This is yet again a busy week for staff and postgraduates associated with CKHH – as well as Kent, I’ll be in Yorkshire and Somerset, which means paradoxically I’m intending […]
Looking forward – Tudors and Stuarts 2025
It’s another busy week for CKHH in that on Monday one of the Kent History Postgraduates stepped in at the last minute to provide a presentation for the Kent Archives […]
Nightingale lecture, Landscape conference and Behn project – exciting events
It is now less than a week until the Nightingale Lecture and just over a week until the Society for Landscape Studies conference, with the following Saturday 5 October being […]
From the Stone Age to the Tudors – exploring Kent’s past
Before I come to the opening of the new gallery at Maidstone Museum with its official launch yesterday (Tuesday 5 June), I thought I would take the opportunity to mention […]
From castles to hospitals – researching Kent’s past
This week is more some short reports on people’s activities around the county rather than notices of what’s coming up next week. However, looking slightly further into June, I thought […]
Valuing maps – in Kent and Faversham
We are now just over a week away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend and it is a matter of now doing the finishing touches so that our ticket holders have […]
Exploring Canterbury’s medieval and Tudor hospitals
I thought I would start with the press release from CCCU Marketing by Jeanette Earl about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, which is coming up fast: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/who-run-the-medieval-world-girls-medieval-women-take-centre-stage-at-history-weekend so if you haven’t […]
History and heritage in Kent and beyond
Before we reach ‘Migrants, Merchants and Mariners in the Kentish Cinque Ports, c.1400-c.1600’ at Dover Museum on Saturday, which will be in the blog next week, this week has seen […]
Kent’s material culture – in stone, stained glass and early books
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 […]