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 […]
Canterbury – medieval hospitals and Tudors & Stuarts 2023
Before I get to Tudors & Stuarts 2023, as well as Dr John Williams’ FCAT/CKHH lecture, an exciting meeting that took in TWO medieval hospitals, while Dr Diane Heath took […]
Historical Research – the exciting county of Kent
I thought I would start by saying I have been notified that the Tudors & Stuarts 2023 History Weekend (Friday 28 April – Sunday 30 April) website will be live […]
Material culture through the centuries – fascinating discoveries
This week I’m going to reverse the order and I’ll give you notice of future events first before reporting on a joint FCAT and CKHH lecture given by Dr Heidi […]
Rebellion over the centuries – the Kentish experience
I thought this week I would first alert you to the notices about exciting upcoming events towards the end of this week’s blog, but before I get to these, I’ll […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kentish martyrs, saints and the ‘middling sort’ – Nightingale Lecture
To a degree this is a catch up week in that there were the final three talks for Kentish Saints and Martyrs and the Nightingale Lecture, as well as Dr […]