I thought this week that I would start with a couple of notices. First, the joint lecture organised by the Centre and Brook Agricultural Museum, the Fourth Nightingale Memorial Lecture […]
Migration through the centuries
The issue of migration in the early modern period with regard to Kent was not an explicit theme in the various papers given at the ‘New Developments’ conference last Saturday. […]
Joan Thirsk’s ‘lost conversations’
I decided to wait until today because the Centre’s programme of (joint) events hit a real high this week with first Professor Louise Wilkinson’s lecture on Wednesday (with Friends of […]
King John: effigy and play
This week I decided to wait until after I had heard Stuart Palmer at the AGM of the Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society [CHAS] because I knew he would be […]
Medieval Crane at Fordwich
I was fortunate enough this week to attend Richard Eales’ lecture on ‘The English and the French in Norman Kent and Canterbury’ as part of the winter programme run by […]
Bell Harry in Canterbury and a Cambridge play
This week I’m going to start in mid sixteenth-century Cambridge because yesterday I was leading a seminar on a comedy entitled Gammer Gurton’s Needle that was probably performed at Christ’s […]
A native American in Canterbury
By and large I’m going to stick to the early modern theme this week, not least because I attended an exceedingly interesting lecture on Wednesday by Dr Catherine Richardson (University […]
From Augustine to Becket
A few days ago I met up with Ian Coulson to discuss the final volume in the History of Kent series: Early Medieval Kent, 800–1220. This series, sponsored by Kent […]
From Magna Carta to the Prebendaries’ Plot
The last week has brought to light some fascinating discoveries. Firstly it was great to hear about the uncovering of Sandwich’s own copy of the Magna Carta that was unearthed […]