On Thursday 13 March the Society heard a fascinating talk by Rory Loughnane of Kent University on the part played by William Shakespeare and Canterbury’s Christopher Marlowe in reshaping Elizabethan […]

On Tuesday 25 February, Her Majesty Queen Camilla did Canterbury Commemoration Society the honour of unveiling Christine Charlesworth’s magnificent statue of Aphra Behn in Canterbury High Street. The statue is […]

The unveiling on 26 January of the new information board about Alderman James Simmons, the great improver of Canterbury in the late 18th century, by Stewart Ross, chair of the […]

The Society’s Secretary and his long suffering wife braved the bitter cold of a January morning to spruce up the tomb of Alderman James Simmons, Canterbury’s Great Tycoon, at St […]

On December 6th, the Society concluded a most eventful year with a jolly and well attended Christmas party that raised several hundred pounds for our funds. The highlight of the […]

We are delighted to report that the tatty temporary information plaque about the Alluvia statue in the River Stour has been replaced by a more presentable (but still temporary) sign. […]

As very little work by Aphra Behn was available on loan from our library, we are making a small donation of some books, with CCS bookplates, as part of our […]

We are delighted to report that engineers have been busy excavating in front of the Beaney in preparation for laying the concrete foundations for Christine Charlesworth’s beautiful statue of the […]

In a witty and excellently researched talk on Friday 15 November, Ian Osterloh laid bare some of the shenanigans going on behind (and sometimes in front of) the scenes in […]