On Tuesday 20 May the CCS Reading Group tackled Aphra Behn’s much under-rated drama, The Roundheads. Probably the first public performance of the work for several centuries, it proved extremely […]

Another CCS project comes to fruition. We are delighted to announce the installation of an information board in Canterbury cemetery explaining the simple gravestones of all those killed in the […]

Trustees Carolyn Oulton and Stewart were among those invited to attend a symposium in the Beaney on Friday 25 April ’25 to discuss the district’s future culture strategy. The CCS […]

Did you know that the White Hart has a 17th century Civil War corps chute into the cellar? One of the thousand and one fascinating facts and stories related by […]

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Ray Evison on 14 March 2025. Born in Cheshire, Ray was a stalwart servant of the city and […]

Our sincere thanks to Westgate Punts for wading into the Stour with the official CCS statue broom and sweeping the winter debris from our lovely Alluvia. She’s not as new, […]

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 […]