Articles from 2016
December
Kent History Centre events in 2017
29 December 2016
So what is there to look forward to from the Centre in the first half of 2017? The flagship event will be the ‘Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend’ between Friday…
Reviewing Kent History and Heritage Centre
22 December 2016
I thought that this week and next would follow the example of the Roman god Janus and look back this week and forward next week into 2017. Consequently, the blog…
Canterbury Christmastide
15 December 2016
In some ways the theme this week is the distinctive nature of Kent culture, or at least that the particular nature of the county led to the production of a…
An Archaeologist’s Tale – Canterbury and Libya
9 December 2016
For those of you who were not at Paul Bennett’s inaugural professorial lecture last Tuesday, I thought I would let you know that Professor Louise Wilkinson is joining Jackie Eales…
Kent’s History and Heritage – working together
4 December 2016
You might say this week that the theme is working with others, whether this involves archaeology or history. However, before I get down to reporting what has been happening I…
November
Reflections on lectures from Professor Robert Tittler and Tim Tatton-Brown
25 November 2016
It is always interesting to hear what various members of the School of Humanities are doing in terms of Kent History and Heritage and I happened to see both Dr…
Canterbury curiosities
17 November 2016
The relaunch of the Centre for Kent History and Heritage is now just over a fortnight away and it will be great to hear Paul Bennett’s inaugural professorial lecture entitled…
Names and Drama in Kent and Canterbury
12 November 2016
This has been an excellent week in terms of lectures and conferences. On Wednesday evening, the second of the Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society’s winter programme of lectures took place…
Kent and Canterbury Projects
4 November 2016
Firstly, very briefly, we are now just over a week away from the joint all-day conference on ‘Names: Kent Places and People’ that will take place in Powell Lecture theatre…
October
Material Culture explored in Canterbury and London
28 October 2016
This has been a quiet week from the perspective of lectures and similar events in or about Canterbury, although, of course, the Canterbury Festival walks on behalf of Canterbury Archaeological…
Norman and Bronze Age warriors
21 October 2016
Wednesday saw two events linked to History at Canterbury Christ Church. The first was the presentation of the John and Peggy Hayes Canterbury Award to Paul Bennett as Director of…
Future Centre and History events
14 October 2016
I thought I would start this week by again drawing your attention to the showcase event that the Centre is planning in 2017 in case there are any new readers…
Kent castles and Faversham wall paintings
7 October 2016
Firstly, a couple of notices, and I’ll be giving more information next week about the Centre’s joint conference with Kent Archaeological Society on ‘Place Names and Family Names’. This conference…
September
Centre events in Canterbury
30 September 2016
Firstly, thank you to everyone who has been in contact with Ruth Duckworth using the [email protected] email address to register their interest in the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend next…
Nightingale Lecture: Brook and Canterbury
23 September 2016
In many ways, both events I’m talking about this week can be seen as a legacy of the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. The first took place in St Martin’s Priory, the…
Dover and Canterbury
16 September 2016
Progress on the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend website continues but is not quite finished. Consequently, this week I am going to concentrate on a fascinating lecture I heard last…
Early Medieval Kent and future events
11 September 2016
First of all this week I should like to thank those who have been in touch about when the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend details will be up on the…
Archaeologists and conservators at Canterbury Cathedral
2 September 2016
Before I move to the main section of the blog this week, I thought I would alert readers to a new blog that is be launched on Monday 5 September…
August
Exploring Canterbury Christ Church campus
26 August 2016
The first weekend in September will see the Society for Church Archaeology’s conference on ‘Church and Industry’ at Canterbury Christ Church.
Medieval and Tudor Kent – more news
17 August 2016
Returning to the maritime theme of a couple of weeks ago for both the late medieval and early modern periods, I thought I would showcase four representations of ships this…
Tudors and Stuarts at Canterbury – more news
11 August 2016
Moving to mid-August and it remains a quiet time in the academic year before the ‘A’ level results appear and universities endeavour to attract even more students through ‘clearing’.
Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend in Canterbury 2017
5 August 2016
The first week in August is a pretty quiet time at universities generally because the early summer academic conference season is over and doesn’t start up again until the beginning…
July
Canterbury and Maritime Kent
29 July 2016
I called in at the Box Office in Augustine House this week to leave more leaflets for the Early Medieval Kent conference – Ruth Duckworth had run out there, and…
Centre for Kent History and Heritage future events
21 July 2016
Due to the unusually long blog post last week – there had been just so many exciting events going on – I’m going to keep it shorter this week and…
Canterbury, Rochester and Early Medieval Kent
16 July 2016
July is major month for academic conferences and, as I mentioned last week, several members of the Centre were at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds a couple of weeks…
Canterbury Castle, Pageant and St Mildred’s church
9 July 2016
Today saw most of the medievalists from Canterbury Christ Church at the city’s castle for the first Medieval Pageant and Family Trail day under the leadership of Professor Louise Wilkinson.…
June
Medieval Pageant celebrates Canterbury
28 June 2016
Now for something a bit different, as they say, in that staff from the Centre don’t just reach out to adults through conferences, workshops, study days and the like, but…
Richborough through the Ages
26 June 2016
Keeping with the idea of excitement at conferences among participants – speakers and audience, yesterday I was at the Centre’s ‘Richborough through the Ages’ conference, hence the photo above. Perhaps…
Canterbury Medieval and Early Modern Studies
18 June 2016
I thought this week I would provide photos from two events that I attended over the last three days because they involved several people – staff and students – from…
Canterbury masons and medieval women
9 June 2016
This week I’m going to try something a bit different and give you four images rather than the usual one on the grounds that an image is often said to…
Tunbridge Wells and Canterbury churches
3 June 2016
I’m going to begin with a couple of buildings, although I’ll save Canterbury Cathedral’s great south window until next week except I will thank Heather Newton for showing me around…
May
Shakespeare, lighthouses and the sea
25 May 2016
I’m going to keep to a maritime theme this week. Firstly Dr Martin Watt’s one-day conference on ‘Richborough through the Ages’ has now sold over seventy-five tickets which is excellent.…
Kent, Ghent and a Canterbury medieval hospital
19 May 2016
I thought I would start this week by noting that it is just over five weeks now to the one-day conference on ‘Richborough through the Ages’. Tickets are continuing to…
Canterbury Queen and Wye College
13 May 2016
Even though Canterbury Cathedral’s status as a royal mausoleum is not great, it does commemorate an extremely interesting queen, as Dr Eleanor Woodacre (University of Winchester) reminded her audience at…
Canterbury and London Revelry
8 May 2016
I’m delighted to report that ‘Richborough through the Ages’ has over 60 people coming to it, but there are still spaces on Saturday 25 June so do have a look…
April
Canterbury and Hythe – more Kentish treasures
30 April 2016
This week has finally seen my return to preparing an article on businesswomen in fifteenth-century Canterbury that I haven’t really had a chance to work on since late last year.…
Magna Carta, Shakespeare and Witches
21 April 2016
I thought I would start this week by giving you an update on the ‘legacy’ of the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, because apart from Matthew Crockatt’s excellent gallery of photos and…
Kent’s Medieval Heritage
15 April 2016
I thought I would begin this week with a couple of notices that involve events linked to the Centre, although before that I’ll just mention that Matthew Crockatt has given…
Medieval Canterbury and London
8 April 2016
To keep up the momentum, I thought I would add a second post this week as a way of getting up-to-date. Moreover, having attended the Chaucer Lecture at the University…
Medieval Canterbury Weekend
4 April 2016
I thought I would start with an apology for not writing the blog last week but I was somewhat busy and time just disappeared as it is inclined to do.…
March
Chaucer’s Canterbury and Shakespeare’s Dover
22 March 2016
I thought I would keep it short this week, not least because I’m pretty busy doing things for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. Just in case you have missed this the…
Canterbury Manuscript and Plantagenet Princesses
19 March 2016
Another busy week at Canterbury Christ Church because on Wednesday Dr Michael (Mike) Bintley gave a paper to the staff and postgraduates in Humanities in St Martin’s Priory and then…
Pilgrims and Warfare at Canterbury
11 March 2016
