local and regional history
Articles tagged with the category: local and regional history
Featuring ‘Dover at Night’ and Canterbury Pilgrimage
8 March 2025
We’ll be back at Dover, physically this week on Friday for the ‘Dover at Night’ festival around the town, and because that will form the main part of this week’s…
Royalty, gentry and saints – Kent today and in the past
27 February 2025
As a carryover from last week, I thought I would mention very briefly three meetings I was involved in. Firstly, on Monday I had an online meeting of the Lossenham…
Kent’s Maritime Communities – past, present and future
12 February 2025
This week it is great to be able to feature one of the CKHH’s Kent History Postgraduates. Grace Conium Parsonage recently submitted her doctoral thesis and has just started in…
Immigration and innovation – what history has to offer
7 February 2025
Firstly, thanks very much to those who came to the Canterbury Historical Association Lyle Lecture last night (Thursday), which honours Marjorie and Lawrence Lyle, absolute stalwarts of so many organisations…
Crossing the Channel in times past – goods, people and ideas
30 January 2025
As a start this week, I thought I would mention that there is an advert in the February edition of the BBC History magazine for the Tudors and Stuarts History…
The CKHH in 2025
8 January 2025
First of all, Happy New Year to readers of the CKHH blog and we hope you continue to enjoy following our activities during the coming year.
Top Ten of 2024
17 December 2024
As promised for this week I’m going to offer what I think were the CKHH highlights of 2024. This year I’m going to try a thematic approach for at least…
Canterbury’s story gardens in development
11 December 2024
This is going to be a very short blog for a change because I’ll use next week to give a round-up of the highlights of 2024. Then the blog will…
Abi Kingsnorth and Broadside Ballads
27 November 2024
Before I get to Abi’s presentation today, which will be the main focus this week, I just want to mention three other events since the end of last week that…
St Albans Court and Becket Miracle Window
19 November 2024
This week will give me a chance to catch up with what has been happening concerning the CKHH, which means I have two events to cover: Victoria Stevens’ presentation at…
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