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Shipbuilding at Chatham with Canterbury Expo

12 November 2024

This week I’m going to leave Victoria Stevens‘ presentation on her completed MA thesis and the trip to the Canterbury Glass Studio until next week and instead bring you the…

More Tudors and Stuarts 2025

6 November 2024

Next week I’ll be bringing reports from Kieron Hoyle and Jason Mazzocchi on the ‘Shipbuilding’ conference at Chatham Dockyard, the Canterbury Expo, Victoria Stevens on her MA topic (please note…

500th blog – from Yorkshire to Somerset

1 November 2024

In some ways it seems fitting that the 500th blog has the Centre for Kent History and Heritage (CKHH) even busier than ever. Furthermore, programme details of all the events…

Kent: Hop-picking and Dover’s Maison Dieu

24 October 2024

This is yet again a busy week for staff and postgraduates associated with CKHH – as well as Kent, I’ll be in Yorkshire and Somerset, which means paradoxically I’m intending…

Looking forward – Tudors and Stuarts 2025

16 October 2024

It’s another busy week for CKHH in that on Monday one of the Kent History Postgraduates stepped in at the last minute to provide a presentation for the Kent Archives…

MHS 24 and KAS Historic Buildings – the CKHH out and about in Kent

8 October 2024

Last Saturday was extremely busy for staff and postgraduates of the Centre for Kent History and Heritage because we were heavily involved in two major History events in Kent and…

Exploring Kent landscapes – from cliffs to castles

2 October 2024

Firstly, just a reminder that this Saturday it is the Medway History Showcase 24 at the Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham where Kieron Hoyle and Jason Mazzocchi will be looking after…

The Tithe War – Kent and England

25 September 2024

Final preparations have been taking place this week for the Society of Landscape Studies conference with which the Centre has been heavily involved. The conference on the Saturday is taking…

Nightingale lecture, Landscape conference and Behn project – exciting events

19 September 2024

It is now less than a week until the Nightingale Lecture and just over a week until the Society for Landscape Studies conference, with the following Saturday 5 October being…

Canterbury-exploring the city’s medieval history

12 September 2024

Now that we are into September, and more importantly I am back from the Fifteenth Century conference at St John’s College, Oxford, last week, I thought I would start with…