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Kent & Canterbury History and Heritage: for news of events and features by Sheila Sweetinburgh
Keeping with the spirit of the Centre for Kent History and Heritage’s (CKHH) blog that ran for over a decade, I thought it would be a good idea to restart a similar style blog under a new name. If you would like to explore the back catalogue, please feel free to do so here and I hope you will find things of interest and that you will similarly enjoy the new blog.
Going forward, rather than weekly, I’m intending to provide two blogs a month. Among other matters, these will feature forthcoming outreach events linked to Kent MEMS and CAMEMS, starting with the 2025 Michael Nightingale Memorial Lecture, which is a free, open lecture – see 1st blog for details. Moreover, as a medieval lecturer associated with Kent MEMS, a CAMEMS trustee and someone who has worked primarily on Kent’s medieval and Tudor past, I shall continue to provide you, gentle reader of the blog, with what I hope are interesting research findings on the history and heritage of Canterbury and the county more widely.
CAMEMS
For those new to CAMEMS, this is the Canterbury Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies which aims to aid postgraduates financially working in the field of medieval and early modern studies. Initially for students studying at the University of Kent for the MEMS MA, the aim is to extend this in future to aid doctoral students through the proceeds from outreach events and donations.
Please see: www.camems.org.uk/community/camems-20688/home/ for the website.
CAMEMS works in tandem with the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, (Kent MEMS) to offer history and heritage events, which from 2026 will include the annual alternating Medieval Canterbury Weekend and Tudors & Stuarts Weekend.
From the start in 2016, these History Weekends were designed to offer new historical findings in a friendly and accessible way, thereby providing opportunities for people to meet experts in a wide range of historical fields.
More information about Kent MEMS is here: https://research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-early-modern-studies so please do have a look.
Latest Articles
Saintly Archbishops and Pastoral Care texts – exploring the Middle Ages
27 September 2026
For this second, much shorter blog of the week as a way of getting up to date, the two events are John Manley’s presentation to the Kent History Postgraduates group…
Nightingale Lecture 26 plus
23 September 2026
Having just received this very sad news, I want to pass it on to readers of the KCHH blog because Prof. Paul Bennett was such a great person in so…
Fifteenth Century conference in Canterbury
10 September 2026
The major report this time is on the highly successful Fifteenth Century conference that took place at the University of Kent during the latter part of last week. However, before…