I chose to study at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent because one of my undergraduate lecturers recommended, very highly recommended, the University of Kent programme. She'd done a summer programme here and said that the interdisciplinarity and the quality of the staff members here were superb, so I put in an application and that was that. I particularly enjoyed during the taught MA my lecturers. I had a couple of very interesting modules involving the archaeology of Canterbury, as well as the documentary history of medieval Canterbury and it really made me connect not only with medieval history but with the medieval history I was living in as a student in Canterbury. The University of Kent provides excellent resources on campus. We have a lot of postgraduate space to work in, an excellent library with a really good Special Collections, but I think the most impressive element for taught Master's, or any postgraduate in Medieval Studies, is the resource of the Cathedral Archives. For the taught MA, we have palaeography, codicology and those are completed in the archives. So, we don't just get digital images and scans, we actually get to look at the most amazing collection of medieval manuscripts in Canterbury Cathedral Archives, which I would not have been able to get in most other places. My advice to students thinking about taking this course is really to just do it, it's it's only a year long unlike some other programmes and you get top-notch instruction in medieval history. You're surrounded by medieval history, you have resources like Canterbury Cathedral Archives at your fingertips and you come out a well-rounded and interdisciplinary scholar.