Kentish Bibliography, 2023
Compilers: Deborah Saunders and Prof. D. Killingray.
A bibliography of books, articles, reports, pamphlets published in the calendar year 2023, unless otherwise stated.
GENERAL AND MULTI-PERIOD
Gabor, T., ‘In The Shadow Of Saints: the long duree of Lyminge, Kent, as a sacred Christian landscape’, Archaeologia, 112 (London: Society of Antiquaries).
Harris, O. D., ‘Grey Dolphin’ and the Horse Church, Minster in Sheppey: the construction of a legend’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 97-123.
Rabin, A., ‘Bede, Æthelberht, and the Examples of The Romans in Early Medieval England’, Early Medieval Europe, 31, 4, 563-584.
Weekes, J. et al., Farming, Everyday Life and Ritual: 6,000 years of archaeology of Thanet Earth (Canterbury: Canterbury Archaeology Trust).
Wilson, J., ‘Bronze Age Enclosures & Medieval Saxon-Norman Bakehouses: excavations at Coldharbour Road, Gravesend’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 23-57.
Willett, C. et al., Kent: Building Stones of England. 2nd edition (Swindon: Historic England).
PREHISTORIC KENT
Hayden, C., D. Score, and T. Haines, ‘Late Bronze Age Funerary Practices And Subsequent Activity
At Pinden Quarry, Southfleet’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 124-151.
Hoskins, R., ‘A Neolithic Flint Axe From East Wear Bay, Folkestone’, Archaeologia Cantiana,
cxliii, 327-328.
Ingrey, L. et al., ‘On The Discovery of A Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe From The Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent’, Internet Archeology, 61. https://doi.org/1.11141/ia.61.6.
Knowles, P., ‘A New Palaeolithic Handaxe Discovery From The Fordwich Plateau’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 323-326.
Wilson, T., ‘A Prehistoric Monumental Landscape At The Meads, Sittingbourne’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 73-96.
ROMAN KENT
Durham, A., ‘The Roman Name of Canterbury and Later Misunderstandings’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 302-321.
Holman, J. and C. Russell, ‘Richborough Connection Project: some evidence of early Bronze Age spelt wheat and late Iron Age/Roman field systems at Hoath’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 243- 252.
ANGLO-SAXON KENT
Insley, C., ‘Naval Warfare, The State And The Archbishops of Canterbury In The Tenth And Eleventh Centuries’, The Haskins Society Journal, 33, 1-12 (2021).
Lloyd, J., ‘Eadgifu, Governor of Kent, in a Lost Charter of Edgar’, Anglo-Saxon England. Published online by Cambridge University Press 2023: 1-17. https://doi.10.1017/S026367512200014X.[pg359]
Tickle, J., ‘Changing Queenships In Tenth-Century England: rhetoric and (self-) representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent’ Early Medieval Europe, 31, 4, 598-628.
MEDIEVAL KENT
Allen, T., ‘Poor People In Hovels: a review of life at the bottom of medieval Kentish society following excavation of a low-status settlement at Monkton, Thanet’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 187- 215.
Gibbons T. and V., ‘The Medieval Findings At Minnis Bay, Birchington, Site of The Lost Settlement of Gore End, Limb of The Cinque Port of Dover’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 265-289.
Grainge, C., ‘The Identity of The Designer of The Bayeux Tapestry’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 253-264.
Luxford, J., ‘The Marginal Drawings In The Fourteenth-Century Cranston MS 1117, Almost Certainly Canterbury-Provenanced’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 152-186.
Metcalfe, G. M., ‘The Eighteenth-Century Scriptural Text Boards of Romney Marsh Churches’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 1-22.
Neal, S. and W. Rodwell, Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel: the archaeology of the mosaic pavement and setting of the shrine of St Thomas Becket (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022).
Perkins, W., ‘A Consensus of Symbols: medieval & historic graffiti in the medieval buildings of Kent’, KAS Newsletter, 120, 24-27.
EARLY MODERN KENT
Brackmann, R., ‘Monuments And Memory: William Somner’s ‘Antiquities of Canterbury’ & Poems on the Regicide’, in Old English Scholarship In The Seventeenth Century: medievalism and national crisis (Woodbridge: Boydell) 102-126.
Briggs, C. and B. Jervis, ‘Living Standards Of The Small Trader Class In Fifteenth-Century Canterbury: evidence of escheators’ records’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 58-72.
Doe, R. A. (ed.), Dr Thomas Plume, 1630-1704: his life and legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge (Hatfield: Essex Publications, 2022).
Kent, A. J., A. Leach, S. Pratt, and C. Williams, ‘Celebrating Canterbury’s Cartographic Heritage: a short introduction to the City’s maps and mapmakers, c.1550-1750’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 216-242.
Morgan, W., Strongholds of Satan: a survey of the bygone racecourses of Britain Vol. I: The South- East (Lockerbie: Mainholm Press, 2022).
Reid, T. (ed.), The Restoration of The Church of England: Canterbury Diocese & The Archbishop’s Peculiars Church of England Record Society, 27 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022).
Roberts, S. K. (ed.), The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1640-1660, 9 vols (Woodbridge: Boydell) [includes biographies of Kent MP’s].
