Articles from 2020
December
Canterbury, Tonbridge and Newenden – what riches!
17 December 2020
Another busy week but I thought I would start with the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend 2021 to say the web site has gone live for bookings, and Matthew will…
Becket, Canterbury – new, exciting research discoveries
11 December 2020
I thought I would first bring news of the next and hopefully last online events the Centre will be running as we inch towards getting back to physical rather than…
Thanet Earth and Kent History Postgraduates
4 December 2020
@BookcultureCCCU for Dr Claire Bartram’s ‘12 Days of CKHH Christmas’, and today we are on day three, so if you are on twitter, please do check it out, Claire will…
November
Celebrating Kentish Book Culture and other Centre matters
26 November 2020
Before I get to the main report this week on Dr Claire Bartram’s Kentish Book Culture online book launch, I thought I would draw your attention to the upcoming Annual…
Exploring Kent’s history, maritime, monasteries and medieval animals
18 November 2020
I will come to Jane’s presentation for the meeting of the Kent History Postgraduates Group shortly, but first I wanted to let you know about a few other matters involving…
Kentish Book Culture and Canterbury Historical Map
13 November 2020
Stop Press: the Centre’s first online event on Wednesday 25 November at 7pm, the FREE Kentish Book Culture book launch, is now up on the university’s website and can be…
New Centre pages and Kent History Postgraduates
5 November 2020
I thought I would just start with a couple of good news items, although, of course, the Kent History Postgraduates are always good news. Firstly, we have had several compliments…
October
Celebrating St Mildred and other Canterbury and Kent saints
29 October 2020
As well as containing large numbers of meetings yet again this week, it also included the pleasurable occasion when Dr Diane Heath and I handed over the pop-up banners on…
Future Centre events and Jews in medieval Kent
22 October 2020
Before I turn to the main event this week, the fortnightly meeting of the Kent History Postgraduates group and Dean’s presentation, I thought I would bring you up to date…
Ian Coulson Awards, Maritime Kent and Canterbury
13 October 2020
This week’s blog contains several items of good news, somewhat in contrast to the national situation. Firstly, it gives me great pleasure to record that Tracey Dessoy and Jane Richardson…
CKHH resources, Lossenham and Kent History Postgraduates
7 October 2020
I thought I would start with a very big ‘thank you’ to Michelle Crowther for setting up the CKHH Kent and Canterbury History Resources webpages from the information Dr Diane…
Tudors and Stuarts, and Paul Bennett’s retirement
1 October 2020
I thought I would begin this week with the news that I am now only a couple of speakers short for the virtual Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend on Saturday…
September
Rochester, ‘history from below’ – more exciting developments
24 September 2020
As the week before teaching officially commences, this has been a week of meetings for Freshers Week as well as other activities linked in various ways to the Centre. For…
Lossenham project – exciting new development
16 September 2020
More excellent news, congratulations all round to Lily who is now officially Dr Lily Hawker-Yates because her internal examiner has signed off her corrections and her doctoral thesis is thus…
History Weekend 2021 and Kent History Postgraduates
10 September 2020
Stop press – Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend moved to the weekend of Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March 2021, and, as I said last week, it will be a…
A Milestone in Kent History and Heritage
3 September 2020
This is the Centre’s 300th blog! To mark this splendid milestone, I thought I would reflect on the Centre’s achievements since the blog started almost six years ago in October…
August
Celebrating Centre exhibitions and the Kent History Postgraduates
26 August 2020
The Centre’s blog is back! I’ll be featuring the Kent History Postgraduates Group shortly, but first I thought I would give you some news and highlight what the Centre’s team…
Virtual ‘Becket’ Pavement – celebrating medieval animals
5 August 2020
As this is the last blog before its 2-week ‘vacacion’, I thought I would remind readers about the great opportunity for a part-funded MA by Research on a project based…
July
Kent History Postgraduates and retiring academics
30 July 2020
As well as being the feast day of St Calimerius – a 3rd-century bishop of Milan, persecuted and killed by being flung head first into a well, and invoked against…
Maritime Matters – Kent and over seas
23 July 2020
As a follow up to last week, I thought I would just mention that my hard copy of The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400–1800, edited by Claire…
Kent History Postgraduates, Maritime Kent, and Canterbury matters
16 July 2020
Just to say thank you very much and more ‘animals’ have been making their way to Dr Diane Heath’s door, including several dragons, a stag, a pig, a bee, an…
Becket, Canterbury and helping communities
8 July 2020
Dr Diane Heath is in the process of ‘building’ the ‘medieval tile’ floor. So if you want to help her by providing your ‘medieval animal tile’ design, even if you…
History Postgraduates and Canterbury Medieval Pageant
3 July 2020
Dr Diane Heath and I will be delighted to receive photos of your medieval animal ‘tile’ designs, so please do send them in and we will send out your certificate.…
June
Virtual Canterbury Medieval Pageant
29 June 2020
Gingerbread Medieval Animal Tiles – We Need your Help, Please!
