{"id":14386,"date":"2023-10-24T23:55:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T22:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/kenthistory\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2023-10-28T08:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T07:45:12","slug":"medway-history-showcase-23-plus-upcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/kenthistory\/medway-history-showcase-23-plus-upcoming-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Medway History Showcase 23 plus upcoming events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apologies about the absence of the CKHH blog but IT at CCCU \u2018lost\u2019 all the university\u2019s blogs again on Friday 13 October and everything ground to a halt while they tried to rectify the problem, hopefully this time for good!! Consequently, fingers crossed this one in the last full week of October will work and remain, and I\u2019ll use it first to highlight the upcoming CKHH<\/strong> and Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust\u2019s November Lecture<\/strong> \u2013 see below, other upcoming events before moving on to report on the Medway History Showcase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The CKHH stand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To begin with the CKHH\/FCAT Lecture: Dr Catrinia Cooper<\/strong>, a digital humanities specialist at CCCU will be speaking on Thursday 2 November<\/strong> at 7pm<\/strong> on the CCCU campus in Newton Ng07<\/strong> (where we were for October\u2019s talk). Her title is: \u2018Beyond the Visual: digital sensory pasts\u2019<\/em> and as she says: \u201cDigital approaches have opened up routes into exploring sensory pasts in new and exciting ways. My talk will discuss two approaches to opening up our understanding of sensorial experience of the past: auralisation and 3D printing, using case studies from Kent and further afield.\u201d As usual, the lecture is free to students, but we ask for a donation of \u00a32 from Friends and \u00a33 from visitors. No need to book and just come along to what promises to be a fascinating presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For the Kent Place-Names and Surnames conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Next, at the Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham<\/strong>, on Saturday 18th<\/sup> November<\/strong> between 10am and 4pm<\/strong> the KAS Place Names Group<\/strong> are holding a one-day conference with seven talks, of which two will be given by Dr Paul Cullen<\/strong>. This promises to be an excellent day because as well as Paul there will be lots of other exceedingly interesting speakers exploring a wide variety of names and naming practices. For \u00a320 tickets, please see the QR code, and for further details, please see www.kentarchaeology.org.uk<\/a> or facebook: @theKentArchaeologicalSociety1857 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving into the spring but before the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024<\/strong> on Friday 26 April<\/strong> to Sunday 28 April<\/strong>, the Kent\u2019s Maritime Communities<\/strong> project based at CCCU and the University of Southampton will be holding an event on Saturday 23 March<\/strong> at Dover Museum <\/strong>thanks to Jon Iveson and Martin Crowther. It is entitled \u2018Migrants, Merchants and Mariners in the Kentish Cinque Ports, c.1400\u2013c.1600\u2019 <\/em>and will feature talks by the project leaders, Dr Craig Lambert<\/strong> and me<\/strong> with the Research Assistant Dr Rob Blackmore<\/strong> and our two doctoral students, Kieron Hoyle<\/strong> and Jason Mazzocchi.<\/strong> Hopefully the six \u2018Medieval Dover\u2019 <\/em>pop-up banners will be back up with further information banners from Craig and Rob on their exciting new discoveries about Dover\u2019s merchants and possibly other banners too. So please do save the date and watch this space for further details!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pete Joyce introduces the panel for ‘What can your archives do for you’, including Jane Joyce (Chatham Dockyard) far right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I now want to focus on the Medway History Showcase<\/strong> from last Saturday (21 October<\/strong>) which as in 2022 took place at the Royal Engineers Museum<\/strong> in Gillingham. Peter<\/strong> and Jane<\/strong> Joyce<\/strong> had done a vast amount of work behind the scenes for this day in conjunction with Rebecca Nash<\/strong> and Tom Paffett<\/strong> from the Museum, as well as ensuring everything went smoothly on the day itself, ably assisted by young JJ. Due to the success of last year\u2019s event, over 180 free tickets had been booked this year and quite a few of the exhibitors had come again. It was lovely to see old friends from the Kent Archives Service<\/strong> and the Medway Archives<\/strong>, in addition to people from Chatham Dockyard<\/strong>, including George