Next week is going to be very busy because not only is it the first week of term but we have the Nightingale Lecture on Tuesday evening, the Aphra Behn […]
This is the 6th lost blog: Michael Wood’s Becket Lecture
Just to explain, the blog ‘Looking forward and catching up with ‘Medieval Animals” from early July (number 5) is currently completely ‘gone’ until I recover the Word file on which […]
Second lost blog: exploring Kent’s medieval past
For news of upcoming CKHH events: Dr Diane Heath’s NLHF- funded ‘Medieval Animals Heritage’ Skin and Bone, Wood and Stone conference; my ‘Kent’s Maritime Communities’ Working with Wills workshops and […]
Discovering Dover and east Kent in the company of experts
Just a quick update, bookings for the Becket Lecture are going well, so if you are new to the CKHH blog and are interested in hearing the acclaimed historian Michael […]
Becket Lecture and much, much more!
This week has seen more preparatory work for CKHH events and for those where the Centre is involved, whether as joint organiser and/or active participant. Of these, I want to […]
Exciting Future Events and Medieval Animals
Exciting news and wholly appropriate just after Easter, for the Becket Lecture in 2023 will be given on Tuesday 11 July by Michael Wood, the acclaimed author of In Search […]
More Tudors and Stuarts 2023 and material culture
As I said last week, I’ll use these two blogs to weave my way through the amazing lectures we have for Tudors & Stuarts 2023 this year. So if you […]
Canterbury – medieval hospitals and Tudors & Stuarts 2023
Before I get to Tudors & Stuarts 2023, as well as Dr John Williams’ FCAT/CKHH lecture, an exciting meeting that took in TWO medieval hospitals, while Dr Diane Heath took […]
Kent’s Material Culture – from relics to texts
Some of you may remember the NHLF-funded ‘Finding Eanswythe’ project that was run by people from History and Archaeology at CCCU with Dr Andrew Richardson: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/st-eanswythe-found-folkestones-anglo-saxon-saint/ Well the same team […]