This week has seen more activity regarding publicity and arrangements for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. In addition Dr Martin Watts has been finalising details for the one-day conference on ‘Richborough […]
Medieval Canterbury and Northampton
This week I have returned to the Middle Ages, not least because it is the Becket Lecture tomorrow evening, beginning at 6pm, wine from 5.30. The lecture will be in […]
‘The Gospels of St Augustine of Canterbury’: A Gift from Rome to Canterbury
O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale The ‘warm South’ was Keats’ evocative phrase for […]
Restoration Canterbury and Tunbridge Wells
Normally I would not associate January with a great crop of lectures, but this January has been exceptional. Indeed there have been so many that last night brought the Anselm […]
Ian Coulson and William Urry
As a medievalist, I’m very interested in memory, memorials and commemoration (as readers of this blog may have gathered from previous posts!), but even though there are in many ways […]
Becket, Pilgrims and Canterbury
About this time last year I was musing about Archbishop Sudbury and the subject of commemoration, a fitting topic for the last week in December. This year I’m going to […]
Canterbury, the Centre and knitting
Now that the Canterbury Christ Church campus is almost deserted, the students having finished last Friday and only a few stalwarts in the School still working in their offices today, […]
Canterbury and the Battle of Agincourt
Two nights ago I attended Dr David Grummitt’s lecture to Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society at Canterbury Christ Church. The Society’s committee had decided to use the three autumn meetings […]
Rochester and Canterbury
I believe several staff members have been out in the county giving lectures to local history groups during November. Among these are John Bulaitis at Whitstable, Lesley Hardy at Lyminge, […]