The Centre for Kent History and Heritage's annual Canterbury History Weekend returns for its 10th year.
The Centre for Kent History and Heritage's annual Canterbury History Weekend returns for its 10th year. The lectures and guided visits showcase recent research on the period of the ‘Tudors & Stuarts’, making it readily accessible to a wide audience.
Among the exciting internationally known scholars and well-known, more popular historians who have been invited are Alison Weir, Glenn Richardson, Clare Jackson, Steven Gunn, and Jackie Eales, who will cover topics across the period featuring several Tudor and Stuart monarchs and the problems faced by them and their subjects across a turbulent period in British history.
This is the 10th History Weekend which will offer audiences the opportunity to gain access to recent scholarship from experts and to hear new interpretations, ideas and knowledge across a wide range of early modern history topics.
Lectures and guided tours are classified under four themes: ‘Royalty and Nobility; ‘War and Politics’; ‘Art, Literature and Religion’ and ‘Social History’. The Weekend is organised by the CCCU Centre for Kent History and Heritage in conjunction with Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library, which will provide two tours.
Those attending lectures book their chosen events using a pick-and-mix approach. The CCCU Bookshop will have its regular bookstall and there will be facilities for authors to sign newly purchased books. Venues Lectures take place in Augustine House, CCCU's library, in rooms AHg27 (Augustine Hall) and AH3.31.
Guided tours/visits take place at off-campus locations in the City centre. Tickets The organisers’ intention is to raise money for the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate Award fund that continues to support postgraduates studying Kent history and archaeology projects. Tickets are £10 per lecture/tour.
If you are booking 10 or more tickets in any combination (e.g. 10 tickets to one lecture, or 1 ticket to 10 lectures) within a single transaction, then a discount of £2 per ticket will be applied at the checkout, and you will only pay £8 per ticket. There are a limited number of £2 student tickets available for talks scheduled in Augustine Hall, AHg27; these are not available for tours, or talks taking place in AH3.31.
£10 / £8 when buying 10+ tickets / £2 students
Address
Tudors and Stuarts Weekend 2025
North Holmes Rd
CT1 1QU
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