Before I get to the main business for this week, I want to remind readers that the Becket Lecture is less than a fortnight away on Tuesday 14 May. It […]
Valuing maps – in Kent and Faversham
We are now just over a week away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend and it is a matter of now doing the finishing touches so that our ticket holders have […]
Church-going in medieval Lenham, plus looking forward
I hope our regular (and all) CKHH blog readers had a good Easter Weekend. My thanks to Dr Diane Heath who this week has been busy putting the Medieval Canterbury […]
History and heritage in Kent and beyond
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 […]