Hornby<\/strong>, and Andrew Mayfield<\/strong> (KCC’s Community Archaeologist) with his project at Shorne Country Park<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some of the CKHH publications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This year due to other commitments in Canterbury, Professor Carolyn Oulton<\/strong> and Michelle Crowther<\/strong> could not showcase their \u2018Kent Maps\u2019<\/em> project, but Dr Diane Heath<\/strong>, Jason Mazzocchi <\/strong>and I<\/strong> were there (in almost the same spot as last year) to showcase Medieval Animals Heritage<\/strong>, Kent\u2019s Maritime Communities<\/strong> and Faversham<\/strong> \u2013 aspects of the medieval town and the oyster disputes from the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period. These oyster disputes, as regular readers of the blog will know, form the first of Jason\u2019s case studies for his doctoral project on social and cultural practices in the Cinque Ports through an analysis of discourse and transgression relating to oral, written and pictorial sources \u2013 hence the focus on the oyster maps.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jason discusses the Faversham oyster fishing grounds with visitors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Furthermore, highlighting the oyster fishermen fitted with the day\u2019s theme of industry, and Jason was especially keen to hear Richard Turner\u2019s<\/strong> talk on \u2018Rochester Oyster and Floating Fishery \u2013 a Family History\u2019, for even though Richard explored modern history, ideas such as things done \u2018time out of mind\u2019 as a means to explore orality and social memory remain pertinent whether we are looking at early 17th<\/sup>-century society or communities in far more recent times. Consequently, Jason was able to have a discussion with Richard later in the day, as well as having numerous conversations with people attending the Showcase who were drawn to his display, including a poster of one of the oyster maps. As a result, Jason now has another oyster dispute involving Rochester to study, thereby adding to those at Faversham, Milton and Whitstable, each constituency deploying a different form of documentation to pursue their community\u2019s interests in the face of central government and other opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Diane highlighting the value of medieval animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Diane, too, had large numbers of people, including some teachers, who were interested in how she has been engaging SEND children and their families in a whole range of activities through the use of \u2018medieval animals\u2019. Again, as regular readers of the blog will know, Diane and her band of student volunteers and others, as well as Dr Pip Gregory<\/strong> and Martin Crowther<\/strong> have had a packed schedule for the last couple of years for Diane\u2019s Heritage Lottery funded project. Indeed, the exhibition in the crypt at Rochester Cathedral<\/strong> is still going on, featuring the fabulous Rochester Bestiary<\/strong> that is on loan from the British Library<\/strong>. Do check-out the Rochester Cathedral website, and among those contributing there is Jacob Scott<\/strong>, who is the Cathedral Heritage Officer, and he has just started a doctorate at CCCU being supervised by Dr Catrinia Cooper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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JJ and his fellow exhibition designers at Chatham Dockyard (photo: Peter Joyce)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Finally, just as a round-up of CKHH matters, the Kent History Postgraduates<\/strong> have their monthly online catch-up meeting tomorrow (Wednesday), Dr Diane Heath will be working on the \u2018Baby Green Dragon\u2019 on the CCCU campus later this week using clay and oyster shells and she is making good progress towards organising the book from the conference on medieval animals, I did the first of my Canterbury Festival Walks<\/strong> on behalf of FCAT for Canterbury Archaeological Trust<\/strong> last Sunday with the second on Saturday 4 November<\/strong>, as well as being Professor Paul Bennett\u2019s<\/strong> back-stop for his Festival walk this Friday<\/strong> and we would like to congratulate JJ<\/strong> on his contribution to the \u2018Walking on the Shoulders of Giants\u2019<\/em> exhibition at Chatham Historic Dockyard<\/strong>. For JJ has made an audio-visual presentation as his contribution to the exhibition. Furthermore, regular readers of the blog will have seen JJ because he is a regular helper at CKHH events with his parents, has been an exceedingly active member of Diane\u2019s \u2018Medieval Animals Heritage\u2019 events and was instrumental in the development of sensory backpacks which can be found in many museums across Kent and nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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