As well as raising commemorative statues, CCS has promoted Canterbury’s strikingly rich literary, artistic, scientific and ecclesiastical heritage by raising a number of blue plaques around the city. Most notable […]
In the later 20th century, as the life and work of the much-neglected female Restoration writer Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was seeping into the public consciousness after long years of neglect, […]
The Society, assisted by funding from the King’s School, took responsibility for replacing the memorial to the dynamic and somewhat controversial Alderman Simmons (1741-1807) in St Mildred’s Church. A former […]
Little known and often hidden by weeds, two beautiful statues – Alluvia – once lay on the bed of the River Stour beside the Westgate Tower. They were early works […]
On 23 February 2024, at the South Quay Shed, Whitstable Harbour, the Lord Mayor of Canterbury, Councillor Jean Butcher, opened a permanent exhibition of a model of the harbour as […]
In 2022, CCS started holding free public readings of the (cut and edited) plays of Aphra Behn. The project was so successful that in 2023-24 it was expanded to include […]
The Invicta steam locomotive, built by George and Robert Stephenson for the Canterbury-Whitstable railway (aka the ‘Crab and Winkle Line’, the world’s first steam locomotive passenger railway, 1830) was not […]