The AGM on 2 July was followed by a splendidly informative talk, accessible yet based on sound scholarship, by Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok on the Jews of Canterbury. He outlined how a thriving Jewish community at the heart of the city, serving church and citizens, was cruelly expelled in the 13th century. Four hundred years later, a new community was founded outside the city walls (the cemetery still survives) and later built the fine Egyptian-style synagogue in King’s Street. The talk was followed by eager questions and a small but lively party.