This week’s blog contains several items of good news, somewhat in contrast to the national situation. Firstly, it gives me great pleasure to record that Tracey Dessoy and Jane Richardson have been awarded grants from the Ian Coulson Postgraduate Award fund.
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Kent History Postgraduates, Maritime Kent, and Canterbury matters
Just to say thank you very much and more ‘animals’ have been making their way to Dr Diane Heath’s door, including several dragons, a stag, a pig, a bee, an octopus and a bonnacon. I’ll leave you to find out about the latter! If there are any more budding tile-makers out there, please do send in your design to diane.heath@canterbury.ac.uk as the more the merrier.
- July, 16
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, Events, Heritage, Kent, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News
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Maritime Kent and other research topics
This week I thought I would catch up with what Dr Diane Heath has been doing recently, as well as where I and my fellow editors are with Maritime Kent. In some ways the later stages towards publication are more feasible at the moment, compared to the earlier part of completing research and writing where access to archives and libraries is extremely important. However, before I come to these developments, the CCCU Kent History Postgraduates met again this week.
- May, 20
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Heritage, Kent, local and regional history, London, Middle Ages, News, Roman, Stuarts, Tudors
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Kent Centre’s thanks and top events in 2019
As the last blog of 2019, I want to record my thanks to many for their efforts this year and to offer my top three events.
- December, 18
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, festival, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Stuarts, Tudors
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Maritime Kent and more Canterbury landmarks
Some of you may remember that about 15 month ago the Centre held a conference on ‘Maritime Kent through the Ages’. Following that successful day Stuart Bligh, Dr Elizabeth Edwards and I decided we should capitalise on the interest shown and edit a collection of essays under the same heading.
- August, 20
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- academic, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, festival, Heritage, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Stuarts, Tudors, Victorian
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Exploring place and space in Faversham and Canterbury
Now that we are into October, it is great to report that the School of Humanities’ taught Masters degrees in both Modern History and Medieval and Early Modern Studies are up and running, which is in addition to a taught Masters in English Literature. There may be others but these I know about. The reason I mention it is that my option module group, who are studying late medieval and Tudor Canterbury, might be said to be benefitting from the Centre’s presence at Canterbury Christ Church. For those who may be interested, we had an enjoyable and instructive walk through ‘medieval and Tudor Canterbury’ last Wednesday and will be exploring the city’s topography through maps this week.
- October, 5
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, Exhibition, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Second World War, Tudors
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Richborough and Canterbury – TV spotlight
To a degree this follows on from last time in that again there is a maritime theme to this short blog. Firstly, although I wasn’t able to attend this year, I have a brief report from Dr Martin Watts about Whitstable Harbour Day, which took place last Saturday. As an ex-merchant seaman, Martin is keen to promote all things nautical and, as he says, it was another excellent day.
- August, 16
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Events, Great War, Kent, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News
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Canterbury postgraduates and Maritime Kent conference
Before I come to ‘Maritime Kent though the Ages’ this weekend and the great array of speakers, I thought I would very briefly mention that I attended two of the sessions last Saturday of the University of Kent’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Festival that featured six speakers from Canterbury Christ Church University.
- June, 24
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, Great War, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Second World War, Stuarts, Tudors
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Medieval Canterbury Weekend and other events – looking forward
In 2018, we will be heading back to the Middle Ages for our Medieval Canterbury Weekend from the 6 to 8 April. Regarding the lectures and tours, we will start on the Friday evening as usual with a lecture by a leading expert in his/her field.
- January, 5
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, festival, Great War, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Stuarts, Tudors
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Rivers and the sea – from Rochester to Canterbury
Next week will bring the first Chatham Historic Dockyard conference at which Dr Martin Watts (CCCU lecturer and member of the Centre) will be speaking on ‘Chatham Dockyard at the heart of industry and sea power’, and I’ll hope to have some information about this event from Martin after next Friday.
- November, 18
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- academic, archaeology, Blog Posts, Canterbury, conference, Early Modern, Events, Kent, Lecture, local and regional history, Middle Ages, News, Roman, Tudors
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