Again this week I’m primarily going to focus on upcoming events in September by adding the AHRC Aphra Behn project launch to the Nightingale Lecture and Institutional Care through the […]
Events linked to Dover and Canterbury
Before I get to what has been happening in the last seven days, I’ll just highlight again what is coming up during half-term week beginning with this Saturday – two […]
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 […]
Kent History Postgraduates and future events
It is now just over a week until the Tudors & Stuarts 2023 History Weekend which will start at 7pm on Friday 28 April with Professor Catherine Richardson’s fascinating lecture […]
Exciting Future Events and Medieval Animals
Exciting news and wholly appropriate just after Easter, for the Becket Lecture in 2023 will be given on Tuesday 11 July by Michael Wood, the acclaimed author of In Search […]
Canterbury Seals Day – looking to the past, present and future
This week is a mix of past, present and future in that I’m mainly going to report on the ‘Church, Saints and Seals, 1150-1300’ conference that took place last weekend, […]
Researching Kent History – sharing exciting discoveries
This week I want to draw you attention to a couple of ‘call for papers’ opportunities, but first I thought I would mention the ‘Church, Saints and Seals, 1150–1300’ study […]
Medieval Animals Heritage and Exploring the Lives of People in the Past
I thought I would start with a couple of things from Dr Diane Heath’s NHLF-funded ‘Medieval Animals Heritage’ project. Firstly, she said they had a great time in Canterbury Cathedral […]
Kent’s Material Culture – from relics to texts
Some of you may remember the NHLF-funded ‘Finding Eanswythe’ project that was run by people from History and Archaeology at CCCU with Dr Andrew Richardson: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/st-eanswythe-found-folkestones-anglo-saxon-saint/ Well the same team […]