Last Saturday I attended a screening of archive films of Canterbury presented by Tim Jones, a senior lecturer in film studies at Christ Church, for the Oaten Hill Society. These […]
Chaucer and Canterbury’s Royal Pilgrims
Even though the coming election continues to dominate national and local news, I thought I would look elsewhere for my short topic this week. Yesterday I took two groups of […]
St Thomas Pageant and Christ Church Gate
I thought this week that I would start with a couple of notices. First, the joint lecture organised by the Centre and Brook Agricultural Museum, the Fourth Nightingale Memorial Lecture […]
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 […]
From Augustine to Becket
A few days ago I met up with Ian Coulson to discuss the final volume in the History of Kent series: Early Medieval Kent, 800–1220. This series, sponsored by Kent […]
From Magna Carta to the Prebendaries’ Plot
The last week has brought to light some fascinating discoveries. Firstly it was great to hear about the uncovering of Sandwich’s own copy of the Magna Carta that was unearthed […]
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 […]
Exploring written words in the archives
Last night I attended a fascinating lecture on ‘The Men behind the Pen’ by Imogen Corrigan and I was struck once again by just how vital the preservation of books, […]
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 […]