Before we reach ‘Migrants, Merchants and Mariners in the Kentish Cinque Ports, c.1400-c.1600’ at Dover Museum on Saturday, which will be in the blog next week, this week has seen […]
Kent’s material culture – in stone, stained glass and early books
This week has seen final preparations for the first of the ‘Inspirational Kent Women Writers’ events, the conference on Saturday. This means there will be a report in the blog […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend – two months away
I thought I would start with the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 because it seems some people are finding that the canterbury.ac.uk/medieval-canterbury link is taking them to last year’s History Weekend […]
Kent women in history – widows and writers
This week has been more meetings, as well as teaching, of course, but I did manage an afternoon in Canterbury Cathedral Archives which I’ll come to in a minute as […]
Exploring material culture in the past at Canterbury and Dover
I’ll feature the lectures given by the three scholars called Chris at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 in a minute, but I thought I would mention here that the Annual […]
Different voices – researching the past in Kent
I thought I would start this week by saying that the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 is continuing to take a good number of bookings each week and it all looks […]
Researching Kent’s colourful history – from mariners to lawyers
Great to see that there is an appetite for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 and I’m pleased to report that ticket sales have started well. If you are new to […]
Centre for Kent History and Heritage: events for 2024
Firstly, Happy New Year to regular and new readers of the CKHH blog, we hope you enjoy it and come back again in future weeks. Secondly, the new website organised […]
Looking back at CKHH highlights in 2023
We now have more on the ckhh website thanks to Ben Cornwell which means if you want to see our previous History Weekends, they are now all up except for […]