We have created this page to notify website readers of other events that we have been asked to publicise.
Canterbury Historical Association lecture on Thursday 6 February at 7pm in the Clagett Auditorium, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge. Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh is the speaker and the title is ‘A gateway county: migrants in 15th-century Canterbury and Kent’ . A poster advertising this talk can be downloaded here.
Archaeology of the Old Park at 6.30 for 7.00 on Monday 3 March at the Friends Meeting House. Alastair Key, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, will talk about ‘Old Park: Home to some of the Earliest Humans in Europe’ on Monday 3 March. This will take place in the Friends Meeting House (6 The Friars, Canterbury, CT1 2AS), starting at 7pm, with refreshments from 6.30pm onwards. The event is organised by the Friends of Old Park & Chequers Wood. Further details are available by clicking here.
Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend 2025 – CONFERENCE April 25-27. Augustine House, Canterbury. For further details see https://ckhh.org.uk/tudors-stuarts.
The Becket Lecture will be on Tuesday 27 May at 7pm, wine reception from 6.30pm, in the Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House and is a free public lecture – all welcome. The speaker his Rachel Koopmans and her lecture is entitled ‘Murder, Miracles, Liturgy, and Stained Glass: Thomas Becket and Benedict of Peterborough’.
Michael Nightingale Memorial Lecture is a joint undertaking between Brook Rural Museum and CKHH. This will be on Tuesday 23 September at 7pm, again with a wine reception from 6.30pm and is an open public lecture. The speaker is Victoria Stevens and the title of her lecture is ‘Conserving Intangibility: the significance of change in heritage collections’
Saturday, 8th November 11am – 4pm Canterbury Society Heritage Expo Event at Westgate Hall. This is expected to be a similar event to last year when there was a series of small talks and over 30 stalls (including CHAS).
More local events of possible interest are advertised on the Centre for Kent History and Heritage webpage.