Exciting year ahead in Kent! From the Canterbury Medieval Weekend to Dover at Night, MEMS Fest, the Cinque Ports Conference & more! 2026 is packed with history, research, and community events. See the full lineup ➜ kchh.org/lots-of-exciting-kent-mems-events-in-2026/

From the Medway History Showcase (26–27 Oct 2024) to Medieval Canterbury Weekend (1–3 May 2026) — Kent’s history comes alive! 🕰️ Find details & highlights 👇 🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events #KentHeritage #LocalHistory

⚔️ Assassins vs. Templars — Myth, Blood & History Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture. 📅 Thursday 30 October 2025 🕕 6 pm 📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC 💬 Free | No booking needed Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.

📜 Pre-Modern Race Roundtable 🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30 📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams) 🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.

🔥 This Thursday in Canterbury! 🔥 Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.” 🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm) 📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU 💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors

🌟 Missed last week’s Nightingale Lecture? Catch up with Sheila Sweetinburh’s latest blog post on conserving heritage in Kent & Canterbury. A great read! 👉 kchh.org/conserving-h...

🎉 A big welcome to our new MEMS MA & PhD cohort! 🎓✨ We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.

Looking forward to this interesting event tomorrow at Canterbury Cathedral!

You can still register to meet us this evening!! We look forward to meeting all of you.

✨ Considering doing a MA or PhD with us? ✨ Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you! For more info & registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...

Delighted to see this new @leverhulme.bsky.social -funded Doctoral Scholarships Programme has made it onto here. KOM is an innovative partnership between @kcl.ac.uk and @memsunikent.bsky.social . Follow @komldsp.bsky.social - I know there is exciting news coming soon about funding and projects!

We are extremely grateful to @leverhulme.bsky.social for its generous funding which makes this new Doctoral Scholarship Programme possible. This is the official feed for Knowledge Orders before Modernity (KOM for short) - follow us to find out more about how to apply and the projects we support.

Want to learn more about #iconoclasm? On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting! Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...

Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at the Centre, and more are on their way. First, a massive congratulations to everyone who passed their viva & submitted! 🥳 And save the date for our future events! Watch the video on Insta: www.instagram.com/reel/C2-QwEH...

We are incredibly grateful to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding ‘Knowledge Orders before Modernity: a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme’ co-led by our own @drdavidrundle.bsky.social & Prof Julia Crick at KCL. This is an incredible opportunity that will allow us to fund more students

The video recordings for our MEMS Seminars with Dr Peter Good and Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh are now available for viewing! Check out the posts below! 🧵 ⬇️

The video recordings for our MEMS Seminars with Dr Peter Good and Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh are now available for viewing! Check out the posts below! 🧵 ⬇️

A delight to be hearing our @memsunikent.bsky.social colleague, Ryan Perry, begin his seminar paper on his @leverhulme.bsky.social project on fifteenth-century London devotional literature.

Good morning! Our event later today is a fantastic talk on medieval manuscripts, more precisely common profit books! Dr Ryan Perry will share with us some exciting new research on the topic. The talk is hybrid and will also be recorded. Don’t miss out! research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

#BookHistory friends, join us tomorrow for what promises to be an excellent evening with the equally excellent @RMMPerry! 📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon 📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams 👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear... #medievalsky #manuscripts

✨ Did you know that CHASE DTP (AHRC) has a new network for #Medieval and #EarlyModern researchers? ✨ Welcome to MEMRN, which is launching tonight with their first meeting! At the prow of the ship is Harry Gilbert, Clara Chamberlain, Isa Schwarzer & Segolene Gence. Just email them to join!

#MedievalSky Please amplify. The @egoconstantinus.bsky.social blog is back today w/ a new post for #WorldLeprosyDay2024: constantinusafricanus.com/2024/01/28/t....

Join us a bit later today for a fascinating talk with Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, a long time member of our MEMS community. 📜 Rethinking the Medieval Pig 🐷 📆 Thurs 25 Jan, 11am GMT, DLT1 and Online For the Teams link: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear... This talk will also be recorded, skystorians!

How DO you find those things trapped in methodological gaps (and what do you do w/them when you find them)? Tune into the livestream if you're not out east and we'll let late medieval English illumination blaze a trail! (A great lineup, and all available online too!)

Good afternoon #skystorians, #medievalsky and #earlymodern aficionados! We have just released our termcard and we are excited to share with you all of our wonderful #MemsSeminars! 👉More info on: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

Project PI @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social and Co-Investigator Suzanne Trill will give a paper on Jan 25th at @ihr.bsky.social in London. Register for 'Alice Thornton's Books: remembrance and revision in a seventeenth-century woman's life-writing', in person and on Zoom. 🗃️ 📜 📚 #17thC #HerBook

It was fantastic to welcome back Dr Peter Good at MEMS for such a thrilling talk! It was exciting to learn about the culture and traditions around Persian wine, and how far it travelled. What tidbits did you particularly enjoy? ☺️

Good afternoon #skystorians, #medievalsky and #earlymodern aficionados! We have just released our termcard and we are excited to share with you all of our wonderful #MemsSeminars! 👉More info on: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

📢TODAY📢 MEMS is kicking off the new year with the brilliant Peter Good! 🥳 Join us for our 1st #MemsSeminar of 2024: 📜 The Indian Ocean Trade in Persian Wine: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange 📆 Thurs 18th Jan, 11:00-12:00, DLT1 & Online To join us on Teams: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

It is with great delight that we are announcing that MEMS was awarded awarded a prestigious Doctoral Scholarships Programme by @leverhulme.bsky.social in partnership with King’s College London. 👉 www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear... [1/3]

This is incredibly useful from the amazing @memsunikent.bsky.social graduate students who run @memslibukc.bsky.social - a listing of British Library manuscript catalogues you can access, even in the aftermath of the cyber attack: www.memslib.co.uk/post/researc... Thank you, @memslibukc.bsky.social!

