The Easter holidays are often busy as conference organisers seek to fit in their particular offering and this year is no exception.
Magna Carta and the Faversham Custumal
This time next week the Tudors and Stuarts Weekend will be just about to start, which means there will be quite a lot to do next week – all those […]
Canterbury’s changing landscape – telling tales
It is often said, that in terms of Canterbury’s historic built environment the City Council in the post WWII years was far more effective in finishing off what the Luftwaffe […]
Exploring Canterbury’s past – material culture and female agency
In many ways, I want to pick up the same theme as last week. This is because I discovered this week that among the elements within the new GCSE syllabus […]
Famous people in Canterbury: St Thomas and others
Next week is the ‘Gender, Places, Spaces, and Thresholds’ conference that Dr Diane Heath is running for the Centre at Canterbury Christ Church – for details see: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/research-kent-history-and-archaeology/crkha-latest-projects/place-space-and-liminalities.aspx but I […]
Reflections on lectures from Professor Robert Tittler and Tim Tatton-Brown
It is always interesting to hear what various members of the School of Humanities are doing in terms of Kent History and Heritage and I happened to see both Dr […]
Exploring Canterbury Christ Church campus
The first weekend in September will see the Society for Church Archaeology’s conference on ‘Church and Industry’ at Canterbury Christ Church.
Centre for Kent History and Heritage future events
Due to the unusually long blog post last week – there had been just so many exciting events going on – I’m going to keep it shorter this week and […]
Canterbury pilgrims and beer drinking
This week I had my first Canterbury boat trip when I went with Jonathan Carey (Eastbridge Hospital), Rupert Austin (Canterbury Archaeological Trust) and Rosie Cummings (Canterbury City Council) to look […]