Still busy editing Early Medieval Kent this week but at least I now think I have the photo for the front cover. Having been on a Kent Archaeological Society visit […]
Kent Cricket and a Tudor Mansion
Being busy trying to edit the last in the Kent History Project series: Early Medieval Kent, 800–1220, which needs to be finished and off to the publisher by the 1 […]
Book Culture and Medieval Sandwich
Hopefully some of you will have taken the time to look at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend webpages to see the exciting range of speakers and guided tours available next April. For […]
Tithe Wars and Pilgrim Badges
As last week I want to let you know about matters involving those attached to the Centre, and in this instance I want to highlight the value of working collaboratively […]
Canterbury and Dover through the ages
This week I thought I would report on a variety of matters linked to the Centre. In terms of the chronology of the events, I’ll start with that relating to […]
Exploring Christ Church Gate
Having highlighted Leonie Seliger’s wonderful talk about the Ancestors stained glass windows last week, I thought today I would focus on another of the cathedral’s experts. I first met Heather […]
Magna Carta and Canterbury Cathedral
Today I met members of the group who are putting together an exhibition at The Beaney in Canterbury, from 13 to 28 June, on ‘Our Great Charter’, which represents their […]
Joan Thirsk’s academic great-grandchildren
This week I am going to use the blog spot to give you Rob Gainey’s response to the recent ‘New Directions in Kent History’ conference because as a current Christ […]
Chaucer and Canterbury’s Royal Pilgrims
Even though the coming election continues to dominate national and local news, I thought I would look elsewhere for my short topic this week. Yesterday I took two groups of […]