Happy New Year to readers of the Centre for Kent History and Heritage’s weekly blog that is now back after its fortnight Christmas break. Firstly, I’m delighted to announce that […]
Kent History Postgraduates and Sources and Themes in Parish Histories
I am hoping that there will be two blogs this week, I’m covering the Kent History Postgraduate Group’s first meeting of 2019/20 and the ‘Parish Histories’ conference, while my colleague […]
Shields at the Ready! The Dering Roll and Medieval Education Day
As Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh reminded me (Dr Diane Heath), it has been a year since our participation in the first Medieval Education Day for primary schools in the East Kent […]
Kentish saints – using archaeology, texts and material culture
As a starting point, I thought I would mention that Professor Louise Wilkinson and I are putting together a series of evening talks for the first week in September 2020 […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020 and Canterbury’s water supply
I am continuing to make progress on the programme for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020 that will take place from Friday 3 to Sunday 5 April. All being well, work […]
Magna Carta workshops at the Royal Harbour Academy Ramsgate
Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh has asked me to write the Centre’s final blog before the summer vacation because I (Dr Diane Heath) have been working on a terrific project with a […]
Exploring Church Records at Maidstone and Canterbury
Next week I’m intending to report on Dr Diane Heath’s second set of ‘Magna Carta: Women, Children and Family’ workshops at The Royal Harbour Academy in Ramsgate (this week she […]
Biodiversity and Medieval Pageant at Canterbury
I’m going to concentrate on the Medieval Pageant this week because it has now become a major day in Canterbury’s calendar, and once again Professor Louise Wilkinson led a team […]
Exploring medieval society at Canterbury and Tonbridge
I thought I would begin this week with news about several events that are due to take place on and around 6 July, although before that I thought I would […]