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History and heritage in Kent and beyond

21 March 2024

Before we reach ‘Migrants, Merchants and Mariners in the Kentish Cinque Ports, c.1400-c.1600’ at Dover Museum on Saturday, which will be in the blog next week, this week has seen…

Turning the spotlight on the past: investigating Canterbury and Kent

12 March 2024

Before I come to what has been happening this week, I thought I would start with a quick reminder about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 and to say that tickets…

Aphra Behn and other Inspirational Kent Women Writers

6 March 2024

As promised, I’ll come to the ‘Inspirational Kent Women Writers’ conference from last Saturday in a minute, but as a final reminder it will be the second part this coming…

Kent’s material culture – in stone, stained glass and early books

1 March 2024

This week has seen final preparations for the first of the ‘Inspirational Kent Women Writers’ events, the conference on Saturday. This means there will be a report in the blog…

Medieval Canterbury Weekend – two months away

22 February 2024

I thought I would start with the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 because it seems some people are finding that the canterbury.ac.uk/medieval-canterbury link is taking them to last year’s History Weekend…

Kent women in history – widows and writers

15 February 2024

This week has been more meetings, as well as teaching, of course, but I did manage an afternoon in Canterbury Cathedral Archives which I’ll come to in a minute as…

Exploring material culture in the past at Canterbury and Dover

7 February 2024

I’ll feature the lectures given by the three scholars called Chris at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 in a minute, but I thought I would mention here that the Annual…

Different voices – researching the past in Kent

31 January 2024

I thought I would start this week by saying that the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 is continuing to take a good number of bookings each week and it all looks…

Congratulations Matthew, plus future CKHH events

26 January 2024

As eagle-eyed readers of the CKHH blog will have noticed, this week it is coming out much later than usual. This is because I wanted to lead with the winner…

Researching Kent’s colourful history – from mariners to lawyers

18 January 2024

Great to see that there is an appetite for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 and I’m pleased to report that ticket sales have started well. If you are new to…