Articles from 2024
December
Top Ten of 2024
17 December 2024
As promised for this week I’m going to offer what I think were the CKHH highlights of 2024. This year I’m going to try a thematic approach for at least…
Canterbury’s story gardens in development
11 December 2024
This is going to be a very short blog for a change because I’ll use next week to give a round-up of the highlights of 2024. Then the blog will…
Delight and Despair – Tudors and Stuarts 2025 versus Canterbury’s disastrous fire
5 December 2024
Stop press! Kellie has set up the booking system for all the events and Ben has linked them to the website (thanks both of you), which means we are totally…
November
Abi Kingsnorth and Broadside Ballads
27 November 2024
Before I get to Abi’s presentation today, which will be the main focus this week, I just want to mention three other events since the end of last week that…
St Albans Court and Becket Miracle Window
19 November 2024
This week will give me a chance to catch up with what has been happening concerning the CKHH, which means I have two events to cover: Victoria Stevens’ presentation at…
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…
October
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…
September
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…
August
July
Exploring Kent History
27 July 2024
Having been away working for much of the week, I missed the Faculty’s Research Day on Wednesday and Dr Heidi Stoner’s presentation on Thursday about her new joint project with…
Dover’s Maison Dieu – pilgrims and victuals
19 July 2024
The report this week is on Kieron Hoyle’s presentation at the Community Cinema as part of Dover Museum to a public audience that took place last night (Thursday). The report…
Aphra Behn Conference at Canterbury
12 July 2024
Dr Astrid Stilma has kindly written this report on the conference: Aphra Behn fever swept Canterbury in the first week of July, with the Aphra Behn (Europe) Society’s international conference…
Thomas Walsingham and Scadbury
11 July 2024
Final reminder, the Brook Rural Museum Medieval Fayre is this Saturday between 10am and 3pm – as well as the stunning barn and its collection, there will be a wide…
Canterbury Commemoration – a fire, Thomas More and Thomas Becket
8 July 2024
This is really the second half from last week, that is events from Friday and Saturday, thereby leaving the second week of July for Dr Janet Clayton’s presentation to the…
Tenterden Museum and Canterbury Conference
4 July 2024
I’m going to split the blog again this week because there is so much going on. Moreover, I’ll use this one to publicise public events linked to Centre people coming…
June
Voices from the archive – medieval and Tudor manuscripts
26 June 2024
I thought I would provide a final reminder about events in the first week of July, before coming to the AMARC conference on Monday and Jason’s presentation to the Kent…
CKHH: celebrating 10 years – past, present and future
20 June 2024
As I mentioned in the first blog for this week, Kieron Hoyle will be giving the next Kent History Postgraduates group presentation next week, and then going into July she…
Kent History Postgraduates at MEMS Fest
18 June 2024
For this week, because it marks two big 10th year anniversaries, it seems fairer to give each a separate blog. Therefore, here I’m featuring the contribution by members of the…
Canterbury and Kent – from Story Gardens to the History of Emotions
12 June 2024
For this week among the various things Dr Claire Bartram and I have been doing is putting together the final preparations for the CKHH 10 Year Celebratory event next week.…
From the Stone Age to the Tudors – exploring Kent’s past
5 June 2024
Before I come to the opening of the new gallery at Maidstone Museum with its official launch yesterday (Tuesday 5 June), I thought I would take the opportunity to mention…
May
Celebrating with Maidstone Museum and other forthcoming events
30 May 2024
This week really will be shorter for a change as I want to bring you a bit more information about forthcoming events involving people from the CKHH and organisations we…
From castles to hospitals – researching Kent’s past
22 May 2024
This week is more some short reports on people’s activities around the county rather than notices of what’s coming up next week. However, looking slightly further into June, I thought…
Becket Lecture plus Cinque Ports
16 May 2024
There has been (will be) a feast of lectures this week, all very different but testimony to the wide coverage of the CKHH and one of its aims to bring…
Upcoming Becket Lecture and much more
9 May 2024
This week I want to highlight some forthcoming events, starting with the Annual Becket Lecture, which is next Tuesday 14 May at 6pm (drinks reception from 5.30pm). Professor Elisabeth van…
Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024
2 May 2024
Before I get to the main business for this week, I want to remind readers that the Becket Lecture is less than a fortnight away on Tuesday 14 May. It…
April
Countdown to MCW24, plus May lectures
24 April 2024
We are now only a couple of days away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024, but if you haven’t got your tickets, you still can and details of all the…
Valuing maps – in Kent and Faversham
18 April 2024
We are now just over a week away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend and it is a matter of now doing the finishing touches so that our ticket holders have…
Exploring Canterbury’s medieval and Tudor hospitals
13 April 2024
I thought I would start with the press release from CCCU Marketing by Jeanette Earl about the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, which is coming up fast: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/who-run-the-medieval-world-girls-medieval-women-take-centre-stage-at-history-weekend so if you haven’t…
Church-going in medieval Lenham, plus looking forward
3 April 2024
I hope our regular (and all) CKHH blog readers had a good Easter Weekend. My thanks to Dr Diane Heath who this week has been busy putting the Medieval Canterbury…
March
Kent’s Maritime Communities
27 March 2024
We are now a month away from the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024 between 26th and 28th April, so not quite on the countdown but certainly getting near to it after…
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…
February
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…
January
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…
Centre for Kent History and Heritage: events for 2024
11 January 2024
Firstly, Happy New Year to regular and new readers of the CKHH blog, we hope you enjoy it and come back again in future weeks. Secondly, the new website organised…
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