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 […]
Migration through the centuries
The issue of migration in the early modern period with regard to Kent was not an explicit theme in the various papers given at the ‘New Developments’ conference last Saturday. […]
Joan Thirsk’s ‘lost conversations’
I decided to wait until today because the Centre’s programme of (joint) events hit a real high this week with first Professor Louise Wilkinson’s lecture on Wednesday (with Friends of […]
King John: effigy and play
This week I decided to wait until after I had heard Stuart Palmer at the AGM of the Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society [CHAS] because I knew he would be […]
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 […]
Canterbury’s medieval literary history
I think I will start with Professor Peter Brown’s lecture from last night when he gave a masterful account of Canterbury’s literary history between 1340 and 1420, a period that […]
More words and also other artefacts
Last night I joined more than a hundred other people who had come out to hear Professor Richard Gameson give a lecture at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives for the local […]
Road to Runnymede and beyond
I am sure that, like me, many of you have been listening this week to Radio Four with Melvyn Bragg where amongst others Louise Wilkinson, Nicholas Vincent and David Carpenter […]
Further Reflections
Last week I was looking back, so this week I’m going to look forward to 2015 and some of the important anniversaries that will be celebrated here at Canterbury, as […]