An innovative new mapping platform launches today sharing experiences of climate change from some of Kent’s most vulnerable coastlines.

Including Easter trails, the launch of the Hop Exhibition, Birds of Prey Display, Medieval Fair, Rural Craft Workshop, and Harvest Festival. 2025 opening times: Saturdays & Sundays, between 2pm – 5pm from 24 May – 28 September.

The latest update by Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh featured on the Centre for Kent History blog at the Canterbury Christ Church University website.

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Gill Bromley is gathering reminiscences which will be passed to Smarden Local History Society for the archives.

A Kent Defence Research Group Project 2022-2024 undertaken by Jay Curtis, Keith Gulvin, Clive Holden, Andrew Kershaw and Martin Laws.

A suspected ‘witch bottle’ unearthed at a house in Cliftonville has now been scanned at Canterbury Christ Church University and found to contain objects including a collection of metal pins or staples and a cylindrical object which may be a piece of bone or wood.

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The latest update by Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh featured on the Centre for Kent History blog at the Canterbury Christ Church University website.

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The latest update by Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh featured on the Centre for Kent History blog at the Canterbury Christ Church University website.

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The only full-scale replica of the first ship to circumnavigate the world is visiting Kent.

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Tales of Forgotten Kent by Malcolm Horton, published by the History Press, is a collection of twenty two essays about the people and events that have largely been neglected by historians, but are part of Kent’s rich tapestry as the “Garden of England” and its location as the gateway to Europe and the New World.

Dr Philip MacDougall outlines his research into the influence and connections of Kent’s naval facilities with the Russian Navy through from Peter I's visit to Chatham in 1698 to the later use of Chatham by the Russian Navy during the French Wars of the eighteenth century.

A follow up from last week, Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh reports on Dr Janet Clayton’s presentation to the Kent History Postgraduates group as the last of these meeting for this academic year.

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Are you interested in carriages, transport or meeting new people? We need friendly, welcoming people to join the team at Maidstone Carriage Museum on Saturdays.