Archives
- 08 Feb On The Marsh
- 01 Jan Landscape Art and Canterbury Cathedral
- 01 Jan Cooper's Pit
- 01 Jan Canterbury Cathedral in its Landscape Setting
- 30 Dec Westgate Towers
- 30 Dec Wateringbury
- 30 Dec Sandgate
- 30 Dec Romney Marsh
- 30 Dec 21st Century Rochester
- 30 Dec Rochester
- 30 Dec The Medway Towns
- 30 Dec Margate Beach
- 30 Dec Jumping Downs
- 30 Dec Hop Picking
- 30 Dec The Fisherman's Bride
- 30 Dec Brockhill Park, Sunday Afternoon
- 30 Dec Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
- 30 Dec Women's Suffrage and Whitstable
- 30 Dec John Galsworthy 14 August 1867–1933
- 15 Dec Sound Mirrors
- 01 Dec Recycling Roman material in Early Medieval Canterbury
- 01 Dec Dover Castle in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
- 01 Sep Jason de Claires Taylor’s ‘Alluvia’
- 07 Jun Romney Marsh during WWII
- 05 Jun Whiteways
- 05 Jun Mulberries at Finglesham
- 05 Jun Ham Brooks, Seen from the Main Road
- 05 Jun Coming Home from Eastry: Early January Afternoon
- 05 Jun The Back Path at Wingham
- 05 Jun Pioneers of Flight: The Role of the Isle of Sheppey in the Birth of British Aviation
- 23 Apr Guglielmo Marconi (1874 –1937)
- 14 Apr Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)
- 01 Apr Canterbury Free Library
- 09 Mar Primrose Cumming (1915-2004)
- 08 Feb River Dour
- 05 Feb Coach Tour of Joseph Conrad’s Homes in Kent
- 01 Feb A Tribute to My Father
- 16 Dec Jacqueline Winspear (1955- )
- 16 Dec John Ruskin
- 17 Nov Walter Tull
- 09 Nov Albert Makaula White
- 08 Oct Billy Waters
- 06 Oct Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
- 01 Oct Folklore and the Blue Bell Hill Megaliths
- 08 Sep Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
- 01 Sep William Cuffay
- 01 Aug A Boy of Kent, 1974 – 1989 - Reminiscences of a Railway Worker
- 01 Aug A Hop-Picking Holiday in Kent in Margaret Harkness’s In Darkest London”
- 30 Jul Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924)
- 27 Mar Reginald Koettlitz FRCS, MRCS Eng., LRCP Edin (1860-1916)
- 22 Mar Dover at Night
- 17 Mar Video Example
- 14 Mar Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756)
- 01 Mar Rochester
- 01 Mar Medieval Canterbury
- 01 Mar Literary Encounters Along the River Stour
- 01 Mar Recommended Reading
- 01 Mar Image usage examples
- 01 Mar Gravesend
- 01 Mar Folkestone
- 01 Mar Edwin Drood: a Curated Walk
- 01 Mar Dymchurch
- 01 Mar Dickens and Dover
- 01 Mar Walking the Desire Line: Writing Beyond the A to B
- 01 Mar Convicts in Kent
- 01 Mar Seaside resorts
- 01 Mar Theatrical Entertainment in Canterbury
- 01 Mar Jane Austen: Tunbridge Wells
- 01 Mar Jane Austen and Sevenoaks
- 01 Mar Jane Austen, Ramsgate
- 01 Mar Jane Austen: Godmersham
- 01 Mar Jane Austen: Chilham Castle
- 01 Mar Jane Austen, Canterbury
- 01 Mar Women's Suffrage In Dover
- 01 Mar William Pett Ridge (1859-1930)
- 01 Mar Walter James, Fourth Lord Northbourne, ‘Inventor of Organic Farming’
- 01 Mar Keith Douglas, 1920-1944
- 01 Mar 20th-Century Canterbury: Transport
- 01 Mar 20th-Century Canterbury: Museums, Visitor Experience and the Cathedral
- 01 Mar Ellen Wood (1814-1887)
- 01 Mar Queen Victoria and West Cliff House
- 01 Mar Sherlock Holmes and Canterbury
- 01 Mar Rosherville
- 01 Mar Music in Canterbury
- 01 Mar Overview of the Nineteenth Century
- 01 Mar Sir John Herschel (1792 –1871)
- 01 Mar George Grossmith (1847-1912)
- 01 Mar Maidstone Convict Prison
- 01 Mar Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806)
- 01 Mar John Boys (1749-1824)
- 01 Mar Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707)
- 01 Mar Sheppey at war in the 17th century
- 01 Mar Plum Pudding Riots
- 01 Mar Sheppey at war in the 16th century
- 01 Mar Leonard and Thomas Digges
- 29 Feb A Sin of Omission by Marguerite Poland
- 02 Feb Kentish place-names – ‘Riddley world’
- 02 Feb Kentish place-names and the literary imagination
- 02 Feb Lord Northcliffe
- 01 Feb Doodlebugs in Kent
- 27 Jan May Aldington (1872-1954)
- 03 Jan Kent’s 18th-century Gang War
- 01 Jan Josephine Butler
