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
New Perspectives on the Auld Alliance Conference (21-22 June)
The University of Kent will host a two-day conference between 21-22 June 2016, entitled: ‘New Perspectives on the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and their neighbours … Read more
Registration open for the MEMS Summer Festival!
The MEMS Summer Festival is back and this year’s celebration will be an even bigger event, taking place over two days: Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June 2016. Registration … Read more
The 2016 Chaucer Lecture
Entitled, Chaucer’s London Reading Circles, this year’s Chaucer Lecture takes place on Thursday 7th April at 6pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 and will be … Read more
The 2016 Renaissance Lecture
Entitled, ‘Tyndale, Erasmus, and How to Read the Bible’, this year’s Renaissance Lecture takes place on Thursday 31 March at 6pm in Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, and … Read more









