local and regional history
Articles tagged with the category: local and regional history
Tudors and Stuarts, and Paul Bennett’s retirement
1 October 2020
I thought I would begin this week with the news that I am now only a couple of speakers short for the virtual Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend on Saturday…
Rochester, ‘history from below’ – more exciting developments
24 September 2020
As the week before teaching officially commences, this has been a week of meetings for Freshers Week as well as other activities linked in various ways to the Centre. For…
Lossenham project – exciting new development
16 September 2020
More excellent news, congratulations all round to Lily who is now officially Dr Lily Hawker-Yates because her internal examiner has signed off her corrections and her doctoral thesis is thus…
History Weekend 2021 and Kent History Postgraduates
10 September 2020
Stop press – Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend moved to the weekend of Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March 2021, and, as I said last week, it will be a…
A Milestone in Kent History and Heritage
3 September 2020
This is the Centre’s 300th blog! To mark this splendid milestone, I thought I would reflect on the Centre’s achievements since the blog started almost six years ago in October…
Celebrating Centre exhibitions and the Kent History Postgraduates
26 August 2020
The Centre’s blog is back! I’ll be featuring the Kent History Postgraduates Group shortly, but first I thought I would give you some news and highlight what the Centre’s team…
Kent History Postgraduates and retiring academics
30 July 2020
As well as being the feast day of St Calimerius – a 3rd-century bishop of Milan, persecuted and killed by being flung head first into a well, and invoked against…
Maritime Matters – Kent and over seas
23 July 2020
As a follow up to last week, I thought I would just mention that my hard copy of The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400–1800, edited by Claire…
Kent History Postgraduates, Maritime Kent, and Canterbury matters
16 July 2020
Just to say thank you very much and more ‘animals’ have been making their way to Dr Diane Heath’s door, including several dragons, a stag, a pig, a bee, an…
Becket, Canterbury and helping communities
8 July 2020
Dr Diane Heath is in the process of ‘building’ the ‘medieval tile’ floor. So if you want to help her by providing your ‘medieval animal tile’ design, even if you…
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