Our very popular graduate training programme, funded by the CHASE consortium, is back again for 2017 – book now to avoid disappointment! Material Witness: Taste, … Read more
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Material Culture Web Workshop May 2017
Material Culture and Writing Practice from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: an interdisciplinary workshop 25th to 26th May 2017 Sibson Building, Seminar room 6, … Read more
University and Cathedral renew collaborative working agreement
On 17 March, representatives from The University of Kent and Canterbury Cathedral renewed the Memorandum of Understanding they first signed in 2014. The signing ceremony … Read more
MEMS Summer Festival returns in June
Now in its third year, we’re delighted to announce that the MEMS Festival will once again be taking place in mid-June (dates to be confirmed very soon). We would … Read more
MEMS supports plan to save Heritage Museum
The City Council is consulting on closure of the Canterbury Heritage Museum. Those named below call on the City Council NOT to close the Museum … Read more
The 5th Annual TEEME Conference: 3-5 November
‘Matters of Representation’ will be the theme of the fifth annual Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (TEEME) conference, taking place from 3rd-5th November, 2016 at … Read more
The annual Chaucer Lecture: 13 October 2016, 6pm
Given by Professor Stephen Rigby of the University of Manchester, this year’s Chaucer Lecture is entitled, Three Approaches to Chaucer in Context. The open lecture … Read more
Illuminating the Past: free workshop and talks
If you would like to know more about the making and meaning of Gothic colour, then come along to Illuminating the Past, a one-day (and … Read more
Unlocking Canterbury – MEMS Staff and Students feature on BBC Radio Programme
Unlocking Canterbury Exhibition Many stories about Tudor and Stuart Canterbury can be unlocked from the Cathedral Archives. You can journey on our enormous floor map … Read more
Questions of Space Festival
On the 20 and 21 June 2016 Canterbury Cathedral hosts a series of public talks, walks, sights and sounds. The Festival of Ideas emerged from the … Read more