Photo of ancient ruins at St Augustines Abbey in Canterbury

About us

Photo of ancient ruins at St Augustines Abbey in Canterbury

About us

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.

Latest articles from our blog

Kent’s Maritime Communities – past, present and future

Wednesday February 12, 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

Friday February 07, 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 […]

Crossing the Channel in times past – goods, people and ideas

Thursday January 30, 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

Wednesday January 22, 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

Thursday January 16, 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

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 […]

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