This week has seen final preparations for the first of the ‘Inspirational Kent Women Writers’ events, the conference on Saturday. This means there will be a report in the blog […]
Becket Lecture and much, much more!
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 […]
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 […]
Kent History Postgraduates, the Lossenham Project and Kent’s Maritime Communities
This week I want to report on the first meeting of 2022 for the Kent History Postgraduates group as well as a meeting of the Lossenham Project wills group in […]
Canterbury, Dover and Becket on 6th July
This week I am going to concentrate on events linked to 6 July, but first, as promised, herewith details of Dr Ben Marsh’s talk on Tuesday 20 July at 7pm […]
Research and Knowledge Exchange in Kent – expanding opportunities
We are now only a couple of weeks away from the Tudors and Stuarts online History Weekend on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th March – very exciting! And there are […]
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. […]
June events and Canterbury pilgrims
Having discussed one event in the whole blog last week, I thought this week I would begin with news of three Centre events next month before turning briefly to one […]
Lambarde, Baedeker and Tithe at Canterbury
Being back in Canterbury this week, I am now turning my attention to future Centre events, especially those due to take place in the next couple of months.