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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Before the devastating siege of 1992-96, Sarajevo was a haven of cosmopolitan harmony. Goran Stefanovsky’s eponymous drama Sarajevo, presented by the CCS readers on Thursday 16 October, movingly presents a […]

The splendid Alluvia statue, commissioned by CCS, created by world famous artist Jason deCares Taylor and installed in the River Stour neat the Westgate, is up for a prestigious award. […]

On 4 September 2025 the Lord Mayor unveiled eight blue plaques on the Longport wall of St Augustine’s Abbey. The Society worked with the Canterbury Society and the Nubian Jak […]