Robinson, K., ‘Sydracke Hilcus, Designers Of The King’s Duck Decoy In St. James’ Park: sub- sequently builder of the Grovehurst decoy at Milton-next-Sittingbourne’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 328-334.
Tittler, R., ‘The Possibilities Of Painting In Kent c1540-1640’, The Local Historian, 53, 2, 2-23.
MODERN KENT – POST 1700
Allen, T., The Art of House-Building: architectural drawings of Chislehurst and Bickley (Chislehurst: Chislehurst Society).
Andrews, M., ‘An Eighteenth-Century Gold Coin Hoard From Chatham’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 334-338.
Ballard, M., ‘The Austens’ Residences In Sevenoaks Part I: a forgotten Austen property - The Old House, 18 High Street’, The Jane Austen Society Report for 2022,104-112.
Beamish, D., Anthony Roper Primary School: a history (Canterbury: Canterley Publishing in association with Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society).
Beresford, F., ‘The Illustrations of Benjamin Harrison’, KAS Newsletter, 120, 12-22.[pg360]
Bridgeman, J., The Hales of Quebec and Tunbridge Wells (Tunbridge Wells: Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery, 2017).
Burkett, E. and K. Baker, Material Evidence: a Chislehurst patchwork (Chislehurst: Old Chapel Books).
De Winton, S., “Faithful Servant” Rev. John Hallett Hotham, Vicar of Sutton-at-Hone, 1836-1881 (Place of publication unknown: Stephen de Winton).
Frost, J., Animal Guising & The Kentish Hooden Horse: an exhibition at Maidstone Museum 8th Feb & 17th June 2023 (Birchington: Ozaru Books).
Davies, T., Keston Village School 1855-1874 (Bromley: Bromley Borough Local History Soc.).
Drogovich, J., Hawkhurst: murder, corruption and Britain’s most notorious smuggling gang (Cheltenham: History Press).
Eeles, D., ‘Sandwich Haven Part 1: when sail was king’ Topsail, 54, 11-38.
George, D., ‘The Curel Barges’, Topsail, 56, 36-60 [barge building dynasty of John Curel at Frindsbury].
Goodshop, H., ‘The Venal Family, Watch and Clockmakers in Rye, Smarden and Deal’, Kent Family History Society Journal, Pt 1:17, 4, 231-238 & Pt 2: 17, 5, 330-337.
Guy, J., Castles of Kent Through Time (Amberley Publishing, 2023).
Harrington, D., ‘The Traction Engine Explosion By All Saints, Maidstone: devastation of monumental inscriptions in churchyard’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 338-343.
Heritage, C., Cemeteries and Graveyards. A Guide for Family and Local Historians in England and Wales (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2022).
Hirst, D., ‘How “Kent’s Dramatisable Coastline” Plays a Significant Role In The Novels of Elizabeth Bowen’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 290-301.
Holman, J., The Lower Lines Brompton, Kent: archaeological investigations 2007-2009 (Canterbury: CAT).
Holman, N., ‘It’s a Brilliant Theory Mr Harrison But….’, Bygone Kent, 44, 1, 32-39 [authenticity of
Benjamin Harrison’s archaeological finds].
Martin, A., Nine lives: The story of Biggin Hill (London: Unicorn Publishing).
Mills, M., ‘A Trip Down Angerstein Line’, Bygone Kent, 43, 2, 24-28 [development of wharf and railway at Blackheath & Greenwich].
Moses, C., ‘Intertidal Cohesive Foreshores: erosion rates and processes illustrated by a shore platform at Warden Point, Kent’, Marine Geology, 442 December, 2021.
Petrie, A., Not Just Milk Stout: the Mackeson family and their Hythe brewery (Cheltenham: History Press).
Pittman, S., John Wood & Family Farmers of The Mount, Crockenhill, Kent (Dartford: Print & Design, 2020).
Roberts P., The Adventures Of A Black Edwardian Intellectual: the story of James Arthur Harley (Oxford: Signal Books, 2022) [chapters 12-18 on Harley’s years as a curate in Chislet and Deal].
Smith, B., Charles John Jodrell Mansford: Headmaster of Dartford Grammar School & Author (Dartford: Barnaby Smith, 2022).
Smith, V.T.C., ‘Northfleet’s Forgotten Tunnels: Henley’s second world war industrial air-raid shelters’, Subterranea Britannica, 60 (August 2022).
Tritton, P., ‘Discovering Kent’s Wartime Airfields That Never Was’, KAS Newsletter, 117, 16-20.
Vanns, J., Training Ship Brilliant, Tunbridge Wells Unit Of The Sea Cadets Corps 1935-2022: a history of the unit and its ship’s companies (Tunbridge Wells: Sea Cadet Corps, 2022).
Walsh, R., ‘Insanitary Barges ‘A Sarcasm Upon Civilisation’’, Topsail, 56, 24-35 [report of Port of London medical officer of health 1902].
Wheeler, P., ‘A Gaze At The Galleries: spectators at championship golf events in Kent 1892-1938’, Sport In History, 43, 4, 410-441.
Woodhams, M., Kent’s Literary Heritage (Amberley Publishing, 2023).
