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Thursday 12 June 2025 7:00pm Talk at the Historic Dockyard Chatham In Conversation With … Anthony Mould. Talk is free but but places need to be booked in advance. Anthony Mould is a fine-art dealer and the founder of his eponymous gallery specialising in British art. Anthony will be discussing the Historic Dockyard Trust’s recent acquisition of a View of Chatham attributed to Ramsay Richard Reinagle. The painting, acquired with support from Art Fund and the V&A Arts Council purchase grant, shows the Dockyard looking north from Jackson’s Field across the river Medway in about 1800.
EVENT CANCELLED Saturday 28 June 2.30 – 4.30pm An immersive Sidney Cooper event at St Peter’s Church, 15 St Peter’s St, Canterbury CT1 2BQ. This event will start with a 40 minute presentation that introduces the life and works of Sidney Cooper, following refreshments there will be a tour of St Peter’s church, one of Canterbury’s oldest churches and where Cooper was baptised. The afternoon will conclude with a reading by ‘Mr Cooper’ from his autobiography. Admission price is £10, and the proceeds will be divided equally between the church and the Sidney Cooper Research Group.
Thursday 3 July 2025 7:00pm Talk at the Historic Dockyard Chatham In Conversation With… Dr Fred Hocker, Vasa Museum “In Life and Death: what the human remains from the VASA (sunken warship) reveal about the people of the 17th century” Fred Hocker, Director of Research at the VASA Museum, will talk about the Swedish warship which sank on its maiden voyage. Talk is free but but places need to be booked in advance
2025 St Thomas More Commemoration Service Sunday 6th July 7:30pm at St Dunstan’s Church. The guest speaker is Professor Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, FRSE. The title of his talk will be “Sir Thomas More and the Saints”. Refreshments will be served afterwards in the church.
Michael Nightingale Memorial Lecture is a joint undertaking between Brook Rural Museum and CKHH. This will be on Tuesday 23 September at 7pm, again with a wine reception from 6.30pm and is an open public lecture. The speaker is Victoria Stevens and the title of her lecture is ‘Conserving Intangibility: the significance of change in heritage collections’
Saturday, 8th November 11am – 4pm Canterbury Society Heritage Expo Event at Westgate Hall. This is expected to be a similar event to last year when there was a series of small talks and over 30 stalls (including CHAS).
More local events of possible interest are advertised on the Centre for Kent History and Heritage webpage.