MEMS
@memsunikent.bsky.social
The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
Exciting year ahead in Kent!
From the Canterbury Medieval Weekend to Dover at Night, MEMS Fest, the Cinque Ports Conference & more! 2026 is packed with history, research, and community events.
See the full lineup ➜ kchh.org/lots-of-exciting-kent-mems-events-in-2026/
From the Canterbury Medieval Weekend to Dover at Night, MEMS Fest, the Cinque Ports Conference & more! 2026 is packed with history, research, and community events.
See the full lineup ➜ kchh.org/lots-of-exciting-kent-mems-events-in-2026/
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Exciting year ahead in Kent!
From the Canterbury Medieval Weekend to Dover at Night, MEMS Fest, the Cinque Ports Conference & more! 2026 is packed with history, research, and community events.
See the full lineup ➜ kchh.org/lots-of-exciting-kent-mems-events-in-2026/
From the Canterbury Medieval Weekend to Dover at Night, MEMS Fest, the Cinque Ports Conference & more! 2026 is packed with history, research, and community events.
See the full lineup ➜ kchh.org/lots-of-exciting-kent-mems-events-in-2026/
From the Medway History Showcase (26–27 Oct 2024) to Medieval Canterbury Weekend (1–3 May 2026) — Kent’s history comes alive! 🕰️
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From the Medway History Showcase (26–27 Oct 2024) to Medieval Canterbury Weekend (1–3 May 2026) — Kent’s history comes alive! 🕰️
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
Find details & highlights 👇
🔗 kchh.org/medway-history-showcase-plus-forthcoming-events
#KentHeritage #LocalHistory
October 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
⚔️ Assassins vs. Templars — Myth, Blood & History
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
⚔️ Assassins vs. Templars — Myth, Blood & History
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
Join Steve Tibble for this year’s MEMS Anselm Lecture.
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
🕕 6 pm
📍 Templeman Lecture Theatre, UKC
💬 Free | No booking needed
Post-lecture drinks, sponsored by CAMEMS.
📜 Pre-Modern Race Roundtable
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
October 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
📜 Pre-Modern Race Roundtable
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30
📍 Darwin LT1 & Online (Teams)
🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race in the medieval and early modern worlds, from the ‘Other’ and fabulation to Digital Humanities and Premodern Race Studies.
🔥 This Thursday in Canterbury! 🔥
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
October 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🔥 This Thursday in Canterbury! 🔥
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
Join Jonathan Sumption for “The Hundred Years War and its Legacy.”
🕕 Lecture 7pm (AGM 6.15pm)
📍 Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, CCCU
💷 Free for HA members & students • £5 visitors
🌟 Missed last week’s Nightingale Lecture? Catch up with Sheila Sweetinburh’s latest blog post on conserving heritage in Kent & Canterbury. A great read! 👉 kchh.org/conserving-h...
October 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🌟 Missed last week’s Nightingale Lecture? Catch up with Sheila Sweetinburh’s latest blog post on conserving heritage in Kent & Canterbury. A great read! 👉 kchh.org/conserving-h...
🎉 A big welcome to our new MEMS MA & PhD cohort! 🎓✨
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🎉 A big welcome to our new MEMS MA & PhD cohort! 🎓✨
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
We’re thrilled to have such a brilliant group of minds joining the MEMS family.
Looking forward to this interesting event tomorrow at Canterbury Cathedral!
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Looking forward to this interesting event tomorrow at Canterbury Cathedral!
You can still register to meet us this evening!! We look forward to meeting all of you.
✨ Considering doing a MA or PhD with us? ✨
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
March 13, 2024 at 12:28 PM
You can still register to meet us this evening!! We look forward to meeting all of you.
✨ Considering doing a MA or PhD with us? ✨
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
March 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM
✨ Considering doing a MA or PhD with us? ✨
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you!
For more info & registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...
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Delighted to see this new @leverhulme.bsky.social -funded Doctoral Scholarships Programme has made it onto here. KOM is an innovative partnership between @kcl.ac.uk and @memsunikent.bsky.social . Follow @komldsp.bsky.social - I know there is exciting news coming soon about funding and projects!
We are extremely grateful to @leverhulme.bsky.social for its generous funding which makes this new Doctoral Scholarship Programme possible. This is the official feed for Knowledge Orders before Modernity (KOM for short) - follow us to find out more about how to apply and the projects we support.
February 19, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Delighted to see this new @leverhulme.bsky.social -funded Doctoral Scholarships Programme has made it onto here. KOM is an innovative partnership between @kcl.ac.uk and @memsunikent.bsky.social . Follow @komldsp.bsky.social - I know there is exciting news coming soon about funding and projects!
