The Society is delighted to announce that Professor Elaine Hobby, who has been a vigorous and distinguished supporter of the Aphra Behn Project, has kindly agreed to become our second […]

The four final designs for the Aphra Behn statue have now been revealed and aren’t they gorgeous! Each design has its own hidden secrets and messages, detailing information about the […]

CCS marked Canterbury’s Pride Saturday with a fun-filled reading of Aphra Behn’s riotously amusing but little known play The Younger Brother or The Amorous Jilt. Unperformed since the 1690s, the […]

On Sunday 12 June CCS trustees Charlotte Cornell, David Reekie and Julian Waltho delivered another excellent guided tour of Canterbury. Focussed on the city in the middle of the troubled […]

On the afternoon of Saturday 4 June, Aphra Behn’s best known play, The Rover, was given a vigorous and thoroughly enjoyable reading in St Peter’s Anglican Church by a band […]

Leading TV, film and stage actor Alexandra Gilbreath (Monarch of the Glen, Life Begins, The Bill, Not Going Out, etc) has kindly agreed to speak at the Grand Aphra Behn […]

We are delighted to announce that the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys and the Canterbury Academy have shown their support for the Aphra Behn Statue Project by entering into […]

On the morning of Sunday 8 May, David Reekie, Julian Waltho and Charlotte Cornell led a large troupe of enthralled tourists through the streets of Canterbury in the footsteps of […]

The Society’s programme of fundraising events for the Aphra Behn statue got off to a wonderful start on Friday 29 April. An audience of some 70 fans packed into Lower […]