There's under 3 months until the submission deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (1 March 2024). It is open to postgraduates and ECRs. There is a £200 prize and the winning entry will be considered for publication. For full details, visit our website: tinyurl.com/3vvhjys4 Please repost!

Join us in a couple of hours to hear about the research of two of our PhD students! 📜 Tracing the Figure of the Black Knight / Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury 📅 1pm GMT 📍Darwin LT 3 Zoom link: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent Abstracts: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

This is a big week for our new doctoral student Georgie Anderson! She will be talking about post-colonialism at the Research Salon organised by the School of Classics, English & History tomorrow at 4pm in Elliot Extension Seminar Room 2. 📜WHAT IS THE PLACE OF THE POSTCOLONIAL IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES?

This week is a busy one for some of our first-year PhDs. On Thursday, Georgie Anderson and Farrell will respectively present their budding research. All welcome to join us! 📜 Tracing the figure of the Black Knight / Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury 📅 07/12 at 1pm 👉 research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

New Royal Historical Society blog post on ‘Web access to British Library databases: workarounds for historians’. If you have any info about other relevant resources, there’s a link to submit suggestions too 🗃️

Suzanna will also be accompanied by Dr Clare Wright, as our MA Co-ordinator. A winning team! We look forward to seeing the wonderful Dr Suzanna Ivanic at work, wishing her all the best for the coming few years. We know she will do brilliantly. 🥳 [3/3]

We would like to thank Dr Rory Loughnane who has brought so much energy and passion to MEMS, and has helped us forge new relationships across Europe. We would also like to thank his co-director @drdavidrundle.bsky.social who has also been a huge support to the community. ⬇️[2/3]

We have some thrilling MEMS news! Please welcome our new director, Dr Suzanna Ivanic (@suzannaivanic.bsky.social)! Suzanna will be at the helm of our ship for the next 3 years, taking up the baton from @loughnrv.bsky.social who has taken MEMS to exciting waters. 👉 blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...

Do join us tomorrow at 5pm GMT, whether online or in person!! This is promising to be great and we are excited to welcome a new member of the MEMS community!

This is a hugely exciting project: work towards comprehensive coverage of *all* VCH Big Red Books on @bho.bsky.social! Thanks to the Marc Fitch Fund and @ihr.bsky.social for funding this important endeavour. Stay tuned for updates!

This week for our #MEMSSeminar, our special guest is Dr Gabriele Bonomelli, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kent. We are absolutely delighted to welcome Dr Bonomelli to MEMS! 📜 Dissent in Late Medieval & Early Modern England 📅 Thur 30 Nov, 5pm GMT 📍 Darwin LT1 & Zoom Abstract below ⬇️

Delighted to see that, as well as Kent's vibrant Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, @memsunikent.bsky.social, the wonderful MEMSLib, curated by some of the doctoral and Masters students, has made it here as @memslibukc.bsky.social. If you have not seen it, do visit www.memslib.co.uk

Are you passionate about the #Medieval, #Renaissance, and/or #EarlyModern periods? Would you like to pursue a #postgraduate degree that would give you the tools to work with pre-modern material & textual cultures? Come meet us at our Open Event online today at 6PM GMT/1PM EST! 👉 bit.ly/3R1T3PF

Have you checked out ‘Mysteries of the Faith’ on Netflix yet? You definitely should! For in that docu-series the amazing Emily Guerry tells us about the journey of the Crown of Thorns, a relic that found its way to the Sainte-Chapelle in medieval Paris. 👉 Read more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...

If you are in the US and want to study the medieval and early modern past in a city that lives and breathes it, then join us for our @memsunikent.bsky.social open event THIS THURSDAY: 10am PST / 1pm EST. We will be there to answer your questions!

We have a secret to share with you! 🤫 We are thrilled to have our wonderful colleague Dr Anne Alwis from Kentiquity share her latest research with us this Thursday. Join us for 📜 Secret Sanctity 📜 📅 Thurs 16th Nov, 1pm GMT 📍 Room tbc and online For more info 🧵 ⬇️

Passionate about #medieval and #earlymodern cultures? Wondering what it is like to do a MA with us? We are having an online open day on November 16, 6pm GMT! For more information and registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-in-medi...

Thank you so much for having me - can’t wait to attend more seminars as an audience member!

So thrilled to welcome this evening Dr @katydotcom.bsky.social who has just joined CCCU this year! All welcome to join us in person or on zoom: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent 📜 Medieval historical writing & the third crusade: a question of failure? 📆 Thur 19 Oct, 5pm, DLT1 #skystory #medievalsky