This week I want to highlight some forthcoming events, starting with the Annual Becket Lecture, which is next Tuesday 14 May at 6pm (drinks reception from 5.30pm). Professor Elisabeth van […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024
Before I get to the main business for this week, I want to remind readers that the Becket Lecture is less than a fortnight away on Tuesday 14 May. It […]
Countdown to MCW24, plus May lectures
We are now only a couple of days away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024, but if you haven’t got your tickets, you still can and details of all the […]
Valuing maps – in Kent and Faversham
We are now just over a week away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend and it is a matter of now doing the finishing touches so that our ticket holders have […]
Exploring Canterbury’s medieval and Tudor hospitals
I thought I would start with the press release from CCCU Marketing by Jeanette Earl about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, which is coming up fast: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/who-run-the-medieval-world-girls-medieval-women-take-centre-stage-at-history-weekend so if you haven’t […]
Church-going in medieval Lenham, plus looking forward
I hope our regular (and all) CKHH blog readers had a good Easter Weekend. My thanks to Dr Diane Heath who this week has been busy putting the Medieval Canterbury […]
Kent’s Maritime Communities
We are now a month away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 between 26th and 28th April, so not quite on the countdown but certainly getting near to it after […]
History and heritage in Kent and beyond
Before we reach ‘Migrants, Merchants and Mariners in the Kentish Cinque Ports, c.1400-c.1600’ at Dover Museum on Saturday, which will be in the blog next week, this week has seen […]
Turning the spotlight on the past: investigating Canterbury and Kent
Before I come to what has been happening this week, I thought I would start with a quick reminder about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 and to say that tickets […]