In 2006 the Society erected statues of King Ethelbert of Kent and Bertha on Lady Wootton’s Green, Canterbury. It was during Ethelbert’s reign that St Augustine came to Canterbury on […]

In 1696, the Irish playwright Thomas Southerne adapted Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko for the stage. Though his version strayed quite widely from the original, it was popular at the time […]

On Saturday 2 July the CCS Aphra Behn play reading group assembled for the third time to tackle one of the works of Canterbury most celebrated daughter. This time it […]

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 […]