This week has been busy, what with trying to finish off editing ‘Early Medieval Kent’ and attending the Fifteenth Century conference that this year took place at the University of […]
Medieval Weekend and New Centre Projects
This week has been quite quiet in terms of matters relating to the Centre, but it is worth recording that the smart new flyer for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend has […]
Canterbury and Dover through the ages
This week I thought I would report on a variety of matters linked to the Centre. In terms of the chronology of the events, I’ll start with that relating to […]
The Great War in Kent
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 […]