{"id":16930,"date":"2025-01-08T23:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/kenthistory\/?p=16930"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:35:08","slug":"the-ckhh-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/kenthistory\/the-ckhh-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The CKHH in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First of all, Happy New Year to readers of the CKHH blog and we hope you continue to enjoy following our activities during the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Currently, I can only give you a flavour of what is in store for 2025 because most events are in the planning stage, and even more will materialise over the next few months. Nevertheless, our flagship event, the Tudors and Stuarts 2025 History Weekend<\/strong> on Friday 25 April to Sunday 27 April<\/strong> is very much up and running and for those interested in \u2018Royalty and Nobility\u2019 there is a feast of talks over the 3 days from Dr Alison Weir<\/strong> speaking on Mary Tudor on the Friday evening, Professors Steven Gunn<\/strong> on Henry VII\u2019s court and Anthony Musson <\/strong>on Henry VIII\u2019s progresses on the Saturday to Professor Kenneth Fincham\u2019s<\/strong> talk on Charles II on the Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thomas More: the subject of Joanne Paul’s talk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

While for those interested in drama, art and literature, there will be speakers such as Drs Astrid Stilma<\/strong>, Rory Loughnane<\/strong> and Christina Faraday<\/strong> on Saturday, with Dr David Hitchcock<\/strong> and Charlotte Cornell<\/strong> on Sunday. As you know socially and culturally these were turbulent times, which will be reflected in the talks to be given by Dr Rebecca Warren<\/strong> and Professor Clare Jackson<\/strong> on Saturday, and Dr Chloe Ireton <\/strong>on Sunday, who will investigate topics from witches to slavery. \u2018Warfare and Politics\u2019 is another strand, which means we will benefit from talks by Dr Joanne Paul<\/strong> and Professor Glenn Richardson<\/strong> on Saturday, and Professor Jackie Eales\u2019<\/strong> keynote lecture on Sunday as the Weekend\u2019s final event. For full details please see: https:\/\/ckhh.org.uk\/tudors-stuarts<\/a> and, as always, the CKHH Bookshop<\/strong> will have a bookstall throughout the Weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plans are afoot regarding our 2 named lectures and Professor Rachel Koopmans<\/strong>, who will be back shortly from North America, is going to give the Becket Lecture<\/strong> of 2025, probably in May, and we\u2019ll finalise the date on her return to Canterbury. As many of you will know, she is working with Leonie Seliger<\/strong>, who heads Canterbury Cathedral\u2019s Glass Studio team, on their third Becket Miracle Window<\/strong>, and this will be the subject of her lecture. The CKHH has a special interest in this window, commonly called the \u2018Kent Window\u2019 because of our involvement from the start of this project. Moreover, the early 13th<\/sup>-century glass is exquisite, not least the background blue pieces with their delicate spirals and scroll pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the Dean & Chapter is keen to give people a chance to learn more about this window and the research that is taking place. Consequently, there will be a one-day workshop on the window on Monday 31 March<\/strong> and, as Cressida Williams <\/strong>of the Cathedral Archives writes, \u201cThis study day takes advantage of the removal of one of those windows, with talks by leading experts, the unique opportunity for participants to see panels from the window up close, a display from the historic collections in the Cathedral Archives, and guided tours of the Trinity Chapel. Tickets: General admission – \u00a360; bursaries available for students\/unwaged. Spaces are limited. For further information and the full programme, see 31March25 Miracles in Glass: The Study and Conservation of Canterbury\u2019s Stained Glass Heritage | Canterbury Cathedral<\/a> and please email archives@canterbury-cathedral.org<\/a> to book, or to enquire about a bursary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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A panel from the ‘Kent window’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

