In addition, I want to thank Matthew Crockatt for adding Tudors and Stuarts 2019 to the Centre\u2019s website where you can see more on the speakers and students – the Welcome Team, as part of Matthew\u2019s photo gallery. The souvenir brochure is also available to download, please see: https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/arts-and-humanities\/research-kent-history-and-archaeology\/tudors-and-stuarts-weekend-2019\/home.aspx<\/a> . Moreover, thanks once again to our speakers, some of whom gave their time and expertise freely, and to our great audiences, we should be able to add about \u00a36,500 to the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate Award fund. This is another fantastic achievement \u2013 those of us at the Centre are extremely grateful and delighted that we will be able to continue to support CCCU postgraduates researching Kent history topics.<\/p>\n Looking at St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral from the CCCU campus<\/p>\n This week brings the Arts & Humanities Faculty conference, more on that below, as well as the launch today [1st<\/sup> May] of the Heritage A \u2013 Z masterminded by Professor Peter Vujakovic with help from Matthew Crockatt to get it set up on the CCCU website. This will come out daily, much like an Advent calendar, and will showcase aspects of Canterbury\u2019s UNESCO World Heritage Site, comprising St Martin\u2019s church, St Augustine\u2019s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. \u2018A\u2019 is for St Augustine and has been written by Revd Dr Jeremy Law, Dean of the Chapel of Canterbury Christ Church University. If you want to have a look at this and subsequent pieces, please follow:<\/p>\n https:\/\/medium.com\/the-christ-church-heritage-a-to-z<\/a> which will give you lots of fascinating and exciting details about the Site, the people who made it and what is here today.<\/p>\n St Martin’s church with its English yew trees in the ancient churchyard<\/p>\n Canterbury Christ Church University is proud to be leading this initiative because the university campus is within the outer precinct of St Augustine\u2019s Abbey, as well as being delighted to work with partners such as English Heritage, the parish of St Martin\u2019s, the King\u2019s School and the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral. The Canterbury UNESCO Site is celebrating its 30th<\/sup> anniversary and as part of the festivities there will be a 2-day conference on Friday 24th<\/sup> and Saturday 25th<\/sup> May to explore Canterbury\u2019s heritage and to consider how it can be sustained for future generations. Among the distinguished speakers on the Friday will be Chris Blandford, President of World Heritage UK; Jane Gibson, Durham World Heritage Site Co-ordinator, and Neil McCollum, Head of Historic Properties Kent English Heritage; while on the Saturday CCCU will be welcoming Dr Charles Insley, Head of History at Manchester University; Dr Charlotte Young, and Heather Newton, Head of Conservation at Canterbury Cathedral, with Sarah Turner, Collections Manager at the cathedral. To book and for more details about the conference and accompanying Light Show at St Augustine\u2019s Abbey on the Friday evening, please check the website at https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/unesco-conference<\/a> or call 01227 782994.<\/p>\n In addition, people are most welcome to take part in the St Augustine\u2019s Feast Day service on Thursday 23rd<\/sup> May and the accompanying Procession from St Martin\u2019s church to Canterbury Cathedral Chapter House. This will begin at 5.30pm and should be finished by 6.45pm. This is a free event and we should be delighted to see you for these celebrations.<\/p>\n Diane Heath’s pop-up banner on Faversham Abbey’s ‘Book of the Dead’ borrowed from the ‘Medieval Faversham’ exhibition<\/p>\n Next Wednesday will provide a early opportunity to discover more about the UNESCO site because at 6pm (wine reception from 5.30pm) Paul Bennett (Director of Canterbury Archaeological Trust) will give a free, open lecture as Visiting Professor of Archaeology in Old Sessions. His title is \u2018The Canterbury World Heritage site \u2013 an archaeological perspective\u2019 \u2013 do come along, booking not required.<\/p>\n To return to the Faculty conference, which will also be a short report, representatives from the Centre for Kent History and Heritage took part in Panel 3: Enterprise, which drew on the \u2018Medieval Faversham\u2019 exhibition that had been created in 2018 to showcase Faversham Town Council\u2019s new Heritage Hub. Some of you may remember this from last summer, especially Diane\u2019s and Dr Harriet Kersey\u2019s Young Medievalists\u2019 Corner where the young and the not so young made \u2018Anglo-Saxon\u2019 brooches, \u2018medieval\u2019 tiles and other imitation artefacts as a way of engaging interest in the town\u2019s long and colourful history \u2013 from King Stephen and Queen Matilda to the town\u2019s prophetic chronicle and a fight over the burial of a Faversham parishioner.<\/p>\n Also displayed today, Harriet Kersey’s pop-up banner on Faversham’s charter from Henry VIII<\/p>\n Thus the short presentation today discussed how the outreach project team of Diane Heath and me, with the help of Harriet Kersey, a doctoral History student (now a post-doc), and led by Professor Louise Wilkinson with Faversham Town Council (and sponsored by Swale District Council through their Heritage Grants scheme) worked to produce an exhibition on \u2018Medieval Faversham\u2019 that included several workshops for \u2018Young Medievalists\u2019 and several talks. 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