MEMS

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

Here is the direct link: shorturl.at/v1EZU
Meeting ID: 381 839 208 492 3
Passcode: Ne9Be7zs

⚔️ 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...

MEMS on Instagram: "Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at th... 19 likes, 0 comments - mems_ukc on February 5, 2024: "Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at the Centre for Medi..."

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...

Tweet from the Leverhulme Trust We are proud to announce the winners of the 2023 round of Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships. Congratulations to the eleven new Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programmes that secured funding for up to 18 scholars: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2023LDS Followed by an image quoting “Over £24 million invested in the future generation of researchers”.

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 recording for Dr Ryan Perry’s talk will be available next week :)

The recording is now available :)

Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh’s talk on Rethinking the Medieval Pig:

youtu.be/Bx_F96oXTnE

Dr Peter Good’s talk on the Indian Ocean Trade of Persian Wine: youtu.be/cmCShIiUZI4

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!

Photo of the opening of the text of Constantine the African’s De elephancia (On Leprosy), showing a handwritten manuscript page and a large initial letter ‘Q’ with filigree in red and blue ink. The rubric (red lettering) reads: "Liber quem Dominus Constantinus edidit de lepra" (The Book Which Lord Constantine Edited on Leprosy). Source: Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, m. p. med. f. 3, f. 183r (detail).

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

Mems seminar spring 2024 series poster Rethinking the medieval pig Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh Canterbury Christ Church University/ University of Kent Thursday 25th January, 11AM GMT Darwin LT1 And Online University of Kent Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies All welcome! Join us on Teams via linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent On the left: medieval metal badge representing a pig

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!

Just to confirm we will be recording :)

Just to confirm we will be recording :)