Apologies about the absence of the CKHH blog but IT at CCCU ‘lost’ all the university’s blogs again on Friday 13 October and everything ground to a halt while they […]
Canterbury and Kent – from place names to wool traders
Firstly, news about a forthcoming Centre’s colloquium in the Spring that is now on the ‘Future Events’ page on the Centre’s website: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/research-kent-history-and-archaeology/events.aspx
Pigs, Place-Names and more Young Medievalists in Canterbury
This week has been a case of looking forward to the new academic year and the School of Humanities’ first intake of Medieval & Early Modern Studies Taught Masters students, […]
Autumn events – welcoming Michael Wood, Rachel Koopmans and Paul Cullen
It won’t be long before we are into the Centre’s autumn events, and, as well as the Nightingale Lecture mentioned last week, it is with great pleasure that I want […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend and other events – looking forward
In 2018, we will be heading back to the Middle Ages for our Medieval Canterbury Weekend from the 6 to 8 April. Regarding the lectures and tours, we will start […]
Maritime Kent – place-names, sea songs and Anglo-Saxon ‘invaders’
Keeping with the maritime theme, at least for part of this blog, I thought I would report on a presentation I went to last Saturday at the Beaney in Canterbury. […]
Names and Drama in Kent and Canterbury
This has been an excellent week in terms of lectures and conferences. On Wednesday evening, the second of the Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society’s winter programme of lectures took place […]
Material Culture explored in Canterbury and London
This has been a quiet week from the perspective of lectures and similar events in or about Canterbury, although, of course, the Canterbury Festival walks on behalf of Canterbury Archaeological […]