[pg361]
RECENTLY CATALOGUED ARCHIVES
The following is a selection of material in Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Kent History & Library Centre which was catalogued in 2023.
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL ARCHIVES
Canterbury Cathedral
Sermons and addresses of Ian White-Thomson, Dean of Canterbury (U596).
Canterbury City and District
Canterbury City Police Special Constabulary Record Books, 1939-1941 (CC/U/4). Deeds relating to property in St Dunstan’s, Canterbury, 1687-1797 (CC/W).
Goad Insurance Plans for Canterbury, 1912-1943 (Map/229).
Map by Francis Hill of part of Beverley Farm, Canterbury, 1706 (CC/W) (CC/W). King’s Charity account book, 1785-1935 (CC/S/27/1).
Scrapbook maintained by Dora White, nee Hilton (1849-1931) of Street End House, near Canterbury (CC/W).
Returns for Imperial War Museum Survey of War Memorials, 1944 (CC/W).
Bundle of papers relating to Canterbury Barracks and to nearby properties, 1832-1843 (CC). Map by James Busey of a wood in Westbere parish, 1692 (CC/W).
Parishes
Hernhill, St Michael Church: registers and other records, 1876-2021 (U3/235 addl.). Littlebourne, St Vincent: overseers rate book, 1835-1837 (U3/73 addl.).
Lyminge, SS Mary & Ethelburga: 1897-1921 (U3/121 addl.).
Stalisfield, St Mary Church: baptism registers, 1894-2002 (U3/264 addl.).
Unofficial
Harbledown, St Nicholas Hospital: register of burials, 1793-1973 (U13 addl.).
Letters and papers relating to Thomas Willement, heraldic artist and stained glass artist (1786-1871), and Rev Thomas Streatfeild of Westerham, Kent (1777-1848) (U598).
KENT HISTORY AND LIBRARY CENTRE
Borough Records
Annual reports of The Medical Officer of Health (Maidstone), 1958, 1960-1972 (Md/HM/AR3/2).
Estimate for the General Rate of Maidstone Borough Council, 1949-1969 (Md/FRg3/1). Maidstone Borough: annual accounts, 1967-1973 (Md/FTb1/67-72).
Charities and Societies
Church Education Corporation: minutes and Bedgebury rental, 1684-1962 (Ch163). Gravesend Glenwood Lawn Tennis Club: minutes 1930-1975 (Ch193).
Maidstone Historical Society: records relating to closure, 2007-2022 (Ch73 addl.). Maidstone Operatic Society, c1860-2012 (Ch180).
Margate and Dr Peete’s Charity, 1903-2012 (Ch196).[pg362]
Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate, 1792-2011 (Ch192). Sevenoaks and District Christian Education Council, 1946-1991 (Ch198).
Kent County Council
County Council: finance summaries, 1952-1956 (C/F/3/15).
County Laboratory: records, 1913-1979 (C/N).
Sundridge Institution, Sundridge Hospital: registers (C/PA/To/5).
Local Government
Maidstone Rural District Council: minute books, 1949-1974 (RD/MD/AM1).
Official
Lower Medway Internal Drainage Board: minutes and committee minutes, 1934-1981 (S/CML addl.).
Parish
Ashford, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1992-2004; burials, 1999-2004 (P10). South Ashford, Christ Church: registers of marriages, 2000-2017 (P10B).
South Ashford, St Francis: register of marriages, 2004-2019 (P10C).
Dunton Green, St John: registers of baptisms, 1952-1985; banns, 1971-1985; marriages, 1970-1982; burials, 1893-1951 (P279B).
Egerton and Charing parish records: registers of services, 1934-1943; churchwardens and PCC records (P78, P78B).
Great Chart, St Mary: registers of marriages, 2017-2020; banns, 1990-2010 (P81).
Kennington, St Mary: registers of baptisms 1961-1968, 1987-2016; marriages, 1982-2019; banns 1985-2003 (P207).
Kingsnorth, St Michael & All Angels: registers of baptisms 1927-2016; marriages, 1980-2014; banns, 1979-2016 (P212).
Kippington, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1945-2008; banns, 1990-2017; marriages, 1990-2020 (P330D).
Larkfield, Holy Trinity: registers of baptisms, 1923-2000; banns, 1982-2014; marriages, 1923-2019;
services, 1933-2017 (P242B). Little Chart, Parish Records (P82).
Riverhead, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1963-1997; banns, 1970-1994; marriages, 1981-2020;
confirmations, 1953-2018 (P330C).
Sevington, St Mary: register of marriages, 1967-2017 (P331).
Shadoxhurst, SS Peter & Paul: registers of banns, 1964-2012; confirmations, 1955-1987 (P332).
Tenterden, St Mildred: plan of churchyard, 1876 (P364 addl.).
Altered Tithe Apportionments: West Wickham and Great Chart, 1968-1981 (P81 and DCb). Willesborough, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1975-2011; marriages, 1990-2020; banns, 1990-2012; confirmations, 1962-1989 (P396).
Parish Council
Seal Parish Council: minutes, 1894-1994; accounts, 1941-1954 (PC298).
Temple Ewell with River Parish Council: minute books, 1950-1992, etc (PC112 addl. & PC323). Warehorne Parish Council: account books, 1895-1984 (PC324).
