Before I come to the headline event for this week’s blog, I want to send out a reminder concerning the Becket Lecture next week, as well as mentioning that on […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024
Before I get to the main business for this week, I want to remind readers that the Becket Lecture is less than a fortnight away on Tuesday 14 May. It […]
Exploring Canterbury’s medieval and Tudor hospitals
I thought I would start with the press release from CCCU Marketing by Jeanette Earl about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, which is coming up fast: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/who-run-the-medieval-world-girls-medieval-women-take-centre-stage-at-history-weekend so if you haven’t […]
Celebrating medieval historians
As the university comes to the end of its Diamond Jubilee year, I thought I would mention Emeritus Professor Peter Vujakovic’s leading role as organiser of The Christ Church Science […]
Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2022!
Amazing to think the Medieval Canterbury Weekend is now over and before too long we’ll need to turn our attention to Tudors and Stuarts 2023. However, it will be worth […]
Medieval matters – MCW 2022, Lossenham and much more
I thought it was time I gave you more information about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2022 which will be up on the Centre’s website very shortly. Thus, I thought I […]
Canterbury, Tonbridge and Newenden – what riches!
Another busy week but I thought I would start with the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend 2021 to say the web site has gone live for bookings, and Matthew will […]
Kent History Postgraduates and food in the Middle Ages
Before I get to the topic for this week – food and its uses in medieval Kent, I thought I would flag up an initiative by the Graduate College if […]
Hospitals and the sick – then and now
As we are almost into May and lockdown measures are still in place, I thought this week I would take the blog back into the Middle Ages, which I’m sure […]