.Royal Historical Society's academic journal, ' TRHS', welcomes submissions from historians at all career stages, researching and working in #history in Higher Education & other sectors bit.ly/3OujmeL.

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🎭 We're looking for a company or an individual that can develop and deliver a touring performance telling the story of Leas Lift, engaging both children and adults.

💻 The full touring performance brief can be found at leaslift.co.uk/Vacancies/

📆 Deadline: 5pm, Friday, 10 May

Including episodes in Kent - nice work! whattowatch.com/watching-guide…

On Thursday 25th April I will be hosting a Q&A with the fantastic novelist, Peter Benson. Do come along to the CCCU campus. His work deserves it. FREE tickets can be booked here: canterbury.ac.uk/events/2024/pe… #Canterbury #cccu #WritingCommunity

Bob Chicalors checks out the temporary Folkestone Library after hearing rumours of Jocelyn Brooke material. For a different take on the 'Rumours' theme, Bob can be found at the symposium next week...

Happy #NationalLibrarianDay

I have had an interesting relationship with librarians, shall we say. I was banned from secondary school library for being a nuisance.

Now, the librarians at my local library know me by name and our award-winning university library is my second home

Join us next week when we meet novelist Peter Benson in conversation with Danny Rhodes at the CreativeWriting CCCU author event Canterbury Christ Church University canterbury.ac.uk/events/2024/pe…

Anyone need cheering up? Here's a caricature of the writing life by Victoria Cholmondeley, sister of author Mary Cholmondeley.

Free event - booking at canterbury.ac.uk/events/2024/ke…

In 1888, the women and girls employed by Bryant & May in London's East End went on strike. What drove these workers to remove their labour and fight back? And what can government documents show us about the legal changes that followed?
#WomensHistory
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Medieval royalty, history of WW2, Margate’s first gay bar, risqué and realist novels, early cinema, and the link between Canterbury and a small town in South Africa. Or are you coming for the KS5 #DigitalHumanities workshop? canterbury.ac.uk/event-booking/… Team ENG #EnglishCreates

According to K. Wilkins, “the daily traffic jams witnessed across the UK are not a solely modern phenomenon.”

If you are interested in the traffic situation in Victorian London click here to read Wilkins’s full essay from 2011: jvc.oup.com/2011/05/31/tra…

Photo credit: from essay.

Who runs the medieval world (girls). Join us to celebrate medieval women & their influence on society at the Canterbury Medieval Weekend. Guest speakers include the amazing Prof Janina Ramirez showcasing exceptional medieval women & why their voices matter
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200 years since Wilkie Collins was born. 130 years since Sarah Grand kick-started the 'New Woman' debate. But what do these authors have in common? The answer is in the archives of the Folkestone Free Library. This event is also free! canterbury.ac.uk/event-booking/… #EnglishCreates

By one of our PhD English alumni - enough of them carry on working with us to suggest we're doing something right!

Yes it's that time again, 'Whan that Aprill, with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote'.

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9 papers on Kentish heritage plus a #DigitalHumanities workshop for schools. And for those of you who haven't been before, it's a free event! Booking at canterbury.ac.uk/event-booking/…

#OTD 1963 Miss Madge Tart (76) from #Dungeness received a gold bar from Princess Marina in Westminster Central Hall for 60 years helping launch the Dungeness lifeboat.
Over 5,000 listened to how she helped save numerous lives, often in appalling conditions.

We did it!! Well done 2all those who have contributed to our virtual pilgrimage! All the way from Canterbury to Rome and back again along #viafrancigena @canterburyccuni and we have literally just made it home!! Thank you to all who have responded to the call and sent their miles

From One World Week to Shakespeare on the Pond, from Café Social ToteLab to Postgradaute Community Day there is so much going on at #CCCU this April. So, dive in and get involved! ow.ly/Wc8F50R6q02