Wateringbury and Nettlestead Parish Council: records (PC301 addl, PC318 addl.). Westwell Parish Council: account books, 1900-2004 (PC302 addl.).[pg363]
Schools
Scrapbooks from the Downs School, Dartford, 1973-1990 (C/E/S/110/19).
Gordon School, Gravesend: admission registers, summary registers, log books, class books, 1930- 1988 (C/E/S/159/9).
Sevenoaks County Secondary School for Boys, later Wildernesse School: admission registers, logbooks, photographs etc., 1950-c2000 (C/ES330).
St Peter’s School, Thanet: log books, managers’ minutes, headteacher’s reports, school rebuilding project, inspection reports, pupil records and ephemera, 1919 (C/ES).
Unofficial
Andrus family papers, 1564-1948 (U2799).
Family history notes of the Pettman family and photograph of William Henry Pettman (b.1796), 19th century (U2176/F3).
Manuscript autobiography of the Reverend Mark Noble of Barming, and his ‘History of Barming’, 1802-1812 (U1823/101).
Sir George Francis Hampson’s estate in Bearsted, Detling and Thurnham: estate accounts, 1876-1894 (U4250).
Oath Book of land tax and assessed tax commissioners, Blackheath division of Kent, 1861-1869 (U4286).
Feoffment of land in Borden, 1512 (U4261).
St Augustine’s Staff Certificates issued to Sidney Walter Lockwood, 1928, 1967 (U4292). Counterpart Lease for marshlands in Cliffe, 1859 (U3097).
Moxham and Carless families of Cudham: papers, 1791-1869 (U4185).
Frederick Alexander Preston Pigou and the Bignores Estate, Dartford: deeds and papers, 1870-1910 (U4098/3).
Title deeds for 52 Castle Street, Dover, 1692-1949 (U4325).
List of election expenses paid for John Bindley, returned as MP for Dover in the parliamentary election, 1766-1767 (U4266).
Illuminated custumal of feudal obligations to Dover Castle, 1391, with an armorial of the constables of Dover Castle added by Sir Edward Dering, 1630 (U269/O342).
Title deeds for land near Winterbourne in Dunkirk, 1773-1950 (U4274).
Conveyance of a piece of land on the east side of St John’s Road, Faversham (U2256/T1). Gaol Calendar for West Kent midsummer Quarter Sessions, 1819 (U3740/O1).
Gravesend and Northfleet Labour Party records, 1939-1957 (U2796 Addl.). Vernon Turner collection (St Clere Gardens, Kemsing), 1908-1961 (U4222). Leeds Castle Estate: deeds 1546-1939 (U3734).
Caring Farm, Leeds and Otham: title deeds, 1877-1963 (U4301). Schedule of state of repair of Hayle Place, Maidstone, 1919 (U3014). Title deed for land on west side of Week Street, Maidstone, 1829 (U4253). Title deeds for 30, Tovil Road, Maidstone, 1907-1975 (U4271).
Title deeds relating to plot of land on the south side of Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, 1895-1959 (U4279).
Maidstone Borough ARP: correspondence and training information, 1939 (U4299).
Records relating to the temporary hospitals established in Maidstone during the Typhoid Epidemic, 1897-1899 (U4269).
Album of photographs by Freda Barton of Malling (U4265).
Records created by Frank Byron Caws Barton relating to the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate, 1922-1923 (U4323).
Records relating to the Bensted Family and their farms in Milton-next-Sittingboune, 1869-1952 (U4290).
Title deeds for ‘Mountjoy’, Wards Hill Road, Minster, Sheppey, 1905-1975 (U4302). Correspondence of the Harcup family from the Isle of Sheppey, 1874-1907 (U4174).
Executorship accounts for Francis Bradley Dyne of Gore Court, Sittingboune, 1880-1883 (U2151). Title deeds for properties at Modest Corner, Southborough, 1877-1988 (U3849).[pg364]
Deeds relating to Southfleet, 1675-1736 (U4280).
Deed for property and land in Stansted, 1810 (U4117).
Swanley school staff recollections and pupil/staff timetables (U4005 addl.).
Title deeds for property in Honey Lane / 5 Bell’s Lane, Tenterden, 1776-1954 (U4262). Title deeds for land and property in Tudeley and Hadlow, 1761-1889 (U4098/4).
Memorandum of Consequence of the Belcher family of Ulcombe Manor, 1796-1874 (U4293). Title deeds and Estate Maps: Kent, 1739-1840 (U4296).
Miscellaneous financial documents, 1810-1880 (U4105).
Order of Service, thanksgiving after the declaration of peace following the Napoleonic campaign, 1816 (U4334).
Two Poems by William Henry Davis, 1911-1914 (U4270).
Books formerly owned by Horatia Nelson Thompson and Lady Hamilton (U4254).
New Testament, printed 1632, with embroidered cover dating from 17th century (U2412). Miscellaneous documents acquired at auction, 1907-1910 (U4289).
Notebook of Revd. Lambert Larking entitled, ‘Collections from Church Registers &c. &c. in Kent, 1830’ (U4328).
