{"id":1560,"date":"2026-05-07T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:11:01","slug":"pilgrimage-exhibition-by-mems-students-in-special-collections-open-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2026\/05\/07\/pilgrimage-exhibition-by-mems-students-in-special-collections-open-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage Exhibition by MEMS students in Special Collections &#8211; Open Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>To coincide with Canterbury Medieval Weekend 2026, Special Collections has opened a brand new exhibition curated by MEMS postgraduates: <strong>&#8220;There and Back Again: Journeys through the Medieval World&#8221;.<\/strong><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An exhibition exploring aspects of the medieval world largely in relation to England and especially Kent. Using material from SC&amp;A, The Beaney and Canterbury Cathedral, the exhibition tells the story of medieval maps and mapping, pilgrimage and Geoffrey Chaucer&#8217;s Canterbury Tales.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/files\/2026\/05\/IMG_8353.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1565\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/files\/2026\/05\/IMG_8353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19955\" src=\"https:\/\/kchh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_CMW-5-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" \/>The Gough Map in the exhibition (facsimile loaned by Jacqueline Spencer)<\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img id=\"image_0\" src=\"https:\/\/kchh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_CMW-4-771x1024.jpg\" data-id=\"19947\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">St Thomas\u2019 Hospital accommodated poor pilgrims<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19949\" src=\"https:\/\/kchh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_CMW-2-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" data-id=\"19949\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Becket ampulla and portable sundial \u2013 on loan from The Beaney, Canterbury City Museums<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19950\" src=\"https:\/\/kchh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_CMW-3-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" data-id=\"19950\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Late Elizabethan copy of Chaucer\u2019s Canterbury Tales, from the Special Collections and Archives<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/kchh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_CMW-1-1024x771.jpg\" data-id=\"19948\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maps and mapping \u2013 using audio and visuals<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to\u00a0<strong>Karen Brayshaw<\/strong>\u00a0and her\u00a0<strong>colleagues in Special Collections<\/strong>\u00a0and Archives, who with several MEMS postgraduates:\u00a0<strong>Angela Broomfield, Tressa Biener, Elijah Vote<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Tris Lopez-Huicochea <\/strong>(utilising skills developed in the MEMS MA) worked with\u00a0<strong>Ryan Perry<\/strong> and <strong>Sheila Sweetinburgh<\/strong> on the exhibition, as well as <strong>Torn Brown<\/strong>\u00a0(Pilgrimage Officer at Canterbury Cathedral). If you would like to visit the exhibition, please go to the Templeman Library Reception during normal working hours and the staff will be happy to let you into the library and guide you to Special Collections.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To coincide with Canterbury Medieval Weekend 2026, Special Collections has opened a brand new exhibition curated by MEMS postgraduates: &#8220;There and Back Again: Journeys through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2026\/05\/07\/pilgrimage-exhibition-by-mems-students-in-special-collections-open-now\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82691,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251192,124,70,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}