Before I come to the opening of the new gallery at Maidstone Museum with its official launch yesterday (Tuesday 5 June), I thought I would take the opportunity to mention […]
From castles to hospitals – researching Kent’s past
This week is more some short reports on people’s activities around the county rather than notices of what’s coming up next week. However, looking slightly further into June, I thought […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kent’s material culture – in stone, stained glass and early books
This week has seen final preparations for the first of the ‘Inspirational Kent Women Writers’ events, the conference on Saturday. This means there will be a report in the blog […]
Exploring material culture in the past at Canterbury and Dover
I’ll feature the lectures given by the three scholars called Chris at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 in a minute, but I thought I would mention here that the Annual […]
Finding ‘Medieval Animals’ in Canterbury
Still some finishing touches to the new CKHH website but the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 details are all on it which means I’m still very hopeful that the website can […]
‘Beastly Latinists’ and the Unicorn at Canterbury
Now to the second blog for the week to clear the decks for Professor Alan Stewart’s lecture on Tuesday 21 November at 5pm in The Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old […]
Michael Wood’s Becket Lecture and other gems in Kent
Before I come to the main section of the blog this week on Michael Wood’s brilliant Becket Lecture on Theodore of Tarsus and Hadrian, ‘A Man of African Race’, I […]