Firstly, very briefly, we are now just over a week away from the joint all-day conference on ‘Names: Kent Places and People’ that will take place in Powell Lecture theatre […]
Future Centre and History events
I thought I would start this week by again drawing your attention to the showcase event that the Centre is planning in 2017 in case there are any new readers […]
Kent castles and Faversham wall paintings
Firstly, a couple of notices, and I’ll be giving more information next week about the Centre’s joint conference with Kent Archaeological Society on ‘Place Names and Family Names’. This conference […]
Centre events in Canterbury
Firstly, thank you to everyone who has been in contact with Ruth Duckworth using the artsandculture@canterbury.ac.uk email address to register their interest in the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend next […]
Canterbury, Rochester and Early Medieval Kent
July is major month for academic conferences and, as I mentioned last week, several members of the Centre were at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds a couple of weeks […]
Canterbury Castle, Pageant and St Mildred’s church
Today saw most of the medievalists from Canterbury Christ Church at the city’s castle for the first Medieval Pageant and Family Trail day under the leadership of Professor Louise Wilkinson. […]
Medieval Pageant celebrates Canterbury
Now for something a bit different, as they say, in that staff from the Centre don’t just reach out to adults through conferences, workshops, study days and the like, but […]
Shakespeare, lighthouses and the sea
I’m going to keep to a maritime theme this week. Firstly Dr Martin Watt’s one-day conference on ‘Richborough through the Ages’ has now sold over seventy-five tickets which is excellent. […]
Chaucer’s Canterbury and Shakespeare’s Dover
I thought I would keep it short this week, not least because I’m pretty busy doing things for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. Just in case you have missed this the […]