- 27 Dec H.E. Bates
- 14 Dec Charles Carrick
- 24 Oct Amy Johnson
- 01 Oct Henry Gardiner Adams (1812-1881)
- 01 Oct Adelaide Bartlett
- 29 Aug Mary Kelly (1927-2017)
- 28 Aug D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
- 11 Aug Julian Symons (1912-1994)
- 01 Aug Dinah Craik
- 05 Jul Georgina Hogarth and Ellen Ternan
- 01 Jul Kent Piers
- 13 Jun The Convict Hulks of Kent
- 01 Jun Crime Fiction
- 01 Jun Victorian Turkish baths
- 01 Jun Ellen woz here
- 01 Jun Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) (1815-1882)
- 12 May David Baron (1855 – 1926)
- 01 May Deal's War On The Shore
- 01 May Canterbury Prison in the Twentieth Century
- 01 May Canterbury Corrective Borstal
- 01 May Canterbury Gaol in the Nineteenth Century
- 07 Apr A Ramsgate Summer
- 07 Apr All Aboard the Hoy
- 06 Apr Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) and Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880)
- 01 Apr Augustus Welby Pugin (1812 –1852)
- 01 Apr Beau Nash’s Tunbridge Wells
- 13 Mar William Burges (1827-1881)
- 01 Mar Romney Marsh and Sepulchre Street
- 01 Mar Siegfried Sassoon (8 September 1886 to 1 September 1967)
- 25 Feb Charles Shadwell (1672-5? – 1726)
- 16 Feb Lullingstone Roman Villa
- 16 Feb Jessie Challacombe (1864-1925)
- 15 Feb Alfred Moberly (1835-1912)
- 15 Feb Francis Hobart Hemery (1847-1879)
- 01 Feb P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
- 01 Feb Sarah Baker and her Kentish Theatres (1737-1816)
- 25 Jan Daphne Oram (1925–2003)
- 09 Jan Anna Maria Hussey, née Reed (5 June 1805 – 26 August 1853)
- 08 Jan S.C. Nethersole (1869-1956)
- 06 Jan Edith Katherine Spicer Jay (6 March 1847- 3 December 1901)
- 06 Jan Joan of Kent (1328-1385): the first Princess of Wales
- 01 Jan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- 01 Dec Invicta Park Barracks
- 01 Dec Henrietta Vaughan Stannard [Pseud. John Strange Winter]
- 01 Dec F. F. Montrésor (1862-1934)
- 22 Nov Archibald Campbell Tait (1811 –1882)
- 03 Nov Rochester and Chatham – the pioneers of Jewish emancipation
- 01 Nov Joseph Pyke (1824-1902)
- 01 Nov Convalescent Homes
- 01 Nov Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
- 01 Nov William Harvey (1578 – 1657)
- 04 Oct Eliza Lynn Linton and Gad’s Hill
- 06 Sep Dickens and Friends
- 02 Sep John Edensor Littlewood
- 01 Sep Convicts in Kent
- 01 Sep Chatham Convict Prison
- 25 Aug John Lyly c.1553 or 1554 – 1606
- 16 Jul William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
- 04 Jul Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857)
- 01 Jul Hugh Price Hughes (1847 – 1902)
- 26 Jun Henry Russell (1812-1900)
- 20 Jun Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)
- 13 Jun May Aldington (1872-1954)
- 01 Jun The Cinque Ports
- 01 Jun Louis Wain
- 01 Jun Hans Christian Anderson
- 01 Jun Mrs Elizabeth Burgess (1737-1825)
- 26 May Mary Ann/ Marian Evans [pseud. George Eliot] (1819 –1880)
- 03 May The Winter Diary of a Country Rat by Peter Firmin
- 01 May Battle of Britain Memorial
- 01 Apr Jocelyn Brooke (1908-1966)
- 01 Apr The Maid of Kent: Elizabeth Barton
- 28 Mar Impressions from a Bolthole Window
- 27 Mar Noël Coward
- 25 Mar Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- 05 Mar Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910)
- 19 Feb Nora Geraldine Gordon Salmon (pseud. J.G. Sarasin) (1897 – 1976)
- 18 Feb Mary Cowden Clarke
- 01 Feb The Great Storm of 1987
- 01 Feb George Meredith (1828-1909)
- 01 Feb Robert Plot (1640 – 1696)
- 01 Feb John Tradescant the Younger (1608 – 1662)
- 02 Jan Bertha Porter (1852-1941)
- 01 Jan Thomas Frost (1821-1908)
- 19 Dec Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947)
- 11 Dec Florence Warden (Florence Alice James) (1857 – 1929)
- 04 Dec Miss Balmaine's Past by Bithia Croker
- 01 Dec John Ferguson (1871-1952)
- 13 Nov George Augustus Sala (1828 –1895)
- 28 Oct The Spanish Armada and Kent
- 17 Oct Mary L. Pendered (1858 – 1940)
- 08 Oct Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841)