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We are extremely grateful to @leverhulme.bsky.social for its generous funding which makes this new Doctoral Scholarship Programme possible. This is the official feed for Knowledge Orders before Modernity (KOM for short) - follow us to find out more about how to apply and the projects we support.
February 19, 2024 at 11:09 AM
We are extremely grateful to @leverhulme.bsky.social for its generous funding which makes this new Doctoral Scholarship Programme possible. This is the official feed for Knowledge Orders before Modernity (KOM for short) - follow us to find out more about how to apply and the projects we support.
Want to learn more about #iconoclasm?
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
February 8, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Want to learn more about #iconoclasm?
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
On March 11th, @CburyCathedral is hosting 'Destruction in the Cathedral: A study day’ and will also be celebrating the acquisition of a 17th-cent painting!
Some of our members will be speaking on the topic, see who is here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at the Centre, and more are on their way. First, a massive congratulations to everyone who passed their viva & submitted! 🥳 And save the date for our future events!
Watch the video on Insta:
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Watch the video on Insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/C2-QwEH...
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February 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Our first #MEMSNews of 2024! Already lots of exciting things have happened at the Centre, and more are on their way. First, a massive congratulations to everyone who passed their viva & submitted! 🥳 And save the date for our future events!
Watch the video on Insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/C2-QwEH...
Watch the video on Insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/C2-QwEH...
We are incredibly grateful to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding ‘Knowledge Orders before Modernity: a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme’ co-led by our own @drdavidrundle.bsky.social & Prof Julia Crick at KCL. This is an incredible opportunity that will allow us to fund more students
February 2, 2024 at 2:37 PM
We are incredibly grateful to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding ‘Knowledge Orders before Modernity: a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme’ co-led by our own @drdavidrundle.bsky.social & Prof Julia Crick at KCL. This is an incredible opportunity that will allow us to fund more students
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The video recordings for our MEMS Seminars with Dr Peter Good and Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh are now available for viewing! Check out the posts below! 🧵 ⬇️
February 1, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The video recordings for our MEMS Seminars with Dr Peter Good and Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh are now available for viewing! Check out the posts below! 🧵 ⬇️
The recording for Dr Ryan Perry’s talk will be available next week :)
February 1, 2024 at 5:51 PM
The recording for Dr Ryan Perry’s talk will be available next week :)
The recording is now available :)
February 1, 2024 at 5:50 PM
The recording is now available :)
February 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Dr Peter Good’s talk on the Indian Ocean Trade of Persian Wine: youtu.be/cmCShIiUZI4
February 1, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Dr Peter Good’s talk on the Indian Ocean Trade of Persian Wine: youtu.be/cmCShIiUZI4
The video recordings for our MEMS Seminars with Dr Peter Good and Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh are now available for viewing! Check out the posts below! 🧵 ⬇️
February 1, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The video recordings for our MEMS Seminars with Dr Peter Good and Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh are now available for viewing! Check out the posts below! 🧵 ⬇️
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A delight to be hearing our @memsunikent.bsky.social colleague, Ryan Perry, begin his seminar paper on his @leverhulme.bsky.social project on fifteenth-century London devotional literature.
February 1, 2024 at 5:10 PM
A delight to be hearing our @memsunikent.bsky.social colleague, Ryan Perry, begin his seminar paper on his @leverhulme.bsky.social project on fifteenth-century London devotional literature.
Good morning!
Our event later today is a fantastic talk on medieval manuscripts, more precisely common profit books! Dr Ryan Perry will share with us some exciting new research on the topic.
The talk is hybrid and will also be recorded. Don’t miss out!
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
Our event later today is a fantastic talk on medieval manuscripts, more precisely common profit books! Dr Ryan Perry will share with us some exciting new research on the topic.
The talk is hybrid and will also be recorded. Don’t miss out!
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#BookHistory friends, join us tomorrow for what promises to be an excellent evening with the equally excellent @RMMPerry!
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
February 1, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Good morning!
Our event later today is a fantastic talk on medieval manuscripts, more precisely common profit books! Dr Ryan Perry will share with us some exciting new research on the topic.
The talk is hybrid and will also be recorded. Don’t miss out!
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
Our event later today is a fantastic talk on medieval manuscripts, more precisely common profit books! Dr Ryan Perry will share with us some exciting new research on the topic.
The talk is hybrid and will also be recorded. Don’t miss out!
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#BookHistory friends, join us tomorrow for what promises to be an excellent evening with the equally excellent @RMMPerry!
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
January 31, 2024 at 1:38 PM
#BookHistory friends, join us tomorrow for what promises to be an excellent evening with the equally excellent @RMMPerry!
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts
📜 A New Look At The Common Profit Book Phenomenon
📆 Thurs 1st Feb, 5pm, DLT1 & Teams
👉 Join here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
#medievalsky #manuscripts