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Celebrating Canterbury conferences and Paul Bennett MBE
20 June 2017
I’m going to start this week with some news. Many of you will know Paul Bennett or have read about him in various blogs over the last couple of years,…
Tudors and Stuarts Weekend
4 April 2017
Before I come to the Tudors and Stuarts Weekend, I thought I would mention the ‘Family and Power in the Middle Ages’ conference that will be taking place on Friday…
Norman landscapes in Normandy, Kent and Derbyshire
17 March 2017
We are now just a fortnight away from the Tudors and Stuarts Weekend and excitement is growing as we look forward to welcoming speakers such as Alison Weir, David Starkey,…
Canterbury’s changing landscape – telling tales
2 March 2017
It is often said, that in terms of Canterbury’s historic built environment the City Council in the post WWII years was far more effective in finishing off what the Luftwaffe…
Canterbury Museum – at a crossroads
23 February 2017
Due to it being half-term last week, I took the opportunity to visit the Canterbury Heritage Museum because now it is shut again for another month until the Easter holidays.…
Museum of Canterbury – exciting opportunity
10 February 2017
This week I have been to two meetings among other things, and, although they may seem very different, they actually have common themes such as the value of bringing archaeology…
Canterbury’s History and Heritage
27 January 2017
This week has brought to the fore some different issues, albeit underpinning many of the lectures and discussions has again been the value to society of knowing and understanding the…
Famous people in Canterbury: St Thomas and others
7 January 2017
Next week is the ‘Gender, Places, Spaces, and Thresholds’ conference that Dr Diane Heath is running for the Centre at Canterbury Christ Church – for details see: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/research-kent-history-and-archaeology/crkha-latest-projects/place-space-and-liminalities.aspx but I…
Kent History Centre events in 2017
29 December 2016
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…
Reviewing Kent History and Heritage Centre
22 December 2016
I thought that this week and next would follow the example of the Roman god Janus and look back this week and forward next week into 2017. Consequently, the blog…
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