Records relating to the Royal Military Canal, 1832-1936 (U4273). Kent Cyclist Battalion scrapbook, 1908-1994 (U4257).
Compilers: Deborah Saunders and Prof. D. Killingray.
A bibliography of books, articles, reports, pamphlets published in the calendar year 2023, unless otherwise stated.
general and multi-period
Gabor, T., ‘In The Shadow Of Saints: the long duree of Lyminge, Kent, as a sacred Christian landscape’, Archaeologia, 112 (London: Society of Antiquaries).
Harris, O. D., ‘Grey Dolphin’ and the Horse Church, Minster in Sheppey: the construction of a legend’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 97-123.
Rabin, A., ‘Bede, Æthelberht, and the Examples of The Romans in Early Medieval England’, Early Medieval Europe, 31, 4, 563-584.
Weekes, J. et al., Farming, Everyday Life and Ritual: 6,000 years of archaeology of Thanet Earth (Canterbury: Canterbury Archaeology Trust).
Wilson, J., ‘Bronze Age Enclosures & Medieval Saxon-Norman Bakehouses: excavations at Coldharbour Road, Gravesend’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 23-57.
Willett, C. et al., Kent: Building Stones of England. 2nd edition (Swindon: Historic England).
Prehistoric Kent
Hayden, C., D. Score, and T. Haines, ‘Late Bronze Age Funerary Practices And Subsequent Activity At Pinden Quarry, Southfleet’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 124-151.
Hoskins, R., ‘A Neolithic Flint Axe From East Wear Bay, Folkestone’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 327-328.
Ingrey, L. et al., ‘On The Discovery of A Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe From The Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent’, Internet Archeology, 61. https://doi.org/1.11141/ia.61.6.
Knowles, P., ‘A New Palaeolithic Handaxe Discovery From The Fordwich Plateau’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 323-326.
Wilson, T., ‘A Prehistoric Monumental Landscape At The Meads, Sittingbourne’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 73-96.
roman kent
Durham, A., ‘The Roman Name of Canterbury and Later Misunderstandings’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 302-321.
Holman, J. and C. Russell, ‘Richborough Connection Project: some evidence of early Bronze Age spelt wheat and late Iron Age/Roman field systems at Hoath’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 243-252.
anglo-saxon kent
Insley, C., ‘Naval Warfare, The State And The Archbishops of Canterbury In The Tenth And Eleventh Centuries’, The Haskins Society Journal, 33, 1-12 (2021).
Lloyd, J., ‘Eadgifu, Governor of Kent, in a Lost Charter of Edgar’, Anglo-Saxon England. Published online by Cambridge University Press 2023: 1-17. https://doi.10.1017/S026367512200014X.
Tickle, J., ‘Changing Queenships In Tenth-Century England: rhetoric and (self-) representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent’ Early Medieval Europe, 31, 4, 598-628.
Medieval Kent
Allen, T., ‘Poor People In Hovels: a review of life at the bottom of medieval Kentish society following excavation of a low-status settlement at Monkton, Thanet’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 187-215.
Gibbons T. and V., ‘The Medieval Findings At Minnis Bay, Birchington, Site of The Lost Settlement of Gore End, Limb of The Cinque Port of Dover’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 265-289.
Grainge, C., ‘The Identity of The Designer of The Bayeux Tapestry’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 253-264.
Luxford, J., ‘The Marginal Drawings In The Fourteenth-Century Cranston MS 1117, Almost Certainly Canterbury-Provenanced’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 152-186.
Metcalfe, G. M., ‘The Eighteenth-Century Scriptural Text Boards of Romney Marsh Churches’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 1-22.
Neal, S. and W. Rodwell, Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel: the archaeology of the mosaic pavement and setting of the shrine of St Thomas Becket (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022).
Perkins, W., ‘A Consensus of Symbols: medieval & historic graffiti in the medieval buildings of Kent’, KAS Newsletter, 120, 24-27.
Early Modern Kent
Brackmann, R., ‘Monuments And Memory: William Somner’s ‘Antiquities of Canterbury’ & Poems on the Regicide’, in Old English Scholarship In The Seventeenth Century: medievalism and national crisis (Woodbridge: Boydell) 102-126.
Briggs, C. and B. Jervis, ‘Living Standards Of The Small Trader Class In Fifteenth-Century Canterbury: evidence of escheators’ records’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 58-72.
Doe, R. A. (ed.), Dr Thomas Plume, 1630-1704: his life and legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge (Hatfield: Essex Publications, 2022).
Kent, A. J., A. Leach, S. Pratt, and C. Williams, ‘Celebrating Canterbury’s Cartographic Heritage: a short introduction to the City’s maps and mapmakers, c.1550-1750’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 216-242.
Morgan, W., Strongholds of Satan: a survey of the bygone racecourses of Britain Vol. I: The South-East (Lockerbie: Mainholm Press, 2022).
Reid, T. (ed.), The Restoration of The Church of England: Canterbury Diocese & The Archbishop’s Peculiars Church of England Record Society, 27 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022).
Roberts, S. K. (ed.), The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1640-1660, 9 vols (Woodbridge: Boydell) [includes biographies of Kent MP’s].
