What’s On
KAS EVENTS
KAS PLACE-NAMES COMMITTEE DAY CONFERENCE ON PLACE-NAMES
Saturday 3 November, 10.30 – 4.30
At the Visitor Information Centre, 95 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX.
Speakers:
Locative surnames on the move: when Kentish names leave Kent, and when newcomers arrive, by Paul Cullen (Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England)
The Case of Northminster and other Thanet mythologies, by Richard Jones (Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester)
The Canterbury Cartae Antiquae Project: a major source of names, by Liz Finn (Kent History and Library Centre)
Place-names and boundaries, from Gouldhurst to North Woolwich, by Paul Cullen (as above)
Tickets £12 each. Please download booking form from Events section on KAS website or contact Hon. Sec. Place-Names Committee, Val Barrand Davies, email: ratterspam@aol.com tel: 07947 583327.
EVENTS AROUND KENT
FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST
Wednesday 7 November at 7.00pm
Popular protest in Elizabethan and early Stuart Kent by Dr Stephen Hipkin (Reader in Social History and Acting Head of Department for History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University).
Friends Meeting House, 6 The Friars, Canterbury CB1 2AS.
Saturday 26 January 2013 at 6.30pm
Frank Jenkins Memorial Lecture - annual review of the past year’s work of the Archaeological Trust by Dr. Paul Bennett (Director, Canterbury Archaeological Trust)
Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, Canterbury Christ Church University, Longport, Canterbury
February 2013
An update on Medieval Canterbury. A symposium with speakers from Canterbury Archaeological Trust
For all these events, FCAT requests a donation of £2 from their members, £3 for non-members, and £1 for students, to cover costs and to help support the activities of CAT.
LOOSE AREA HISTORY SOCIETY
Monday 12 November
‘Glenn Miller Lives On’ by John and Sue Pearce
Monday 10 December
‘A Country House Christmas’ by Pat Mortlock
Meetings start at 7.30pm and are held at Loose Infant School Hall, Loose Road, Maidstone.
Further information from our website www.looseareahistorysociety.webeden.co.uk or phone 01622 741198.
COUNCIL FOR KENTISH ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE RECENT RESEARCH ON ANGLO-SAXON KENT
Saturday 20 October 2 - 5.30pm
The Old Sessions Lecture Theatre, Canterbury Christchurch University, North Holmes Campus.
Monastic foundation and the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon Kent: A Review of recent excavation at Lyminge, by Alexandra Knox, Reading University
Kentish Anglo-Saxon acquisitions from the British Museum, by Sue Brunning, British Museum
Discovery of a Major Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Eynsford, by Brian Philp
Tickets £5.00 available from C.K.A. 7, Sandy Ridge, Borough Green, Kent TN15 8HP.
(S.A.E. please). Website www.the-cka.fsnet.co.uk
This information is correct at the time of publication.
MAIDSTONE AREA ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUP MEETINGS
19 October
Elizabethan Maidstone by Paul Oldham
16 November
Members’ Evening
14 December
Christmas Social
18 January 2013
Recent Work by Wessex Archaeology by Mark Williams
15 February
Underground Kent by Mike Clinch
15 March
A Can of Worms - or Charles Darwin’s Contribution to Archaeology by Richard Weeks
Meetings start 7.30pm at Kent Police College, Maidstone (off Sutton Road A274) ME15 9DW.
Non-members £1. For further details contact Mrs Linda Weeks (Hon. Sec.) on 01622 762422 or maag.info@virginmedia.com.
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