This week offers useful information on how to find details of the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020, as well as a report on Dean Irwin’s CHAS lecture.
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‘Picture this’, Becket 2020 and medieval chests
This week you can follow the ‘Picture this …’ workshop involving Canterbury MEMS postgraduates and find out about medieval chests.
- November, 8
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, Early Modern, Events, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Stuarts
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Exploring British Library and Cambridge sources
This week I’m reporting on the Kent History Postgraduates meeting and bringing news about future Centre events.
- November, 1
- 538
- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, festival, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, News, Tudors, Victorian
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Canterbury’s Friaries and Hospitals
This week celebrating Canterbury Festival’s walks that help Canterbury Archaeological Trust in its work to uncover the city’s past.
- October, 24
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- academic, Anglo-Saxon, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Events, festival, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News
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Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020
Stop Press: Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020 goes live!
- October, 17
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- academic, Anglo-Saxon, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Events, Exhibition, festival, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, London, Middle Ages, News, Tudors
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Cobham and Wye Colleges
This week the Centre has been working with Canterbury Archaeological Trust and Kent Archaeological Society, as well as other outreach opportunities.
- October, 13
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Events, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, Victorian
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Diocesan archives and the clergy
Looking at the Canterbury and Rochester diocesan archives and ‘The Clerical Estate’
- October, 4
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- academic, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, Exhibition, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Stuarts, Tudors
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Nightingale Lecture 2019
Nightingale Lecture by Professor Carl Griffin on the Swing Riots and their aftermath. Professor Ellen Swift on replica Ancient Egyptian musical instruments.
- September, 30
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- academic, Blog Posts, Canterbury, Events, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, News, Roman, Victorian
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Kent History Postgraduates and Sources and Themes in Parish Histories
I am hoping that there will be two blogs this week, I’m covering the Kent History Postgraduate Group’s first meeting of 2019/20 and the ‘Parish Histories’ conference, while my colleague Dr Diane Heath has reported on the Medieval Education Day where the Centre contributed a very successful workshop for students from Gad’s Hill School on Thursday.
- September, 21
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- academic, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Exhibition, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, News, Stuarts, Tudors
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Shields at the Ready! The Dering Roll and Medieval Education Day
As Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh reminded me (Dr Diane Heath), it has been a year since our participation in the first Medieval Education Day for primary schools in the East Kent area, a scheme launched by Lyndsay Ridley at The Canterbury Tales visitor attraction (see Sheila’s blog from last year https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/young-medievalists-and-medieval-animals-in-canterbury/).
- September, 21
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, Events, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News
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