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 […]
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 […]
Kent Cricket and a Tudor Mansion
Being busy trying to edit the last in the Kent History Project series: Early Medieval Kent, 800–1220, which needs to be finished and off to the publisher by the 1 […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend
Keeping with the same theme as last week for the first part of the blog, my joint enterprise again involves this Centre, the partner organisation being Canterbury Cathedral Archives and […]
Canterbury and Dover through the ages
This week I thought I would report on a variety of matters linked to the Centre. In terms of the chronology of the events, I’ll start with that relating to […]
Canterbury and Hythe in the Middle Ages
In some ways the summer academic conference season resembles the grouse season, even though the timings are not as precise, in part because the end of the summer term varies […]
Exploring Christ Church Gate
Having highlighted Leonie Seliger’s wonderful talk about the Ancestors stained glass windows last week, I thought today I would focus on another of the cathedral’s experts. I first met Heather […]