Robinson, K., ‘Sydracke Hilcus, Designers Of The King’s Duck Decoy In St. James’ Park: sub-sequently builder of the Grovehurst decoy at Milton-next-Sittingbourne’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 328-334.
Tittler, R., ‘The Possibilities Of Painting In Kent c1540-1640’, The Local Historian, 53, 2, 2-23.
Modern Kent – Post 1700
Allen, T., The Art of House-Building: architectural drawings of Chislehurst and Bickley (Chislehurst: Chislehurst Society).
Andrews, M., ‘An Eighteenth-Century Gold Coin Hoard From Chatham’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 334-338.
Ballard, M., ‘The Austens’ Residences In Sevenoaks Part I: a forgotten Austen property - The Old House, 18 High Street’, The Jane Austen Society Report for 2022,104-112.
Beamish, D., Anthony Roper Primary School: a history (Canterbury: Canterley Publishing in association with Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society).
Beresford, F., ‘The Illustrations of Benjamin Harrison’, KAS Newsletter, 120, 12-22.
Bridgeman, J., The Hales of Quebec and Tunbridge Wells (Tunbridge Wells: Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery, 2017).
Burkett, E. and K. Baker, Material Evidence: a Chislehurst patchwork (Chislehurst: Old Chapel Books).
De Winton, S., “Faithful Servant” Rev. John Hallett Hotham, Vicar of Sutton-at-Hone, 1836-1881 (Place of publication unknown: Stephen de Winton).
Frost, J., Animal Guising & The Kentish Hooden Horse: an exhibition at Maidstone Museum 8th Feb & 17th June 2023 (Birchington: Ozaru Books).
Davies, T., Keston Village School 1855-1874 (Bromley: Bromley Borough Local History Soc.).
Drogovich, J., Hawkhurst: murder, corruption and Britain’s most notorious smuggling gang (Cheltenham: History Press).
Eeles, D., ‘Sandwich Haven Part 1: when sail was king’ Topsail, 54, 11-38.
George, D., ‘The Curel Barges’, Topsail, 56, 36-60 [barge building dynasty of John Curel at Frindsbury].
Goodshop, H., ‘The Venal Family, Watch and Clockmakers in Rye, Smarden and Deal’, Kent Family History Society Journal, Pt 1:17, 4, 231-238 & Pt 2: 17, 5, 330-337.
Guy, J., Castles of Kent Through Time (Amberley Publishing, 2023).
Harrington, D., ‘The Traction Engine Explosion By All Saints, Maidstone: devastation of monumental inscriptions in churchyard’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 338-343.
Heritage, C., Cemeteries and Graveyards. A Guide for Family and Local Historians in England and Wales (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2022).
Hirst, D., ‘How “Kent’s Dramatisable Coastline” Plays a Significant Role In The Novels of Elizabeth Bowen’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxliii, 290-301.
Holman, J., The Lower Lines Brompton, Kent: archaeological investigations 2007-2009 (Canterbury: CAT).
Holman, N., ‘It’s a Brilliant Theory Mr Harrison But….’, Bygone Kent, 44, 1, 32-39 [authenticity of Benjamin Harrison’s archaeological finds].
Martin, A., Nine lives: The story of Biggin Hill (London: Unicorn Publishing).
Mills, M., ‘A Trip Down Angerstein Line’, Bygone Kent, 43, 2, 24-28 [development of wharf and railway at Blackheath & Greenwich].
Moses, C., ‘Intertidal Cohesive Foreshores: erosion rates and processes illustrated by a shore platform at Warden Point, Kent’, Marine Geology, 442 December, 2021.
Petrie, A., Not Just Milk Stout: the Mackeson family and their Hythe brewery (Cheltenham: History Press).
Pittman, S., John Wood & Family Farmers of The Mount, Crockenhill, Kent (Dartford: Print & Design, 2020).
Roberts P., The Adventures Of A Black Edwardian Intellectual: the story of James Arthur Harley (Oxford: Signal Books, 2022) [chapters 12-18 on Harley’s years as a curate in Chislet and Deal].
Smith, B., Charles John Jodrell Mansford: Headmaster of Dartford Grammar School & Author (Dartford: Barnaby Smith, 2022).
Smith, V.T.C., ‘Northfleet’s Forgotten Tunnels: Henley’s second world war industrial air-raid shelters’, Subterranea Britannica, 60 (August 2022).
Tritton, P., ‘Discovering Kent’s Wartime Airfields That Never Was’, KAS Newsletter, 117, 16-20.
Vanns, J., Training Ship Brilliant, Tunbridge Wells Unit Of The Sea Cadets Corps 1935-2022: a history of the unit and its ship’s companies (Tunbridge Wells: Sea Cadet Corps, 2022).
Walsh, R., ‘Insanitary Barges ‘A Sarcasm Upon Civilisation’’, Topsail, 56, 24-35 [report of Port of London medical officer of health 1902].
Wheeler, P., ‘A Gaze At The Galleries: spectators at championship golf events in Kent 1892-1938’, Sport In History, 43, 4, 410-441.
Woodhams, M., Kent’s Literary Heritage (Amberley Publishing, 2023).
Recently Catalogued Archives
The following is a selection of material in Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Kent History & Library Centre which was catalogued in 2023.
canterbury cathedral archives
Canterbury Cathedral
Sermons and addresses of Ian White-Thomson, Dean of Canterbury (U596).