For the joint Brook Rural Museum<\/strong> and CKHH Annual Michael Nightingale Memorial Lecture<\/strong>, which in 2025 will take place on Tuesday 23rd September<\/strong>, it is brilliant to be able to announce that it will be given by Victoria Stevens<\/strong>, an alumna of Canterbury Christ Church, a recipient of a grant from the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate Award<\/strong> and a member of the Kent History Postgraduates<\/strong>. Victoria is head of conservation at West Dean College <\/strong>near Chichester, as well as having worked in heritage, including for a rural museum. In her lecture she will give us insights into this expanding field involving conservation where material culture and usage come together in practical terms, as well as thinking theoretically for both practitioners and audiences. I appreciate that this seems a long way off, but please do save the date and we shall look forward to welcoming you to CCCU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we are on the subject of lectures, I thought I would just mention that I\u2019ll be giving the Canterbury<\/strong> branch of the Historical Association\u2019s<\/strong> Annual Lyle Lecture<\/strong> on Thursday 6<\/strong> February<\/strong> in the Clagett Auditorium of Canterbury Cathedral. Bearing in mind Lawrence Lyle <\/strong>worked on and was a great advocate of Canterbury\u2019s and the wider county\u2019s history, as well as the topical interest in migration, I shall be speaking on Canterbury and Kent as a gateway city and county in the 15th<\/sup> century when it was economic and social rather than religious issues that brought people from the continental mainland. If this sounds interesting, it will be great to see you there.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One of the many medieval buildings in Faversham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Then as part of the Magna Carta Anniversary<\/strong> event at Faversham<\/strong>, I\u2019ll be speaking in the town on \u2018Medieval Faversham\u2019 on Saturday 14 June<\/strong> at 2pm. This is not the only occasion members of the Centre will be giving public lectures, and I understand Kieron Hoyle<\/strong> will be speaking again at Dover<\/strong>, while Dr Claire Bartram<\/strong> will be giving a lecture at the MEMS seminar <\/strong>at the University of Kent on Thursday 27 March<\/strong>. Furthermore, both Claire <\/strong>and Kieron<\/strong> will be giving papers at the Society of Renaissance Studies<\/strong> conference at the University of Bristol<\/strong> in July<\/strong>. Nor is Kieron the only Kent History Postgraduate<\/strong> who will be giving such a conference presentation in 2025. This is not an exhaustive list but does include Dr Dean Irwin<\/strong>, Lizzie Burton<\/strong>, Jason Mazzocchi<\/strong> and Abi Kingsnorth<\/strong>, and I\u2019m sure the list will lengthen over the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other dates for the diary include the Gender and Medieval Studies conference<\/strong>, which is an itinerant conference, in 2024 at the University of Lincoln, last at CCCU in 2017 with the resulting book two years later. This year in Canterbury it will start on Wednesday 2 July<\/strong> and conclude on Saturday 5 July,<\/strong> the day of the Medieval Pageant<\/strong>, so conference goers may want to stay on to see what has grown into a big medieval parade and associated workshops at many of Canterbury\u2019s historic buildings. Readers of the blog may remember that the CKHH<\/strong> has run family-friendly activities at St Paul\u2019s church<\/strong> in the last few years, while before that we were at the Greyfriars garden<\/strong> and before that the grounds of the castle keep<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to the conference, the theme for Canterbury will be \u2018Charity and Care\u2019<\/em> and the call for papers has just been launched and a copy of this will be on the CKHH website very shortly. Suffice to say here, as organisers we welcome multidisciplinary proposals from across medieval studies and potential topics range from \u2018religious devotion and almsgiving\u2019<\/em>, \u2018gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions\u2019<\/em>, \u2018charitable locations, whether institutions or care in the community\u2019<\/em>, \u2018charity in urban and rural domestic and other<\/em> settings<\/em>\u2019, and \u2018charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature\u2019<\/em>. Having worked in this field for many years, I shall be extremely interested to see the range of proposals for papers that I hope this will generate.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The works of mercy window, All Saints church, York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As some of our readers may remember, last year the Kent Maritime Communities<\/strong> project members held a study day in March at the Community Cinema in Dover Museum<\/strong>, involving those from the CKHH<\/strong> at CCCU and our partners, Drs Craig Lambert<\/strong> and Robert Blackmore <\/strong>from the University of Southampton. The project has moved on at pace since then and the manuscript of the book from the project has this week gone off to Boydell. All being well, this will lead to a book launch in Canterbury in the autumn but before that on Saturday 10 May<\/strong> the project\u2019s website will be launched at Dover Museum<\/strong>. This is extremely exciting, so please do save the date too and more details about the event will be available shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although not as far down the line as the Kent Maritime Communities book, we are heavily involved in 2 other publications which hopefully will be out by the end of the year. These are my contribution to the Gough Map project<\/strong>, which again will be marked by a book launch perhaps in Oxford the home of the Gough Map, and Dr Diane Heath\u2019s<\/strong> Skin and Bone, Wood and Stone<\/em> edited collection from her \u2018Medieval Animals Heritage\u2019 project conference that will include chapters on \u2018gigantic black dogs\u2019 and \u2018bagpipe-playing pigs\u2019 \u2013 what more could anyone ask for!<\/p>\n\n\n

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From Ripon (photo: Imogen Corrigan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As over the last few years, the CKHH has been part of the Medway History Showcase,<\/strong> which Peter<\/strong> and Jane Joyce<\/strong> have been heavily involved in organising, and it is the intention in 2025 to revitalise the companion event in east Kent, probably at Dover. This is only one of a number of knowledge exchange initiatives involving the Centre and among the organisations we are working with in Canterbury are St Thomas\u2019\/Eastbridge Hospital<\/strong>, St Dunstan\u2019s church<\/strong>, Canterbury Cathedral<\/strong>, and the Heritage lead on the City Council<\/strong>, as well as others in Maidstone<\/strong>, Dover, Sandwich, Tenterden<\/strong> and Rochester<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, I hope that you can see we are continuing to keep up the momentum in terms of exploring the county\u2019s history and bringing these results to as wide an audience as we can. Furthermore, such activities provide opportunities for students, from 1st<\/sup> year undergraduate to doctoral level to take part, meet experts, gain experience and enhance their skills in history and heritage within a friendly and supportive environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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