Medieval Pageant and schooling now and then
24 June 2020
Having caught up with Dr Claire Bartram, as Co-Director of the Centre, and Dr Diane Heath, the Centre’s Research Fellow, I thought I would report on their involvement with the…
Kent History Postgraduates and late medieval Sandwich
18 June 2020
I thought I would begin by reporting that we sent our roundup of pre-modern Kent and Canterbury online resources to Dr David Rundle on Monday and hopefully soon it will…
MEMS Lib and Canterbury rebels
10 June 2020
This week I thought I would start with a collaboration between the Centre and MEMS at Kent as part of their new online initiative. Led by the Kent team comprising…
Kent History Postgraduates and food in the Middle Ages
4 June 2020
Before I get to the topic for this week – food and its uses in medieval Kent, I thought I would flag up an initiative by the Graduate College if…
May
Exploring book culture and the Gough Map
28 May 2020
I thought I would start this week by telling you about an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in the History of the Book and who would like to…
Maritime Kent and other research topics
20 May 2020
This week I thought I would catch up with what Dr Diane Heath has been doing recently, as well as where I and my fellow editors are with Maritime Kent.…
Exploring remembrance at Canterbury
13 May 2020
This week I thought I would take my cue from the events of last weekend and the idea of significant anniversaries – the international remembrance of VE Day 75 years…
Clocks and Kent History Postgraduates
7 May 2020
As we hopefully begin to get some idea of the government’s timetable and strategy regarding how to get out of lockdown, I thought this week I would use the idea…
April
Hospitals and the sick – then and now
29 April 2020
As we are almost into May and lockdown measures are still in place, I thought this week I would take the blog back into the Middle Ages, which I’m sure…
Book culture and Kent History Postgraduates
23 April 2020
Thanks firstly to Dr Diane Heath for last week’s blog, and today I thought I would start with Professor Louise Wilkinson’s virtual ‘Farewell’ last Friday where she was joined by…
Celebrating women – as queens and historians
16 April 2020
This blog appears in the final week of Professor Louise Wilkinson’s time at Canterbury before she takes up her new appointment at the University of Lincoln. I, Diane Heath, am…
Kent History Postgraduates and Wincheap
8 April 2020
With all Centre and other events in Canterbury cancelled until the autumn at the earliest, and even September may be in doubt – more news when matters become clearer; and…
Canterbury mazers – virtual material culture
1 April 2020
While governments – national, regional and local, continue to grapple with the situation, and a large number of businesses and charities are equally trying to manage, even survive – note,…
March
Negotiating spaces – today and in the past
25 March 2020
Although not quite changing decisively hour by hour, things do seem to be doing that on a daily basis as national leaders scramble to keep abreast of this pandemic in…
Challenging times today and in the past
17 March 2020
In this fast-moving world that we live in, I thought I would bring out a short update. For the health and safety of speakers, those attending, and all concerned, we…
Canterbury incidents – rats in organ pipes and marketing cold baths
14 March 2020
Currently CCCU is open, however, we have been informed that the higher powers will be making a decision about the fate of university events, including the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020…
St Eanswythe ‘found’ – Folkestone’s Anglo-Saxon saint
8 March 2020
I thought I would start by saying that the university, like other educational institutions, is keeping abreast of the advice coming from Government in the current circumstances. Consequently, as and…
February
Pre-historic barrows, castles and other medieval buildings – celebrating success and exploring interpretations
27 February 2020
I thought I would start with some good news. As regular readers of the blog will remember, one of the frequent contributors to the Kent History Postgraduates Group until she…
St Mildred and other saints – fascinating stories and contested identities
20 February 2020
I thought I would begin with some news and then turn to the planning for the exhibition at Eastbridge Hospital on ‘Kentish Saints and Martyrs’ in late August/early September 2020.
Mapping landscapes from Charles Dickens to Hilary Mantel
13 February 2020
I thought I would just begin by mentioning that Dr Diane Heath is intending to submit her HLF ‘Medieval Animals’ project application in the next week or so, which is…
Medieval Canterbury Weekend – two months to go
5 February 2020
This week I want to feature a few of the events that will be taking place during the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2020 and link them to medieval Canterbury. However, before…
January
Graduation and Holocaust Memorial Day
31 January 2020
Stop press: Dr Claire Bartram’s edited collection Kentish Book Culture: Writers, Archives, Libraries and Sociability 1400-1660 (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2020) arrived yesterday and it looks a very fine…
Jews, Becket, Henry III and Canterbury – a heady mix!
25 January 2020
It is Graduation Day for the first cohort of taught MA MEMS and Modern History students next Friday, so in the blog next week I will be revealing the winner…
Linking Canterbury and Lyminge through Anglo-Saxon saints
17 January 2020
As well as mentioning a couple of events that are due to happen over the next couple of weeks, I shall be reporting on Robert Baldwin’s talk this week, with…
Exciting times ahead – Becket, Canterbury and much, much more
9 January 2020
This week I’m exploring what we have planned for 2020.
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