Before I come to the green dragon building, I thought I would highlight again this opportunity for someone interested in early medieval landscape history. OPPORTUNITY FOR HISTORIAN – it could […]
Dover, Becket pilgrims, and medieval animals
STOP PRESS! a fabulous opportunity to see Dr Rachel Koopmans give an illustrated presentation on the Becket Miracle Window that featured in the British Museum’s Becket exhibition last summer. This […]
Dragons, Magna Carta and reading charters
It is possible some of you may have seen the ‘Kent Day’ article published online on Thursday 26 May https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/celebrating-kents-history-and-heritage which, as noted in the CKHH blog last week, is […]
Becket Lecture, Green Dragons and Lossenham project
For this week I will be highlighting Professor Miri Rubin’s Becket Lecture, but before I get to that I just want to mention a few other activities involving members of […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2022!
Amazing to think the Medieval Canterbury Weekend is now over and before too long we’ll need to turn our attention to Tudors and Stuarts 2023. However, it will be worth […]
MCW2022 and Kent: Gateway to the World History Festival
I thought I would start by saying that we are now on the countdown to the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2022 and, for those who use twitter, Dr Diane Heath informs […]
Canterbury, Dover and Nonington – celebrating histories
Because the CKHH blog of 6th April has seemingly gone walkabout in the ether, I’m going to resurrect part of it for this week where it is still relevant. In […]
Canterbury, Lossenham and Lenham – crossing boundaries
First of all, apologies for the very strange happenings regarding last week’s blog, I have no idea why it kept disappearing and nobody seems to know why at CCCU either. […]
Canterbury Maps and Mapmakers, plus other events
We are now a month away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend and things are beginning to gear up which is very exciting. I’m delighted that several long-standing friends of the […]