We have created this page to notify website readers of other events that we have been asked to publicise.
Archaeology of the Old Park at 6.30 for 7.00pm 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.
‘Marlowe, Shakespeare and the 1580s’ at 7:00pm Thursday 13th March at St Peter’s Anglican Church, High Street. Rory Loughnane is the speaker. An intriguing insight into one of our city’s most famous sons. All welcome – refreshment available – free for members of Canterbury Commemoration Society, others £5.00. Tickets on Eventbrite or on the door. To register for the event and for further details click here.
‘Aphra Behn’ 7:30pm Thursday 20th March at Bridge Village Hall. The speaker is Jenny Watson-Bore. Entry is £4 on the door. For further details please click here.
Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend 2025 – CONFERENCE April 25-27. Augustine House, Canterbury. For further details see https://ckhh.org.uk/tudors-stuarts.
SPRA Cello and Piano Recital at 3pm Sunday April 27th at The Old Synagogue, 33 – 34 King Street, CT1 2AJ. (We don’t usually inform CHAS members and website visitors of non-history events, but have made an exception here, as this affords an opportunity to enter a historic building not normally open to the public.). Tickets are £15 and can be obtained by emailing spracanterbury@gmail.com or calling 07798 645141. Further details can be obtained by clicking here.
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.