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit, Scotney Castle
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit, the Romney Marsh and St Mary's Bay
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit, River Medway
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit, Penshurst
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit, Lee
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit, Halstead
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit, Dymchurch
- 01 Oct Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
- 01 Oct Deal by the sea
- 01 Oct Gladys Waterer (1885 - 1971)
- 01 Oct Ian Fleming (1908 – 1964)
- 01 Oct Gravesend in the nineteenth century
- 01 Oct William Dyce (1806-1864)
- 01 Oct Richard Dadd (1817-1886)
- 02 Sep Ann Walker (1803-1854)
- 01 Sep All Saints parish church of Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey
- 01 Sep Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)
- 20 Aug Catherine Ann Crowe (née Stevens) (1790-1872)
- 11 Aug Edmund Blunden
- 01 Aug The National Fruit Collections at Brogdale: an Insider View
- 01 Aug Mapping radical dissent: the Kent Miners, militancy and workers’ education
- 01 Aug Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1814-1906
- 01 Aug Ann Radcliffe (1764 – 1823)
- 29 Jul Israel Zangwill (21 January 1864 - 1 August 1926)
- 01 Jul U. A. Fanthorpe (Ursula Askham Fanthorpe) (1929-2009)
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: World War II
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Universities
- 01 Jul 20th-century Canterbury: Trade
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: A Canterbury Tale
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Retail
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Railway
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Planning
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Overview
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Industrial
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Home
- 01 Jul Floods in Canterbury, 1909
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Education
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Commerce
- 01 Jul 20th-Century Canterbury: Boom City
- 09 Jun Hengest and Horsa
- 01 Jun The Battle of Crayford
- 01 Jun Sarah Grand 1854-1943
- 08 May George Alfred Henty (1832-1902)
- 01 May St. Peter and St. Paul’s, Headcorn
- 01 May St Mary the Virgin, Fordwich
- 01 May St. John the Baptist, Small Hythe
- 01 May St. Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone
- 01 May The Hidden Gems of Parochial Kent
- 01 May Shepherds in Sackcloth by Sheila Kaye-Smith
- 01 May John Brent (1808-1882)
- 01 Apr The secret war tunnels of Dover Castle
- 01 Apr R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943)
- 01 Apr Dora Jordan (1761-1816)
- 16 Mar Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and France
- 12 Mar Writers of Romney Marsh
- 12 Mar Comports of Cooling and Great Expectations
- 11 Mar Contagious Diseases Acts and Lock Hospitals
- 09 Mar Mary Tourtel (1874-1948)
- 01 Mar Waterstones, Canterbury, 1990 to 2020
- 01 Mar Starting university in the Covid year
- 01 Mar Marian Peck (1897-1974)
- 01 Mar William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
- 01 Mar William Henry Longhurst (1819–1904)
- 01 Mar Canterbury in the 19th Century
- 01 Mar Aphra Behn (1640? – 1689)
- 28 Feb Charlotte Brown Carmichael Stopes (1840-1929)
- 25 Feb Gertrude Warden (Gertrude Isabel Price) (1859-1925)
- 22 Feb In Margate by Lunchtime
- 16 Feb Thomas Goodban (1784-1863)
- 15 Feb Cathedral Singers
- 15 Feb Canterbury Catch Club
- 09 Feb Francis Storr the Elder and Younger
- 01 Feb ‘Scapes and Fringes’- engaging with cultural landscapes
- 01 Feb Chalk pits, Ash and Stig of the Dump
- 01 Feb 21st Century Margate
- 01 Feb Journal Extracts 2007-2018
- 01 Feb Hop and fruit picking in the 20th century
- 01 Feb Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941)
- 01 Feb James Shoubridge (c.1805-1872)
- 01 Feb Charles Darwin 1809-1882
- 01 Feb Kentish Gazette