To a degree I’ll be roving around this week in that I’ll be looking briefly at medieval pilgrimage after mentioning a rather splendid cavalry officer from Cornwall who fought at…
Canterbury before the Normans
5 March 2016
This week has seen the ‘Richborough through the Ages’ conference details and booking information go up on the Centre’s webpages and more preparations for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, including Diane…
February
Archaeology in Canterbury and Kent
27 February 2016
I decided to leave the blog this week until today because I wanted to highlight a lecture that took place this evening at Canterbury Christ Church. For years Dr Paul…
Richborough and Canterbury
19 February 2016
This has been another busy week regarding putting arrangements in place for the ‘Richborough through the Ages’ conference that will take place at Old Sessions House, Canterbury Christ Church on…
From Iron Age helmet to ‘The Great Bible’
15 February 2016
This week has seen more activity regarding publicity and arrangements for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. In addition Dr Martin Watts has been finalising details for the one-day conference on ‘Richborough…
Michael Hicks at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend
15 February 2016
In contrast to the previous fortnight, this week has been much quieter with regard to history lectures open to the public, except for Dr Martin Watts’ talk at St Peter’s…
Medieval Canterbury and Northampton
15 February 2016
This week I have returned to the Middle Ages, not least because it is the Becket Lecture tomorrow evening, beginning at 6pm, wine from 5.30. The lecture will be in…
January
‘The Gospels of St Augustine of Canterbury’: A Gift from Rome to Canterbury
27 January 2016
O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale The ‘warm South’ was Keats’ evocative phrase for…
Restoration Canterbury and Tunbridge Wells
27 January 2016
Normally I would not associate January with a great crop of lectures, but this January has been exceptional. Indeed there have been so many that last night brought the Anselm…
Ian Coulson and William Urry
18 January 2016
As a medievalist, I’m very interested in memory, memorials and commemoration (as readers of this blog may have gathered from previous posts!), but even though there are in many ways…
Chaucer’s Pilgrims and the Becket Lecture
12 January 2016
Earlier this week I was pleasantly surprised to see Dr Ryan Perry (University of Kent) on the BBC regional news talking about William Caxton’s printed version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales,…
Becket, Pilgrims and Canterbury
12 January 2016
About this time last year I was musing about Archbishop Sudbury and the subject of commemoration, a fitting topic for the last week in December. This year I’m going to…
Ian Coulson and Kent
12 January 2016
Today I’m going to begin at the end and work backwards, and the particular end I’m focusing on is that of a very good friend of the Centre, as he…
Canterbury, the Centre and knitting
12 January 2016
Now that the Canterbury Christ Church campus is almost deserted, the students having finished last Friday and only a few stalwarts in the School still working in their offices today,…
Canterbury and the Battle of Agincourt
12 January 2016
Two nights ago I attended Dr David Grummitt’s lecture to Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society at Canterbury Christ Church. The Society’s committee had decided to use the three autumn meetings…
Dover and Canterbury – bringing history and archaeology together
12 January 2016
Again there may be others within the Centre who will be giving lectures to interest groups in Kent over the next couple of months, but I thought I would just…
Rochester and Canterbury
12 January 2016
I believe several staff members have been out in the county giving lectures to local history groups during November. Among these are John Bulaitis at Whitstable, Lesley Hardy at Lyminge,…
Kent’s Historical and Archaeological Heritage
12 January 2016
Among the initiatives at the Centre I thought I would mention this week is Drs Lesley Hardy and Mike Bintley’s community project on ‘Finding Eanswith’, which is a follow-up to…
Canterbury Cathedral, Lympne and the Kentish Marshlands
12 January 2016
Since the last post I have been out and about in Canterbury, Folkestone and Lympne. Paul Bennett, Director of Canterbury Archaeological Trust, and I have been discussing religious houses and…
Richborough and Lyminge – exploring the past
12 January 2016
Having had a meeting today with Drs Martin Watts and John Bulaitis regarding the feasibility of putting on a one-day conference on the development of Richborough, especially its role as…
Dover’s St Thomas and the Citadel
12 January 2016
Before I get to what I have been doing this week, I thought I would mention that Dr Martin Watts has been continuing to work on Richborough’s role in the…
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