. 523, 528, 533, 538–9, 582
Liber Exoniensis 91
Liberal (Broad) Church 468, 470, 506
Liberal Party 454, 480, 500, 504
Liberal Unionists 480
Licensing Act (1662) 355
Lichfield 37, 52, 57
Lichfield Gospels 53, 72, 145
Liddon, Henry 476
Lidgett, John Scott 510, 542
Lightfoot, Joseph, Bishop of Durham 474
Ligonier, Field Marshall Lord 375
Lilburne, John 341–2, 348
Linacre, Thomas 257
Lincoln, Battle of (1217) 123
Lincoln Cathedral 148
Lindisfarne 32, 33, 36, 44–6, 46
destruction of (793) 55, 59
Lindisfarne Gospels 49, 72
Lindsay, A. D. 525, 529
Lindsey, Theophilus 462
Lings, George 574
literary culture 326, 386
Little Gidding 329
liturgical calendar 189–91, 197
liturgy
English tradition 584–5
liturgical reform, Reformation 275–80
medieval 151, 192–6
Liudhard, Bishop 584
Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl (Lord Liverpool) 425
Liverpool Cathedral 526
livery companies 197
Livingstone, David 461, 482–3
Llewellyn ap Gruffyd 127
Lloyd George, David 500, 504, 510, 514, 519
Lloyd-Jones, Martyn 542, 551
Local Education Authorities (LEAs) 536–7
Locke, John 358, 360, 363, 366–9, 372, 382, 393, 408
logical positivism 539–40
Loisy, Alfred 511
Lollards 199, 218, 220, 227–8, 237, 581
Lombard, Peter, Book of Sentences 159, 167–71
London Dock Strike (1889/ 90) 471
London hospitals, founding of 280, 387
London Missionary Society 434, 460, 483, 486
London sewage system 489
London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (later NSPCC) 491
London Society for the Reformation of Manners 388
London synod (1075) 95
Long Parliament 336–7
Longchamps, William 118
Longford, Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of 548
Longley, Charles, Archbishop of Canterbury 484
Loserth, Johannes 218
Louis VII, King of France 112
Louis XII, King of France 241
Louis XIII, King of France 334
Louis XIV, King of France 358, 371, 372, 373, 375, 381
Loveless, George 438
Low Church Anglicanism 383, 468–9, 506
Lowth, Robert, Bishop of London 398
Lubac, Henri de 546
Lugard, Frederick 484, 497
Lupus, Bishop of Troyes 17
Lusignan
see Hugh de Lusignan
Luther, Martin 244–5, 272, 274, 396
95 Theses 187, 235, 247–9, 258, 270
Lutheranism 239, 242, 247–9, 258, 270–1
Luttrell Psalter 137, 145
Lutyens, Sir Edward 514, 519
Lyons, Council of (1245) 172