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Mapping and Medieval Animals – an exciting Easter

5 April 2023

For this short lead-up to the Easter Weekend, I’m going to begin with two items relating to the Kent Maps Online project run by Professor Carolyn Oulton, Michelle Crowther and…

More Tudors and Stuarts 2023 and material culture

29 March 2023

As I said last week, I’ll use these two blogs to weave my way through the amazing lectures we have for Tudors & Stuarts 2023 this year. So if you…

Tudors & Stuarts 2023 and other centuries – celebrating diversity

23 March 2023

As we are just over a month away from the Tudors & Stuarts 2023 History Weekend, I thought I would use part of the blog this week and next week…

Researching Kent History – sharing exciting discoveries

9 March 2023

This week I want to draw you attention to a couple of ‘call for papers’ opportunities, but first I thought I would mention the ‘Church, Saints and Seals, 1150–1300’ study…

Canterbury – medieval hospitals and Tudors & Stuarts 2023

2 March 2023

Before I get to Tudors & Stuarts 2023, as well as Dr John Williams’ FCAT/CKHH lecture, an exciting meeting that took in TWO medieval hospitals, while Dr Diane Heath took…

Medieval Animals Heritage and Exploring the Lives of People in the Past

23 February 2023

I thought I would start with a couple of things from Dr Diane Heath’s NHLF-funded ‘Medieval Animals Heritage’ project. Firstly, she said they had a great time in Canterbury Cathedral…

Kent’s Material Culture – from relics to texts

17 February 2023

Some of you may remember the NHLF-funded ‘Finding Eanswythe’ project that was run by people from History and Archaeology at CCCU with Dr Andrew Richardson: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/st-eanswythe-found-folkestones-anglo-saxon-saint/ Well the same team…

Getting involved in Kent History projects

9 February 2023

Before I get to Professor Ken Dark’s KAS/CKHH lecture and the Kent History Postgraduates catch-up meeting, I thought I would draw your attention to the ‘Church, Saints and Seals, 1150–1300’…

Exploring Past Lives in Kent and Canterbury

1 February 2023

I thought that I would share some very exciting news with you. This week marks the launch of a new website at https://maritimebritain.org/ that features two innovative projects, and for…

Canterbury History – from St Augustine to Tudors and Stuarts 2023

26 January 2023

Coming up very shortly KAS with CKHH on Tuesday 7 February will be hosting at St Paul’s church, Canterbury CT1 1NH (from 6pm, lecture at 6.45pm), Professor Ken Dark’s lecture…