Established in 2014, The Centre for Kent History and Heritage (CKHH) is a centre of research excellence in regional historical and cultural studies with a track-record of successful external funding bids and publications.
Based in the School of Humanities and Educational Studies, it brings together scholars working on many aspects of the region’s rich heritage in the fields of history, archaeology and built heritage, theology and religious studies and explores both Kent’s literary history and its status as inspiration for new creative work.
Known for its prestigious annual Canterbury History Weekends, the Centre also offers student placements, outreach and enrichment activities for schools and provides financial support to a number of postgraduate research students through the Ian Coulson Memorial Fund. Its long-running blog has a wide following and is one of a number of online resources produced by the Centre. CKHH works with a wide range of regional organisations, museums and community groups and supports events such as the Medieval Canterbury Pageant.
The CKHH in 2025
Wednesday January 08, 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. Currently, I can only […]
Top Ten of 2024
Tuesday December 17, 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
Wednesday December 11, 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
Thursday December 05, 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 […]
Abi Kingsnorth and Broadside Ballads
Wednesday November 27, 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
Tuesday November 19, 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
Tuesday November 12, 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
Wednesday November 06, 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
Friday November 01, 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 […]
Kent: Hop-picking and Dover’s Maison Dieu
Thursday October 24, 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 […]