First and foremost, the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 is now up and you can see the programme with links to the booking pages at: https://ckhh.org.uk/mcw and you can also reach […]
Kent History Showcase, plus future events
Before I get to the KAS Kent History Showcase at Dover Museum and Market Square last Saturday 3 June, I’m going to bring you news about Dr Diane Heath’s NLHF […]
Discovering Dover and east Kent in the company of experts
Just a quick update, bookings for the Becket Lecture are going well, so if you are new to the CKHH blog and are interested in hearing the acclaimed historian Michael […]
Events linked to Dover and Canterbury
Before I get to what has been happening in the last seven days, I’ll just highlight again what is coming up during half-term week beginning with this Saturday – two […]
Becket Lecture and much, much more!
This week has seen more preparatory work for CKHH events and for those where the Centre is involved, whether as joint organiser and/or active participant. Of these, I want to […]
Future events and Tudor Dover
This week should be much shorter because the main feature is the presentation by Kieron Hoyle to the Kent History Postgraduates group. Otherwise, I’m going to mention several events that […]
Mapping and Medieval Animals – an exciting Easter
For this short lead-up to the Easter Weekend, I’m going to begin with two items relating to the Kent Maps Online project run by Professor Carolyn Oulton, Michelle Crowther and […]
Researching Kent History – sharing exciting discoveries
This week I want to draw you attention to a couple of ‘call for papers’ opportunities, but first I thought I would mention the ‘Church, Saints and Seals, 1150–1300’ study […]
Kent’s Material Culture – from relics to texts
Some of you may remember the NHLF-funded ‘Finding Eanswythe’ project that was run by people from History and Archaeology at CCCU with Dr Andrew Richardson: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/st-eanswythe-found-folkestones-anglo-saxon-saint/ Well the same team […]