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 […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend – two months away
I thought I would start with the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 because it seems some people are finding that the canterbury.ac.uk/medieval-canterbury link is taking them to last year’s History Weekend […]
Centre for Kent History and Heritage: events for 2024
Firstly, Happy New Year to regular and new readers of the CKHH blog, we hope you enjoy it and come back again in future weeks. Secondly, the new website organised […]
Looking back at CKHH highlights in 2023
We now have more on the ckhh website thanks to Ben Cornwell which means if you want to see our previous History Weekends, they are now all up except for […]
MCW24 goes live plus Dover’s Maison Dieu
First and foremost, the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 is now up and you can see the programme with links to the booking pages at: https://ckhh.org.uk/mcw and you can also reach […]
Sandwich and the Arrival of the Strangers – exploring processes in history
Last night (Tuesday 21 November) we were treated to a fascinating case study by Professor Alan Stewart concerning how the Strangers came to Sandwich in Elizabeth I’s reign. Consequently, this […]
‘Beastly Latinists’ and the Unicorn at Canterbury
Now to the second blog for the week to clear the decks for Professor Alan Stewart’s lecture on Tuesday 21 November at 5pm in The Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old […]
Exploring heritage in Dover, Canterbury and east Kent
Just as an alert to regular blog readers, this is the last CKHH blog until it restarts early in September. Not that this means we aren’t doing anything over August. […]
Exploring Dover and Kent in Tudor times
After the excitement of Michael Wood, it is a more local focus this week, but hopefully no less interesting for that. Consequently, before I come to the exhibition and workshops […]