{"id":81,"date":"2021-06-22T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-kent-history-and-heritage\/?p=81"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:04:13","slug":"medieval-canterbury-weekend-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-kent-history-and-heritage\/medieval-canterbury-weekend-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Having gone online on Teams this year, the sixth History Weekend (2020 had to be cancelled) was again extremely successful, attracting an international audience \u2013 from northern France to the United States.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Weekend comprised eleven lectures and two films, the latter offering a sense of \u2018being in Canterbury\u2019 at the Cathedral Library and the city\u2019s Buttermarket. All the events came under four strands: \u2018Royalty and Conflict\u2019, \u2018Manuscripts and Religion\u2019, \u2018Minorities\u2019 and \u2018Social History\u2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJGssevnido\">Check out Paul Bennett\u2019s film on \u2018Early Tudor Canterbury\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Early Tudor Canterbury 2021 - a walking tour with Professor Paul Bennett\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJGssevnido?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as inviting back eminent historians such as Glenn Richardson, Amy Blakeway and Keith McLay, our audiences were treated to fantastic talks by Alec Ryrie and Pamela King, and enjoyed equally brilliant lectures by our international stars, Lena Orlin and Matthew Johnson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new theme of \u2018Minorities\u2019 gave audiences Onyeka Nubia\u2019s fascinating insights into the presence of black people in early modern England and contemporary responses to them, while Kenneth Austin similarly offered a thought-provoking assessment of the return of Jews to Cromwellian England.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>As always there is a more detailed report on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/kenthistory\/tudors-and-stuarts-2021\/\">Centre blog\u2019s&nbsp;<\/a>and please also see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/arts-and-humanities\/school-of-humanities\/docs\/TS-2021-Legacy-Brochure-1.pdf\">Souvenir Brochure<\/a>, in addition to the<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=tudorsstuarts21&amp;src=typed_query\">&nbsp;twitter feeds<\/a>. 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