Graduation and Holocaust Memorial Day

Stop press: Dr Claire Bartram’s edited collection Kentish Book Culture: Writers, Archives, Libraries and Sociability 1400-1660 (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2020) arrived yesterday and it looks a very fine volume. Then today the first group of taught MA students in MEMS and Modern History graduated, congratulations to all and especially Katie Brooke as the winner of the first Lawrence Lyle Memorial MA Dissertation Prize.

January, 31
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Jews, Becket, Henry III and Canterbury – a heady mix!

It is Graduation Day for the first cohort of taught MA MEMS and Modern History students next Friday, so in the blog next week I will be revealing the winner of the first Lawrence Lyle Memorial Prize with, I hope, a photograph. However, this week I’ll bring you two brief reports on the Kent History Postgraduate meeting on Wednesday and Professor David Carpenter’s joint Historical Association and Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library lecture on Thomas Becket and Henry III, as part of Becket 2020 on Thursday.

January, 25
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Linking Canterbury and Lyminge through Anglo-Saxon saints

As well as mentioning a couple of events that are due to happen over the next couple of weeks, I shall be reporting on Robert Baldwin’s talk this week, with a brief note about the earlier Gender and Medieval Studies conference in Swansea.

January, 17
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Exciting times ahead – Becket, Canterbury and much, much more

This week I’m exploring what we have planned for 2020.

January, 9
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Kent Centre’s thanks and top events in 2019

As the last blog of 2019, I want to record my thanks to many for their efforts this year and to offer my top three events.

December, 18
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Tonbridge, Eleanor de Montfort and Medway Defences – busy again!

This week we move from Tonbridge in the west to Dover in the south, Medway in the north and Canterbury in the east.

December, 13
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Postgraduates working on Kent History – exciting developments

This week there is information about the Centre’s future events, a report on the Kent History Postgraduate Group’s monthly research seminar and a notice about Dr Jayne Wackett’s memorial tree.