Another busy week at Canterbury Christ Church because on Wednesday Dr Michael (Mike) Bintley gave a paper to the staff and postgraduates in Humanities in St Martin’s Priory and then […]
Pilgrims and Warfare at Canterbury
To a degree I’ll be roving around this week in that I’ll be looking briefly at medieval pilgrimage after mentioning a rather splendid cavalry officer from Cornwall who fought at […]
Canterbury before the Normans
This week has seen the ‘Richborough through the Ages’ conference details and booking information go up on the Centre’s webpages and more preparations for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, including Diane […]
Archaeology in Canterbury and Kent
I decided to leave the blog this week until today because I wanted to highlight a lecture that took place this evening at Canterbury Christ Church. For years Dr Paul […]
Richborough and Canterbury
This has been another busy week regarding putting arrangements in place for the ‘Richborough through the Ages’ conference that will take place at Old Sessions House, Canterbury Christ Church on […]
From Iron Age helmet to ‘The Great Bible’
This week has seen more activity regarding publicity and arrangements for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. In addition Dr Martin Watts has been finalising details for the one-day conference on ‘Richborough […]
Michael Hicks at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend
In contrast to the previous fortnight, this week has been much quieter with regard to history lectures open to the public, except for Dr Martin Watts’ talk at St Peter’s […]
Medieval Canterbury and Northampton
This week I have returned to the Middle Ages, not least because it is the Becket Lecture tomorrow evening, beginning at 6pm, wine from 5.30. The lecture will be in […]
Restoration Canterbury and Tunbridge Wells
Normally I would not associate January with a great crop of lectures, but this January has been exceptional. Indeed there have been so many that last night brought the Anselm […]