Canterbury City and District
Canterbury City Police Special Constabulary Record Books, 1939-1941 (CC/U/4).
Deeds relating to property in St Dunstan’s, Canterbury, 1687-1797 (CC/W).
Goad Insurance Plans for Canterbury, 1912-1943 (Map/229).
Map by Francis Hill of part of Beverley Farm, Canterbury, 1706 (CC/W) (CC/W).
King’s Charity account book, 1785-1935 (CC/S/27/1).
Scrapbook maintained by Dora White, nee Hilton (1849-1931) of Street End House, near Canterbury (CC/W).
Returns for Imperial War Museum Survey of War Memorials, 1944 (CC/W).
Bundle of papers relating to Canterbury Barracks and to nearby properties, 1832-1843 (CC).
Map by James Busey of a wood in Westbere parish, 1692 (CC/W).
Parishes
Hernhill, St Michael Church: registers and other records, 1876-2021 (U3/235 addl.).
Littlebourne, St Vincent: overseers rate book, 1835-1837 (U3/73 addl.).
Lyminge, SS Mary & Ethelburga: 1897-1921 (U3/121 addl.).
Stalisfield, St Mary Church: baptism registers, 1894-2002 (U3/264 addl.).
Unofficial
Harbledown, St Nicholas Hospital: register of burials, 1793-1973 (U13 addl.).
Letters and papers relating to Thomas Willement, heraldic artist and stained glass artist (1786-1871), and Rev Thomas Streatfeild of Westerham, Kent (1777-1848) (U598).
KENT HISTORY AND LIBRARY CENTRE
Borough Records
Annual reports of The Medical Officer of Health (Maidstone), 1958, 1960-1972 (Md/HM/AR3/2).
Estimate for the General Rate of Maidstone Borough Council, 1949-1969 (Md/FRg3/1).
Maidstone Borough: annual accounts, 1967-1973 (Md/FTb1/67-72).
Charities and Societies
Church Education Corporation: minutes and Bedgebury rental, 1684-1962 (Ch163).
Gravesend Glenwood Lawn Tennis Club: minutes 1930-1975 (Ch193).
Maidstone Historical Society: records relating to closure, 2007-2022 (Ch73 addl.).
Maidstone Operatic Society, c1860-2012 (Ch180).
Margate and Dr Peete’s Charity, 1903-2012 (Ch196).
Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate, 1792-2011 (Ch192).
Sevenoaks and District Christian Education Council, 1946-1991 (Ch198).
Kent County Council
County Council: finance summaries, 1952-1956 (C/F/3/15).
County Laboratory: records, 1913-1979 (C/N).
Sundridge Institution, Sundridge Hospital: registers (C/PA/To/5).
Local Government
Maidstone Rural District Council: minute books, 1949-1974 (RD/MD/AM1).
Official
Lower Medway Internal Drainage Board: minutes and committee minutes, 1934-1981 (S/CML addl.).
Parish
Ashford, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1992-2004; burials, 1999-2004 (P10).
South Ashford, Christ Church: registers of marriages, 2000-2017 (P10B).
South Ashford, St Francis: register of marriages, 2004-2019 (P10C).
Dunton Green, St John: registers of baptisms, 1952-1985; banns, 1971-1985; marriages, 1970-1982; burials, 1893-1951 (P279B).
Egerton and Charing parish records: registers of services, 1934-1943; churchwardens and PCC records (P78, P78B).
Great Chart, St Mary: registers of marriages, 2017-2020; banns, 1990-2010 (P81).
Kennington, St Mary: registers of baptisms 1961-1968, 1987-2016; marriages, 1982-2019; banns 1985-2003 (P207).
Kingsnorth, St Michael & All Angels: registers of baptisms 1927-2016; marriages, 1980-2014; banns, 1979-2016 (P212).
Kippington, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1945-2008; banns, 1990-2017; marriages, 1990-2020 (P330D).
Larkfield, Holy Trinity: registers of baptisms, 1923-2000; banns, 1982-2014; marriages, 1923-2019; services, 1933-2017 (P242B).
Little Chart, Parish Records (P82).
Riverhead, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1963-1997; banns, 1970-1994; marriages, 1981-2020; confirmations, 1953-2018 (P330C).
Sevington, St Mary: register of marriages, 1967-2017 (P331).
Shadoxhurst, SS Peter & Paul: registers of banns, 1964-2012; confirmations, 1955-1987 (P332).
Tenterden, St Mildred: plan of churchyard, 1876 (P364 addl.).
Altered Tithe Apportionments: West Wickham and Great Chart, 1968-1981 (P81 and DCb).
Willesborough, St Mary: registers of baptisms, 1975-2011; marriages, 1990-2020; banns, 1990-2012; confirmations, 1962-1989 (P396).
Parish Council
Seal Parish Council: minutes, 1894-1994; accounts, 1941-1954 (PC298).
Temple Ewell with River Parish Council: minute books, 1950-1992, etc (PC112 addl. & PC323).
Warehorne Parish Council: account books, 1895-1984 (PC324).
