Trinity Lends to Roskilde Museum

Sub-Librarian Steven Archer describes why a medieval manuscript is so important to Roskilde, Denmark. In the year 1022, King Cnut, ruler of both England and Denmark, assembled a group of his nobles and church leaders on St Æthelthryth’s Day (23 June) to witness the grant of a piece of land at Wood Ditton to the …

Prior Wibert’s Waterworks Plan

A guest blog by Professor Paul Bennett, Director of Canterbury Archaeological Trust from 1984 to 2020. In the mid-1160s, when Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury, a map was drawn of the Cathedral and its surrounding Benedictine Priory buildings to show a newly built aqueduct and its structures within and outside the city walls. This …