About this time last year I was musing about Archbishop Sudbury and the subject of commemoration, a fitting topic for the last week in December. This year I’m going to […]
Ian Coulson and Kent
Today I’m going to begin at the end and work backwards, and the particular end I’m focusing on is that of a very good friend of the Centre, as he […]
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 […]
Rochester and Canterbury
I believe several staff members have been out in the county giving lectures to local history groups during November. Among these are John Bulaitis at Whitstable, Lesley Hardy at Lyminge, […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘Battle of the Ducks’ at Canterbury
The lead-in to the new academic year is always a busy time, even if you are not teaching much, although it looks like I will pick-up a ‘first’ from my […]