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 […]
Mapping and Medieval Animals – an exciting Easter
For this short lead-up to the Easter Weekend, I’m going to begin with two items relating to the Kent Maps Online project run by Professor Carolyn Oulton, Michelle Crowther and […]
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 […]
Tudors & Stuarts 2023 and other centuries – celebrating diversity
As we are just over a month away from the Tudors & Stuarts 2023 History Weekend, I thought I would use part of the blog this week and next week […]
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 […]
Medieval Animals Heritage and Exploring the Lives of People in the Past
I thought I would start with a couple of things from Dr Diane Heath’s NHLF-funded ‘Medieval Animals Heritage’ project. Firstly, she said they had a great time in Canterbury Cathedral […]
Exploring Past Lives in Kent and Canterbury
I thought that I would share some very exciting news with you. This week marks the launch of a new website at https://maritimebritain.org/ that features two innovative projects, and for […]
Animals and children – exploring the past
Even though I’ll be highlighting in a couple of weeks’ time what events the CKHH will be involved in during the early months of 2023, I thought I would just […]
Celebrating medieval historians
As the university comes to the end of its Diamond Jubilee year, I thought I would mention Emeritus Professor Peter Vujakovic’s leading role as organiser of The Christ Church Science […]