This week has been Graduation at CCCU and among those receiving their doctoral degrees were Dr Lily Hawker-Yates and Dr Dean Irwin, two stalwarts of the Kent History Postgraduates. Having […]
Maritime Kent – book, conference and potential postgraduate projects
Before I come to the main topic of this week’s blog – Maritime Kent, both the conference and postgraduate opportunities – I thought I would mention that Dr Claire Bartram […]
Kent History Postgraduates, Maritime Kent and Medieval Animals – more goodies
It is still possible to come to the ‘Maritime Kent: Charting New Waters’ conference this Saturday 6 November, 9.50 to 16.00, because booking remains open at https://tinyurl.com/maritimekent and you will […]
Maritime Kent, Festival Lectures and Lossenham Wills Group – more riches
I thought I would start where I left off last week to say that we had a very successful book launch involving the editors, many of the contributors and Professor […]
Skeletons, Animals and Cherries, as well as the Kent History Postgraduates
As in previous years, the CKHH was in charge of a location as part of the Family Heritage Trail around the city as part of the Medieval Pageant. Rather than […]
Award winner and new projects in 2021/22
Stop press: the CKHH is given one of the two runners-up awards in the ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Community’ category of the CCCU’s Staff Recognition Awards 2020/21. So well done […]
Canterbury Festival, Lossenham and Maritime Kent – looking forward
I thought I would start with some very good news. We at the Centre are very grateful to the Kent Archaeological Society for boosting the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate Award […]
Kentish martyrs, saints and the ‘middling sort’ – Nightingale Lecture
To a degree this is a catch up week in that there were the final three talks for Kentish Saints and Martyrs and the Nightingale Lecture, as well as Dr […]
Kentish Saints and Medieval Animals – a saintly greyhound
This week has been very busy, for as well as Diane’s hunt at the Freshers’ Fair for student volunteers to get involved in her NHLF-funded ‘Medieval Animals Heritage’ project – […]