Next week I’ll be bringing reports from Kieron Hoyle and Jason Mazzocchi on the ‘Shipbuilding’ conference at Chatham Dockyard, the Canterbury Expo, Victoria Stevens on her MA topic (please note […]
Looking back at CKHH highlights in 2023
We now have more on the ckhh website thanks to Ben Cornwell which means if you want to see our previous History Weekends, they are now all up except for […]
Canterbury and International Women’s Day
Even though you might say that all historians interrogate the evidence to uncover the past, this becomes ever more challenging when it concerns the lives of those below the aristocracy […]
Kent History Centre events in 2017
So what is there to look forward to from the Centre in the first half of 2017? The flagship event will be the ‘Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend’ between Friday […]
Future Centre and History events
I thought I would start this week by again drawing your attention to the showcase event that the Centre is planning in 2017 in case there are any new readers […]
Kent castles and Faversham wall paintings
Firstly, a couple of notices, and I’ll be giving more information next week about the Centre’s joint conference with Kent Archaeological Society on ‘Place Names and Family Names’. This conference […]
Nightingale Lecture: Brook and Canterbury
In many ways, both events I’m talking about this week can be seen as a legacy of the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. The first took place in St Martin’s Priory, the […]
Dover and Canterbury
Progress on the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend website continues but is not quite finished. Consequently, this week I am going to concentrate on a fascinating lecture I heard last […]
Tudors and Stuarts at Canterbury – more news
Moving to mid-August and it remains a quiet time in the academic year before the ‘A’ level results appear and universities endeavour to attract even more students through ‘clearing’.