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Who We Are

Kenneth Fincham: Life President

Kenneth Fincham is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on English religion and politics in the period 1547-1700, including Prelate as Pastor: the Episcopate of James I (1990); has co-authored, with Nicholas Tyacke, Altar Restored: the Changing Face of English Religious Worship (2007); and has edited three volumes for the Church of England Record Society, most recently The Further Correspondence of William Laud (2018). He is currently worked on the Hampton Court conference of 1604, The Return of the Church of England in 1660-3 and the creation of Anglicanism c.1620-c.1750.  He is a co-Director of the Clergy of the Church of England database project; and is a former Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society. He has also been a committee member of the Canterbury branch of the Historical Association since 1993.

Kieron Hoyle: Trustee

Kieron is currently a final year PhD student researching Dover’s ancient Maison Dieu under the Tudors and its relations with the town and port of Dover and the Crown and in particular its use as a Tudor victualling yard.  Kieron has experience in both teaching and research, having worked as a history teacher in Kent and a senior lecturer in education at Canterbury Christ Church University. She divides her time between Kent and the Somme where she researches the history of the First World War from her French farmhouse.

Harry Gilbert: Trustee

Harry J. Gilbert is a PhD candidate with the University of Kent's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) whose project explores memory, and traditions of remembrance expressed through the written word, at Rochester Cathedral Priory following the Norman Conquest. As well as being a trustee for CAMEMS, Harry is the co-founder and president of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (CHASE MEMRN), and a member of the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild

John Manley: Trustee & Treasurer

Armed with a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics from Leicester University, John Manley spent 40 years working around the world as a reporter and editor for, among other news organisations, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.  After completing a BA in History with the Open University and an MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Kent, he is now undertaking a PhD at Kent researching religious writings on belief and magic from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. When not poring over Middle English manuscripts, he plays the cello and follows Celtic FC. 
 

Robert Pay: Trustee & Benefactor

Robert was educated at Kent College, Canterbury, the University of Oxford where he graduated in Modern History & Languages and City University where he earned an MBA. After a career in finance and professional services in London and New York took the taught MA course at the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies. He is currently the Chairman of the Employee Share Ownership Centre. He is also Programme Director at Sandwich Local History Society and Chairman of St. Mary’s Community Trust, Sandwich. 

Anna-Nadine Pike: Trustee

Anna-Nadine is a doctoral student at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. Her doctoral research uses the manuscripts of Esther Inglis as a lens through which to understand the role of script, illumination, and materiality in post-reformation devotional practice in Britain. Alongside her PhD, Anna is also the Project Curator for “Esther Inglis 2024” at Edinburgh University Library - a project working to raise the profile of Esther Inglis and her manuscript crafts through new research, exhibitions, and public engagement activities. Anna holds previous degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Kent and has worked as Special Collections Curatorial Assistant in the Library of New College, Oxford.  

Sheila Sweetinburgh: Trustee

Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh lectures in Medieval & Early Modern Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent. She is co-director of the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at CCCU, for which she writes a highly acclaimed weekly blog and organises the annual History Weekends. She has contributed to numerous local and regional history publications including editing two volumes in the Kent History Project: Early Medieval Kent, 800-1220 (2016) and Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (2010) as well as Maritime Kent through the Ages (2020) and Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400-c.1600 (2013). She is currently working on a 3-year funded project on Kent's Maritime Communities with Dr Craig Lambert (University of Southampton).