Author Archives: Ruiha Smalley

Medieval Canterbury weekend: 1-3 April, 2006

Medieval Canterbury was internationally important as the site of St Thomas’ shrine, and was on the main highway between London and mainland Europe. It is an ideal setting for a weekend programme of lectures and guided visits that showcase recent … Continue reading

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News for November

On Thursday 26th we will be going to Keycol to help another local group – the Newington Group – weigh and count the Roman pottery assemblage uncovered during our work on the site. We will be applying for funding to … Continue reading

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England’s Places archives

One of the most well-known collections in the Historic England Archive, the Architectural Reed Box Collection, has now been scanned and made available online. The collection consists of over 600,000 photographic prints taken of cities, towns and villages around England, … Continue reading

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World War II: ‘Wartime Domesday’ book showing life in 1939 to be made publicly available online

In a move that will transform the study of key aspects of 20th century British social history, one of the country’s most important data collections is being made available to historians and the general public from 2 November. Historical researchers have … Continue reading

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The end of an era

It has finally come to pass, the Russulla classroom is going next week. Thanks to everyone today for helping with our final tidy out. The room will always hold a lot of memories for our merry band! It’s been everything from … Continue reading

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