Wateringbury and Nettlestead Parish Council: records (PC301 addl, PC318 addl.).
Westwell Parish Council: account books, 1900-2004 (PC302 addl.).
Schools
Scrapbooks from the Downs School, Dartford, 1973-1990 (C/E/S/110/19).
Gordon School, Gravesend: admission registers, summary registers, log books, class books, 1930-1988 (C/E/S/159/9).
Sevenoaks County Secondary School for Boys, later Wildernesse School: admission registers, logbooks, photographs etc., 1950-c2000 (C/ES330).
St Peter’s School, Thanet: log books, managers’ minutes, headteacher’s reports, school rebuilding project, inspection reports, pupil records and ephemera, 1919 (C/ES).
Unofficial
Andrus family papers, 1564-1948 (U2799).
Family history notes of the Pettman family and photograph of William Henry Pettman (b.1796), 19th century (U2176/F3).
Manuscript autobiography of the Reverend Mark Noble of Barming, and his ‘History of Barming’, 1802-1812 (U1823/101).
Sir George Francis Hampson’s estate in Bearsted, Detling and Thurnham: estate accounts, 1876-1894 (U4250).
Oath Book of land tax and assessed tax commissioners, Blackheath division of Kent, 1861-1869 (U4286).
Feoffment of land in Borden, 1512 (U4261).
St Augustine’s Staff Certificates issued to Sidney Walter Lockwood, 1928, 1967 (U4292).
Counterpart Lease for marshlands in Cliffe, 1859 (U3097).
Moxham and Carless families of Cudham: papers, 1791-1869 (U4185).
Frederick Alexander Preston Pigou and the Bignores Estate, Dartford: deeds and papers, 1870-1910 (U4098/3).
Title deeds for 52 Castle Street, Dover, 1692-1949 (U4325).
List of election expenses paid for John Bindley, returned as MP for Dover in the parliamentary election, 1766-1767 (U4266).
Illuminated custumal of feudal obligations to Dover Castle, 1391, with an armorial of the constables of Dover Castle added by Sir Edward Dering, 1630 (U269/O342).
Title deeds for land near Winterbourne in Dunkirk, 1773-1950 (U4274).
Conveyance of a piece of land on the east side of St John’s Road, Faversham (U2256/T1).
Gaol Calendar for West Kent midsummer Quarter Sessions, 1819 (U3740/O1).
Gravesend and Northfleet Labour Party records, 1939-1957 (U2796 Addl.).
Vernon Turner collection (St Clere Gardens, Kemsing), 1908-1961 (U4222).
Leeds Castle Estate: deeds 1546-1939 (U3734).
Caring Farm, Leeds and Otham: title deeds, 1877-1963 (U4301).
Schedule of state of repair of Hayle Place, Maidstone, 1919 (U3014).
Title deed for land on west side of Week Street, Maidstone, 1829 (U4253).
Title deeds for 30, Tovil Road, Maidstone, 1907-1975 (U4271).
Title deeds relating to plot of land on the south side of Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, 1895-1959 (U4279).
Maidstone Borough ARP: correspondence and training information, 1939 (U4299).
Records relating to the temporary hospitals established in Maidstone during the Typhoid Epidemic, 1897-1899 (U4269).
Album of photographs by Freda Barton of Malling (U4265).
Records created by Frank Byron Caws Barton relating to the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate, 1922-1923 (U4323).
Records relating to the Bensted Family and their farms in Milton-next-Sittingboune, 1869-1952 (U4290).
Title deeds for ‘Mountjoy’, Wards Hill Road, Minster, Sheppey, 1905-1975 (U4302).
Correspondence of the Harcup family from the Isle of Sheppey, 1874-1907 (U4174).
Executorship accounts for Francis Bradley Dyne of Gore Court, Sittingboune, 1880-1883 (U2151).
Title deeds for properties at Modest Corner, Southborough, 1877-1988 (U3849).
Deeds relating to Southfleet, 1675-1736 (U4280).
Deed for property and land in Stansted, 1810 (U4117).
Swanley school staff recollections and pupil/staff timetables (U4005 addl.).
Title deeds for property in Honey Lane / 5 Bell’s Lane, Tenterden, 1776-1954 (U4262).
Title deeds for land and property in Tudeley and Hadlow, 1761-1889 (U4098/4).
Memorandum of Consequence of the Belcher family of Ulcombe Manor, 1796-1874 (U4293).
Title deeds and Estate Maps: Kent, 1739-1840 (U4296).
Miscellaneous financial documents, 1810-1880 (U4105).
Order of Service, thanksgiving after the declaration of peace following the Napoleonic campaign, 1816 (U4334).
Two Poems by William Henry Davis, 1911-1914 (U4270).
Books formerly owned by Horatia Nelson Thompson and Lady Hamilton (U4254).
New Testament, printed 1632, with embroidered cover dating from 17th century (U2412).
Miscellaneous documents acquired at auction, 1907-1910 (U4289).
Notebook of Revd. Lambert Larking entitled, ‘Collections from Church Registers &c. &c. in Kent, 1830’ (U4328).
Records relating to the Royal Military Canal, 1832-1936 (U4273).
Kent Cyclist Battalion scrapbook, 1908-1994 (U4257).