Earlier this week I was pleasantly surprised to see Dr Ryan Perry (University of Kent) on the BBC regional news talking about William Caxton’s printed version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, […]
Canterbury, the Centre and knitting
Now that the Canterbury Christ Church campus is almost deserted, the students having finished last Friday and only a few stalwarts in the School still working in their offices today, […]
Canterbury and the Battle of Agincourt
Two nights ago I attended Dr David Grummitt’s lecture to Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society at Canterbury Christ Church. The Society’s committee had decided to use the three autumn meetings […]
Dover and Canterbury – bringing history and archaeology together
Again there may be others within the Centre who will be giving lectures to interest groups in Kent over the next couple of months, but I thought I would just […]
Kent’s Historical and Archaeological Heritage
Among the initiatives at the Centre I thought I would mention this week is Drs Lesley Hardy and Mike Bintley’s community project on ‘Finding Eanswith’, which is a follow-up to […]
St Thomas of Canterbury and his legacy
In many ways this week the topic that has kept reoccurring is Thomas Becket. However before I get on to St Thomas of Canterbury I thought I would just mention […]
Rescuing ducks and liberating sows – the ‘Kentish Tithe War’
For those who were at the Centre’s first event of the new academic year, a joint occasion where the Centre was in partnership with the Agricultural Museum, Brook, they experienced […]
Canterbury’s Medieval History and Archaeology
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 […]
Monarchs at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend
Jeanette Earl mentioned that she had seen a report in the Independent on Thursday, in which the 60 plus writers of the Historical Writers Association had conducted a poll recently […]