Before I come to what has been happening this week, I thought I would start with a quick reminder about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 and to say that tickets […]
Tudors and Stuarts 2021
To run a successful event, you need an ace team and the Centre was again extremely fortunate to have such a group of people. I will come to those at […]
Tudors and Stuarts 2021 and much, much more!
A Happy New Year to all readers, albeit I appreciate it has been and continues to be exceedingly tough, including as we now head into a third lockdown in Great […]
Diocesan archives and the clergy
Looking at the Canterbury and Rochester diocesan archives and ‘The Clerical Estate’
Nightingale Lecture 2019
Nightingale Lecture by Professor Carl Griffin on the Swing Riots and their aftermath. Professor Ellen Swift on replica Ancient Egyptian musical instruments.
Kent History Postgraduates and Sources and Themes in Parish Histories
I am hoping that there will be two blogs this week, I’m covering the Kent History Postgraduate Group’s first meeting of 2019/20 and the ‘Parish Histories’ conference, while my colleague […]
Exploring Church Records at Maidstone and Canterbury
Next week I’m intending to report on Dr Diane Heath’s second set of ‘Magna Carta: Women, Children and Family’ workshops at The Royal Harbour Academy in Ramsgate (this week she […]
Tudors and Stuarts 2019
So that is the Centre’s fourth History Weekend which is done for another year and shortly we will start in earnest on Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020. This will be the […]
William Somner, Archbishop Laud and Canterbury
It has been an interesting and busy week, and before I get to the William Somner conference on Saturday, I thought I would just mention that it was great to […]