On Wednesday 31 May, the intrepid Aphra Behn readers chuckled and snorted their way through a cut version Aphra’s bawdily complex drama, The Rover Part II. Commissioned by James Duke […]

The first ever joint meeting with the Canterbury Branch of the Historical Association, held on Thursday 4 May,  was an undoubted success. The packed hall in the King’s School greatly […]

Gathered around a maquette of the proposed new statue of the playwright, on Wednesday 26 April, twelve members of CCS and their friends spent a highly enjoyable evening reading Christopher […]

We are delighted to announce that the Society’s project to provide the City Cemetery with a new location signboard has come to fruition. The project was driven by Trustee Julian […]

Christine Charlesworth is making splendid progress with the Aphra Behn statue. Having covered the skeleton (‘armature’) with little sausages of damp clay, she shaped these into the rough form of […]

On Thursday 23 Feb, the Society returned to its HQ, St Peter’s Anglican Church, to be warmly received by an interior glowing with new heaters and an equally glowing talk […]

St Peter’s Church, our adopted home, has been fitted with new heaters – hooray! To celebrate this welcome development, on Thurs 23 Feb our hon secretary, the incomparable Brian McHenry […]

A visit to Christine Charlesworth’s wonderful studio before Christmas revealed Aphra’s wire and steel skeleton (‘armature’) emerging into the world: month two of statue pregnancy. The artist has wrapped wire […]

On 15 December, the Society met at St Peter’s church for a fascinating talk by Nicholas Reed on Nell Gwynn and Aphra Behn, two women from the Provinces who made […]