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Celebrating 30 years of the Canterbury UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Celebrating 30 years with a University Heritage A to Z
Celebrating 30 years with a University Heritage A to Z
Canterbury Christ Church University is organising a series of events to celebrate the city’s 30 year-milestone of World Heritage status.
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Apr 29, 2019
A is for Augustine
A is for Augustine
Without Saint Augustine there would be no World Heritage Site in Canterbury. He is that significant. Yet history has rendered Augustine a…
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Apr 30, 2019
B is for Baobab
B is for Baobab
London planes are still a familiar sight in many cities and Canterbury is no exception. London Road in St Dunstan’s boasts a long avenue…
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May 1, 2019
C is for Canterbury Christ Church Cathedral
C is for Canterbury Christ Church Cathedral
St Augustine’s Cathedral was dedicated to Jesus Christ, after the Lateran Basilica, the cathedral church of Rome, now St John Lateran. A…
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May 2, 2019
D is for Dunstan
D is for Dunstan
St Dunstan has long been lauded as a Canterbury saint. Originally monk and then Abbot of Glastonbury, Dunstan was appointed Archbishop of…
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May 3, 2019
E is for Education and Elizabeth Elstob
E is for Education and Elizabeth Elstob
Elizabeth Elstob was Canterbury’s first ‘bluestocking’ or female scholar, and she described herself as the first woman to understand Old…
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May 4, 2019
F is for Folklore and Faery
F is for Folklore and Faery
Canterbury is a city of contrasts; the sacred and profane rub up against each other, the pagan peers through Christian furnishings. Despite…
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May 5, 2019
G is for Graffiti
G is for Graffiti
“There can be no doubt that persons, old or young or middle-aged, who commemorate themselves by inscribing their names or initials in…
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May 6, 2019
H is for Herbal
H is for Herbal
The Canterbury Cathedral Library holds a 1597 copy of The Herbal or General Historie of Plantes: gathered by John Gerarde of London Master…
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May 7, 2019
I is for Ivy
I is for Ivy
Marmite of the plant world, ivy is regarded by many as a gothic horror of a plant, smothering trees and buildings; its dark and dusty…
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May 8, 2019
J is for Jewry
J is for Jewry
The history of the Jewish community in Canterbury is intimately entangled with the surrounding Christian community including the monastery…
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May 9, 2019
K is for Knockers and Knobs
K is for Knockers and Knobs
Rapping a knocker, or knocking with knuckles, has long been a necessary physical act if a visitor is to gain entry to a building or room…
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May 10, 2019
L is for Literature
L is for Literature
Literature is powerful. It engages us, and it forces us think. Its authors deploy a wonderful range of conceits to conjure life and…
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May 11, 2019
M is for Mission, Moshueshue, McKenzie, and Majaliwa
M is for Mission, Moshueshue, McKenzie, and Majaliwa
On 13th June, 1844, Alexander James Hope purchased at auction “an eligible Freehold Property, formerly part of the Monastery of Saint…
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May 12, 2019
N is for Naturalised
N is for Naturalised
Canterbury and its surrounds have been shaped by a range of incoming peoples, some leaving more evident traces in its built heritage than…
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May 13, 2019
O is for Olfactory
O is for Olfactory
Christianity of the early Middle Ages condemned the use of perfume; however olfactory traditions from the Roman empire were gradually…
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May 14, 2019
P is for Pilgrims
P is for Pilgrims
…From every shires ende / Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, / The holy blisful martir for to seke,
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May 15, 2019
Q is for Queen Eleanor
Q is for Queen Eleanor
Queen Eleanor of Provence (b. c. 1223 — d. 1291), the wife of Henry III, and one of England’s lesser-known medieval queens, embarked upon…
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May 16, 2019
R is for Riddley Walker
R is for Riddley Walker
When you stand in ruins of St. Augustine’s Abbey or amongst the tumbled stones of the Cathedral herb garden, site of the medieval monk’s…
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May 17, 2019
S for St Martin’s Church
S for St Martin’s Church
This small gem of a church might well be called the cradle of English Christianity. It is situated on the slope of a hill just outside the…
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May 18, 2019
T is for Tradescant
T is for Tradescant
It is surprising how little we know about the gardens laid out by John Tradescant the elder at St Augustine’s Palace for Edward Wotton…
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May 19, 2019
U is for Undercroft
U is for Undercroft
Canterbury Cathedral’s crypt or ‘Undercroft’ was designed and built to St Anselm’s instructions and begun around 1097. It is the largest…
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May 20, 2019
V is for Via Francigena
V is for Via Francigena
Roads go on / While we forget, and are / Forgotten like a star / That shoots and is gone. Edward Thomas
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May 21, 2019
W is for Wotton
W is for Wotton
Edward Wotton, First Baron of Marley acquired St Augustine’s Palace as part of the Manor of Canterbury in 1612 and commissioned John…
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May 22, 2019
X is for Xylophage
X is for Xylophage
Most A-Z lists start to struggle once they get to the letter ‘X’, as the range of words beginning with ‘X’ is somewhat limited. Xylophone…
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May 23, 2019
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