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Eftsoons the Reading
The Society’s first reading of the year was Eftsoons the Reckynge, a fascinating a new play by Antonie van den Broek. The drama explores the life of the pioneering playwright […]
A GALAXY OF BRIGHT STARS TO LIGHT UP OUR CITY!
After receiving 50 suggestions for new blue plaques, CCS has drawn up a shortlist of 21 notable individuals and sites it hopes to honour with commemorative plaques. Figures include the […]
Heritage Expo 2026
Following in the footsteps of the Canterbury Society’s most successful Heritage Expo 2024, CCS is hosting the 2026 edition. Plans are already under way for dozens of wide-ranging stalls (birds […]
FEISTY WOMEN TO THE FORE!
The Society ended its busy 2025 programme with a very lively and well-attended talk by Councillor Connie Nolan on the Feisty Women of Canterbury. Focussing on Queen Bertha, the Frankish […]
A Dean on Deans
On Thursday 30 November, the Very Reverend David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury, spoke to the Society on the eyebrow-raising subject, ‘The Deans of Canterbury: The Good, the Bad and the […]
Books are a refuge from the miseries of life!
So thought Somerset Maugham, the great man of letters. On 22 October 2025, Peter Henderson, the Archivist of the King’s School, gave a group of Society members a talk and […]
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Have you seen the Alluvia statue in the River Stour in Canterbury? Created by international artist Jason deCaires Taylor, Alluvia will be formally presented to the public and handed over to Canterbury City Council at 6.30 pm on Sunday 22 September.
Love that locals are freaking out over the new Alluvia statue in the River Stour Canterbury, inspired by Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet - which is said to have been inspired by a 16th century drowning in the Stour.
Especially as it lights up at night - amazing and terrifying
“She should be #Canterbury’s most famous daughter and it’s an absolute crime that she isn’t” – the opening words from @CharloCornell who spoke to us recently about #poet, #playwright & #spy, #AphraBehn: https://www.rotarycanterbury.org.uk/canterbury-rotary-news/aphrabehn-cornell.html
#womenwriters #canterburyhistory #canterburykent
383 years ago today, Aphra Behn (Johnson) was baptised in the village of Harbledown just outside of the city of Canterbury. To meet & be amongst the Aphra experts of the world, you need to be booking for THE conference 2nd - 4th July 2024 @UniKent See bio for booking link.
Yesterday our chair, Stewart and @CharloCornell @AphraStatue went to see the Canterbury-City-bound sculpture of Aphra Behn in all her sandblasted glory at the foundry & met up with the wonderful sculptor Christine Charlesworth to discuss installation, signage and cobbles (!)
The statue of Aphra Behn heading for Canterbury city centre being polished and inspected at the foundry. She’s nearly there: just finishing, trimming, some words & detail to go. What a stunning statue she will be @canterburycc @AphraStatue @CCCU_Culture @UniKentEnglish @mems_ukc
