First some advance notice: Dr Lesley Hardy will be giving a lecture to the Lyminge Historical Society on Tuesday 3 November at The Tayne Centre at 7.30pm. She will be […]
Restoring Canterbury Cathedral Library in 1660
This week saw another surfeit of riches from a historical perspective because last night there were two events going on in Canterbury. For those interested in the early Middle Ages, […]
Rescuing ducks and liberating sows – the ‘Kentish Tithe War’
For those who were at the Centre’s first event of the new academic year, a joint occasion where the Centre was in partnership with the Agricultural Museum, Brook, they experienced […]
Canterbury pilgrims and beer drinking
This week I had my first Canterbury boat trip when I went with Jonathan Carey (Eastbridge Hospital), Rupert Austin (Canterbury Archaeological Trust) and Rosie Cummings (Canterbury City Council) to look […]
‘Battle of the Ducks’ at Canterbury
The lead-in to the new academic year is always a busy time, even if you are not teaching much, although it looks like I will pick-up a ‘first’ from my […]
Canterbury’s Medieval History and Archaeology
This week has been busy, what with trying to finish off editing ‘Early Medieval Kent’ and attending the Fifteenth Century conference that this year took place at the University of […]
Monarchs at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend
Jeanette Earl mentioned that she had seen a report in the Independent on Thursday, in which the 60 plus writers of the Historical Writers Association had conducted a poll recently […]
Medieval Weekend and New Centre Projects
This week has been quite quiet in terms of matters relating to the Centre, but it is worth recording that the smart new flyer for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend has […]
Nightingale Memorial Lecture: Kentish Tithe Wars
Now that the ‘A’ level results are out and many prospective students know which university they will be heading to in just over a month, I thought I would return […]