KAS 27/09/2023 KAS 27/09/2023

Sarum Missal, 16th century

Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library volunteer Beverley Jacobs leafs through the 16th-century Sarum Missal, a remnant from the final days of the Priory Library.

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KAS 21/09/2023 KAS 21/09/2023

Changing Queenships in 10th Century England: Rhetoric and (Self) Representation in the Case of Eadgifu at Kent in Cooling

Jonathan Tickle, 2023, Early Medieval Europe, 31: 598–628. [Research supported by the Allen Grove Local History Fund of the Kent Archaeological Society].

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KAS 03/08/2023 KAS 03/08/2023

The Danelaw, 9th-11th century

Dr Alexander Thomas introduces the Danelaw; an 11th-century name for the areas of Northern and Eastern England in which the laws of the Danish Viking empire from the late 9th century until the early 11th century.

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Jacob Scott 07/12/2022 Jacob Scott 07/12/2022

Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380

The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.

Jacob Scott 29/11/2022 Jacob Scott 29/11/2022

Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088

Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).

Jacob Scott 29/10/2020 Jacob Scott 29/10/2020

Black Boy Alley, Rochester: Origin and heritage

Jacob Scott investigates the origins of the name of an alley in Rochester.