Luke Farrell

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-exciti…

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… #KentHeritage #LocalHistory

⚔️ 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.

This week, @ephremishac writes about using #AI to visually reconstruct and complete partially damaged or fragmented #Syriac manuscripts, exploring its benefits and the ethical obligations involved. 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/10/21/syr…

📜 Pre-Modern Race Roundtable 🗓 Thurs 16 Oct | 17:15–18:30 📍 Darwin LT1 & Online 🎙 Dr Sarah Dustagheer, Natalie Tolentino, Georgie Anderson, & Eleanor Hex discuss race, the ‘Other’, fabulation & Digital Humanities in the premodern world.

🔥 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

🌟 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-her…

🎉 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.

@mems_ukc Exciting lineup!

Here is our exciting lineup for the Autumn term! For more information and updates to events, please see: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-early…

🌟Publication Day!🌟 The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

🚀 The 32nd International Cartographic Conference (#ICC2025) is happening in Toronto! 📍 If you’re attending, don’t miss the chance to connect with us and learn more about our publishing activities. 👉 Details: mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/a…

Having a blast in Glasgow, showing off some early stage research @mems_ukc

the Spatial Intelligence for #Cultural #Heritage - SINT4CH workshop at #CVPR2025 attracted a very interdisciplinary audience. Many thanks to all the speakers and the great invited talks! Accepted papers available online: sint4ch.fbk.eu #3D #AI

Natasha Jenman is speaking about digitally interpreting records about Jews in medieval English archives, using network analyses to deconstruct the interactions between Jews and the crown.

We are delighted to announce the publication of REED Suffolk, edited by James Stokes, eighth in our digital series and the second of our East Anglian collections! Find it here ereed.org/collections/su…

🚨 NEW CFP 🚨 The Material Culture pre-1850 Workshop is very pleased to announce a new call for papers on the theme of 'lifecycles'. We are looking for 20 minute papers from researchers of all career stages, deadline 28 April 2025

🚨It might be April Fools Day, but our Easter Term CFP is no joke! This term we're open to papers covering any apsect of Early Modern History - Be sure to get your abstracts in by 18 April!🚨 [DM us for a Plain Text-Version]

Fantastic new article from @VaientiBeatrice and colleagues, using Deformation Analysis to identify copying processes in historical maps, doi.org/10.1080/152304… #GISchat #OpenAccess