Tudors
Articles tagged with the category: Tudors
Churchwardens’ accounts – from Canterbury to Bristol and back again
21 December 2017
For the Christmas and New Year fortnight I’ll take the opportunity to play Janus and look back over the past year before turning to the exciting new projects and events…
Attracting youngsters to history and Hayes Award winner
2 December 2017
This week saw the awarding of the John and Peggy Hayes Canterbury Award for publications on the history of the city, and this year the recipient is Professor David Birmingham…
Rivers and the sea – from Rochester to Canterbury
18 November 2017
Next week will bring the first Chatham Historic Dockyard conference at which Dr Martin Watts (CCCU lecturer and member of the Centre) will be speaking on ‘Chatham Dockyard at the…
Trees, pigs and The Charter of the Forest
12 November 2017
It has been another busy week with several lectures, meetings, a workshop and planning for future events. Of the lectures, I’ll give a short report on Professor David Carpenter’s talk…
From Roman to Reformation Canterbury
2 November 2017
As we are now in November, I thought I would start off this week with news of the Centre’s three evening lectures this month and next, two of which are…
Alfred Smyth, Tim Tatton-Brown and Norman Canterbury
28 October 2017
Even though it is a couple of weeks away, I thought I would draw your attention to the Centre’s next joint evening lecture with the Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust…
Tradescants, Canterbury and garden history
8 October 2017
This week I decided to wait until after the Garden History Study Day yesterday to write the blog, but before I get to that I just want to announce that…
Hops in history – Nightingale Lecture and Ian Coulson Awards
30 September 2017
This week has brought the start of the academic year, I hope the final touches to the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2018 webpages so that they can go live next week…
Maritime Kent – place-names, sea songs and Anglo-Saxon ‘invaders’
22 August 2017
Keeping with the maritime theme, at least for part of this blog, I thought I would report on a presentation I went to last Saturday at the Beaney in Canterbury.…
Burial mounds, workhouses and maritime Kent
28 July 2017
Having had a number of meetings this week about prospective Centre events for 2018, I thought I would just mention them before reporting on the last of the Kent History…
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