I spent today at the Centre’s study day entitled ‘How the Great War changed Kent, 1914–1928’ which took place at Old Sessions House. Even though the number of participants was […]
Magna Carta, Canterbury and Faversham
Last Saturday it was great to see how many people had come to Christ Church to see Tim Jones’ archive film of various Canterbury places and people from the early […]
Canterbury’s early film makers
Last Saturday I attended a screening of archive films of Canterbury presented by Tim Jones, a senior lecturer in film studies at Christ Church, for the Oaten Hill Society. These […]
St Thomas Pageant and Christ Church Gate
I thought this week that I would start with a couple of notices. First, the joint lecture organised by the Centre and Brook Agricultural Museum, the Fourth Nightingale Memorial Lecture […]
Medieval Crane at Fordwich
I was fortunate enough this week to attend Richard Eales’ lecture on ‘The English and the French in Norman Kent and Canterbury’ as part of the winter programme run by […]
Bell Harry in Canterbury and a Cambridge play
This week I’m going to start in mid sixteenth-century Cambridge because yesterday I was leading a seminar on a comedy entitled Gammer Gurton’s Needle that was probably performed at Christ’s […]
A native American in Canterbury
By and large I’m going to stick to the early modern theme this week, not least because I attended an exceedingly interesting lecture on Wednesday by Dr Catherine Richardson (University […]
Planning for 2015
Having attended a planning meeting of the Centre yesterday, I thought it was highly appropriate to record that things are moving on the Great War study day scheduled for a […]
The courtroom and battlefield
Last week was very busy but hugely enjoyable and informative and I would just like to share with you what were the high points for me. Firstly on Wednesday evening […]