Articles from 2025
December
Top Ten of 2025
23 December 2025
Well, 2025 has been an interesting year, especially the move from CKHH to KCHH and the new website beautifully designed by Ben Cornwell – many thanks Ben. However, because of…
Kent History Postgraduates plus Gloucester
11 December 2025
Interest in the Canterbury Medieval Weekend is growing, and we now have fliers at museums, libraries and exhibition centres in many parts of Kent. If you haven’t yet investigated the…
November
Lots of exciting Kent MEMS events in 2026
27 November 2025
I’ll come to some updates on various planned events in 2026, but I thought I would mention that it is excellent to see word is getting out, which means we…
Stop press – Canterbury Medieval Weekend 2026
12 November 2025
The headline news this time is that the Canterbury Medieval Weekend 2026 website has gone live and is now open for ticket sales at: Canterbury Medieval Weekend 2026 so please…
October
Medway History Showcase and forthcoming events
29 October 2025
I thought I would start with some extremely exciting news, Ben Cornwell who is designing the Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2026 website thinks that it will be ready to go live…
Dover’s Maison Dieu and other heritage in Kent
16 October 2025
This week I want to draw your attention to events taking place next weekend and report on Kieron Hoyle’s talk at Dover on Wednesday, but first I want to bring…
September
Conserving Heritage – in Kent and Canterbury
25 September 2025
The new academic year is a time of transition. Consequently, I’ll start by bring news of those among the CCCU Kent History Postgraduates who have completed or almost completed their…
History lectures in Canterbury
11 September 2025
Having spent part of last week at the Fifteenth Century conference at Durham, which was an interesting and pleasurable experience, it might be worth mentioning that the 2026 conference next…
August
July
June
Exciting news – for Kent history and heritage
25 June 2025
To a large extent this has been a week of meetings and preparations for events next week in Canterbury, not least because for much of the Middle Ages and under…
From Medway to Dover – exploring history and heritage in Kent
19 June 2025
Firstly, congratulations to Dr Kaye Sowden who has received confirmation that her doctoral thesis on the history of early modern Pluckley has been signed off by her examiners and is…
Working together in Canterbury – shared ideas through people, places and buildings
13 June 2025
A final notice for the University of Kent’s MEMS Fest where Peter Joyce, Kieron Hoyle and Jason Mazzocchi will be presenting their session on ‘Challenging Perceptions: Identity and Representation in…
Kent History Postgraduates – from oysters to gold rings
4 June 2025
Now that we are in June, I thought I would highlight some of the forthcoming events involving Kent History Postgraduates and others associated with the CKHH before I report on…
May
Rachel Koopmans and Becket and Benedict
29 May 2025
Before I report on the events involving the CKHH this week, that is the Becket Lecture and the Becket and Benedict workshop in the chapter house and cathedral, I thought…
The CKHH at the Palace, yes Buckingham Palace
21 May 2025
The blog about the visit to the Palace having just inexplicably disappeared in the last couple of hours, I thought I would do it again because it was such a…
CKHH at the Palace, yes Buckingham Palace
19 May 2025
Before I come to the headline event for this week’s blog, I want to send out a reminder concerning the Becket Lecture next week, as well as mentioning that on…
Kent History Postgraduates in Dover – celebrating success
12 May 2025
This week I want to feature the knowledge exchange and community engagement activities of members of the Kent History Postgraduates group over the weekend at Dover Museum and at the…
Tudors and Stuarts 2025 – last of the (thin red) line
2 May 2025
Before I come to the Tudors and Stuarts 25 History Weekend, as well as a visit from sixth-form students studying English Literature at Cherwell School in Oxford, I want to…
April
Tudors and Stuarts meets St Augustine’s Abbey
23 April 2025
Rather than a ‘normal’ blog this week, please see this offer from English Heritage, one of CCCU’s fellow organisations on Canterbury’s World Heritage Site: St Augustine’s Abbey (Longport, Canterbury, CT1…
From Kent to Hull – showcasing maritime history
15 April 2025
This week has Jason Mazzocchi’s report of the Hull Maritime History conference where he and Kieron Hoyle gave papers last Saturday, but before that these are the two upcoming CKHH…
Two sides of a coin: vibrant research culture – end of an era
10 April 2025
I shall start this week with a note of congratulations to Dr Dessoy, whose doctoral thesis is now complete and the next event will be her graduation. Thus, well done…
March
What we can learn from (Kent) history – if we care enough to look
29 March 2025
Stop press – the event details and booking link for the ‘Kent and Europe, 1450–1640: Merchants, Mariners, Shipping and Defence’ FREE study day at Dover Museum in the Community Cinema…
More from the Kent History Postgraduates
20 March 2025
Although it is good to be able to note that there were guest history speakers at both CCCU and the University of Kent this week these being Dr Giorgia Tolfo…
Celebrating postgraduate research on late medieval and early modern Kent
12 March 2025
For this week, although the lion’s share will be Jason’s report and photos covering Kaye Sowden’s presentation at the Kent History and Library Centre on Monday of this week, I…
Featuring ‘Dover at Night’ and Canterbury Pilgrimage
8 March 2025
We’ll be back at Dover, physically this week on Friday for the ‘Dover at Night’ festival around the town, and because that will form the main part of this week’s…
February
Royalty, gentry and saints – Kent today and in the past
27 February 2025
As a carryover from last week, I thought I would mention very briefly three meetings I was involved in. Firstly, on Monday I had an online meeting of the Lossenham…
Looking forward to Tudors and Stuarts 2025
19 February 2025
Next week will be busy with a Kent History Postgraduates presentation by Kieron Hoyle, a meeting concerning Canterbury and pilgrimage with Michael Byrne, another doctoral student working on a Kent…
Kent’s Maritime Communities – past, present and future
12 February 2025
This week it is great to be able to feature one of the CKHH’s Kent History Postgraduates. Grace Conium Parsonage recently submitted her doctoral thesis and has just started in…
Immigration and innovation – what history has to offer
7 February 2025
Firstly, thanks very much to those who came to the Canterbury Historical Association Lyle Lecture last night (Thursday), which honours Marjorie and Lawrence Lyle, absolute stalwarts of so many organisations…
January
Crossing the Channel in times past – goods, people and ideas
30 January 2025
As a start this week, I thought I would mention that there is an advert in the February edition of the BBC History magazine for the Tudors and Stuarts History…
Wealden case studies – from iron to emigration
22 January 2025
As promised last week, I will be giving a short report on Maureen’s presentation to the Kent History Postgraduates today, but because she will be giving a talk to Leigh…
Narratives and artefacts – history and heritage
16 January 2025
Good news, firstly Craig Dadds at the CCCU Bookshop tells me that the ‘virtual bookshelf’ for the Tudors and Stuarts Weekend is now up, please see: https://bookshop.canterbury.ac.uk/tudors-and-stuarts-weekend-2025 and secondly, I…
The CKHH in 2025
8 January 2025
First of all, Happy New Year to readers of the CKHH blog and we hope you continue to enjoy following our activities during the coming year.
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