- 01 Feb John Wallis (1616-1703)
- 17 Jan Belgian WW1 Refugees
- 07 Jan Derek Jarman (1942-1994)
- 05 Jan John Keats (1795-1821)
- 01 Jan Traveller's Joy
- 01 Jan S.E. Winbolt (1868-1944)
- 01 Jan Rupert Bear
- 01 Jan Donald Maxwell (1877-1936)
- 01 Jan M. R. James OM FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936)
- 01 Jan E.M. Forster
- 01 Jan Double Double by John Brunner
- 01 Jan Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
- 22 Dec Netta Syrett (17 March 1865-15 December 1943)
- 18 Dec Mobile Landscapes
- 17 Dec Geoffrey Chaucer c.1340s-1400
- 01 Dec Kentish literary landscapes and pays
- 01 Dec The Kentish Chalk
- 01 Dec Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
- 19 Nov Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
- 01 Nov Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
- 01 Nov Wilfred Owen
- 01 Nov Alfred Cohen 1920-2001
- 14 Oct Dickens in the Medway
- 01 Oct Folkestone Free Library
- 01 Oct M. E. Braddon (1835-1915)
- 01 Sep Ellen Terry’s funeral, 24 July 1928
- 01 Sep Dame (Alice) Ellen Terry (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928)
- 01 Sep Christopher Marie St John (24 October 1871 – 20 October 1960)
- 01 Sep Diana & Tony Powell-Cotton
- 01 Sep Cicely Hamilton (15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952)
- 01 Aug Edith “Edy” Craig (9 December 1869 – 27 March 1947)
- 01 Aug Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
- 21 Jul G. W. M. Reynolds (1814 – 1879)
- 21 Jul Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
- 19 Jul Herbert George Wells (H.G Wells) (1866-1946)
- 19 Jul Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S Eliot) (1888-1965)
- 13 Jul David Seabrook (1960-2009)
- 03 Jul The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- 01 Jul Dickens and Deal
- 01 Jul Pamela Wynne (Winifred Mary Scott, née Watson) 1879-1959
- 01 Jul Richborough: the Secret Port
- 01 Jul Victoria Holt (1906-1993), a pseudonym of Eleanor Hibbert
- 01 Jul Folkestone and World War 1
- 01 Jul Margaret Emily Shore (1819-1839)
- 01 Jul Seaside resorts
- 01 Jul Bessie Marchant (1862-1941)
- 01 Jul John Marsh (1752-1828)
- 01 Jul Henry James (1843-1916)
- 01 Jul Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- 01 Jul Chatham Dockyard
- 01 Jul Charles Henry Dobson
- 01 Jul The Catch
- 01 Jul The Bloody Code
- 21 Jun Robert Barr (1849-1912)
- 01 Jun Leather Bottle, The Street, Cobham, Gravesend
- 01 Jun The Ship and Lobster
- 01 Jun Restoration House (Satis House)
- 01 Jun The Guildhall, Rochester
- 01 Jun Great Expectations - a curated walk
- 01 Jun Cooling
- 01 Jun Eastgate House, Rochester
- 01 Jun Charles Dickens's Swiss Chalet
- 01 Jun Gad's Hill, Higham
- 01 Jun Fort House (Bleak House)
- 01 Jun Dickens and Folkestone
- 01 Jun Dickens and Chatham
- 01 Jun Dickens and Broadstairs
- 01 Jun Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- 01 Jun 2 Nuckell’s Place, Victoria Parade, Broadstairs
- 01 Jun Mapping the Dover Road: David Copperfield’s journey
- 01 Jun David Copperfield - a curated walk
- 01 Jun Dickens and Canterbury
- 01 Jun Broadstairs in the nineteenth century
- 01 Jun Leather and dust: David Copperfield’s shoes and the Dover Road
- 01 Jun The Hooden Horse: an East Kent tradition
- 01 May Staplehurst Railway Disaster 1865
- 01 May Goodwin Sands
- 01 May William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
- 01 May Queen Victoria at Walmer Castle
- 01 May Princess Victoria at Broadstairs
- 01 May Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
- 01 May Princess Victoria and Ramsgate
- 01 May Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
- 01 May R.D. Blackmore (1825-1900)
- 01 Apr Elizabeth von Arnim. Pseudonym of Mary Beauchamp (1866-1941)
- 01 Apr Ramsgate in the nineteenth century
- 01 Apr Margate in the nineteenth century
- 01 Apr Folkestone in the nineteenth century
- 01 Apr Dover in the 19th century
- 01 Apr Arden of Faversham (Author unknown)
- 20 Oct Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847)
- 01 Aug Jane Austen