Join the Chancellor of the University of Kent, Gavin Elser, in conversation with poet playwright, memoirist performer and broadcaster, Lemn Sissay OBE. There will be an opportunity to purchase signed Read more…
The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) was founded to keep hand embroidery alive and to offer suitable occupation to educated women who would otherwise have been destitute. Today it is Read more…
100 years ago, Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Over five thousand items of exquisite quality were the treasures that would accompany the Pharaoh to the afterlife. Leading Read more…
Have you ever worried about whether you’re ‘normal’? From our bodies to our minds, our sex lives to our kids’ development, we constantly judge ourselves and those around us by Read more…
Why did Canterbury remain so important, considering other cities might have eclipsed it in the Middle Ages? Ed Roberts from the School of History, Uni of Kent, explores the European Read more…
Drawn from memoirs provided by family living in Kent, Dave Parker recounts the survival of Flight Sergeant Mark Mead. Shot down over Europe in a Halifax bomber, he spent the Read more…
Tristram Hunt calls Josiah Wedgwood ‘the Steve Jobs of the 18th century’. Marrying technology with design he revolutionised the production of ceramics and his flair for retail helped to usher Read more…
Physics informs our understanding of how the world works – but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics – from thermodynamics to the internet – have transformed everyday life. Award-winning Read more…
Male gatekeepers of the past deliberately wrote women out of history. The label FEMINA scribbled on texts known to be written by a woman marked them as less worthy of Read more…
Ballet dancer, front man in an almost famous band, judge on The Great Pottery Throwdown and infamous “crier,” Keith Brymer-Jones comes to Canterbury, to tell tales of his curious – Read more…
From its maverick beginnings through the war, the creation of television, changing public taste, austerity and massive cultural change, the BBC has constantly evolved. It is now a global institution Read more…
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, but how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? Kathryn Harkup Read more…
