Our learning library

Below, you will find highlights from our extensive collection of films, podcasts and written resources.

Search keywords in our library to find exactly what you’re looking for – or use the filters to find resources by audience, theme and type.

Audience
The west front of the cathedral with tourists milling round and sun shining over head
Information sheet
Cathedral
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Visual story for guided school visits

Use our visual story to help prepare for your visit with us. Designed for those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to support familiarity with the space, the experience and the people here before your visit.
Karen is a white woman with light wavy hair pinned up and glasses, wearing a pale green rollneck sweater, smiling at someone to the side of the camera.
Written reflection
Darkness
Evil
Faith
Hope
Light
Suffering

Light and darkness

Karen Kilby reflects on faith in times of light and darkness.
Chine, a black woman with long dark hair wearing a patterned black dress, speaks at the lectern in the Wren Suite of St Paul's Cathedral.
Film and video
Belonging
Black experience
Black History Month
Christ
God
Race

God is Not a White Man

Chine McDonald reflects on what happens when we face hard and painful truths about race, identity and the imago Dei - the idea that every human, no matter what their colour, has a special quality that resembles the divine beauty of God.
Rowan Williams stands at a lectern on stage at St Paul's Cathedral
Film and video
Jesus
Mary
Motherhood
New Testament

My Spirit Rejoices: Mary, the Mother of Jesus

Rowan Williams explores Mary’s life in the Gospels, from the Annunciation to the Cross and Pentecost: a story where heaven and earth come close together.
A screen shot of Judy Fentress-Williams, a black woman black hair tied back, wearing a clerical collar and a brightly patterned top and sitting in front of a bookcase and window with white wooden blinds, and Paula Gooder, a white woman with long blond hair sitting beside a pale painted wall with a corner of a fireplace behind her.
Film and video
Bible
Biblical Scholarship
Imagination
New Testament
Old Testament
Storytelling

Holy Imagination: poetry and authority in the Bible

Judy Fentress-Williams and Paula Gooder talk about the beautiful, inspiring and difficult parts of the Bible, why we should read it like poetry, and what Biblical authority really means.
Looking up towards the dome through trees from the north east side of the cathedral
Activity
Architecture
History
Maths

St Paul's Garden Trail

Follow the free printable trail around the gardens of St Paul’s to explore the design, stories and details of the Cathedral.
A still from a YouTube film displaying the Rublev Icon
Film and video
Art
Holy Spirit
Icons
Prayer
Rublev Icon
Sacred art
Trinity

The Rublev Icon

Ann Persson explores what we might learn about the Holy Trinity from contemplating the Rublev Icon.
The monument to Samuel Johnson depicts him leaning on a column, dressed in antique drapes, and contemplating a scroll
Written reflection
Cathedral
History

History Set in Stone: Church, Power and Empire

Students discover how monuments at St Paul’s Cathedral can inform understanding of the British Empire and its influence and impact on the wider world.