KAS 01/09/2022 KAS 01/09/2022

The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool

Gretzinge. J., et al. ‘The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool’, Nature, 21, September 2022.

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Jacob Scott 18/07/2022 Jacob Scott 18/07/2022

‘The Earliest English Church? A reconsideration of the chapel of St Pancras, in St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury

Dark, K., ‘The Earliest English Church? A reconsideration of the chapel of St Pancras, in St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury’, Journal of British Archaeological Association, online 18 July 2022.

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Jacob Scott 13/03/2022 Jacob Scott 13/03/2022

The Last Stand of Lieutenant Henn and his Sappers

The story behind the names of the ‘Native Sappers and Miners’ commemorated in the 1888 Royal Engineers memorial mosaic at the west end of the Nave of Rochester Cathedral.

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Jacob Scott 01/01/2022 Jacob Scott 01/01/2022

Fire! Accounts of Destruction and Survival at Canterbury & Bury St Edmunds in the Late Twelfth Century

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KAS 01/12/2021 KAS 01/12/2021

Intertidal Cohesive Foreshores: erosion rates and processes illustrated by a shore platform at Warden Point, Kent

Moses, C., ‘Intertidal Cohesive Foreshores: erosion rates and processes illustrated by a shore platform at Warden Point, Kent’, Marine Geology, 442 December, 2021.

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Dr Christopher Monk 04/11/2021 Dr Christopher Monk 04/11/2021

Slaves and the Unfree in the Laws of Æthelberht

The twelfth-century collection of laws preserved in Textus Roffensis, the ‘Rochester Book’, illuminates the position of those who were slaves during the Anglo-Saxon period.

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KAS 10/10/2021 KAS 10/10/2021

Isabella Gilmore and the deaconess movement

Bishop of Rochester’s Chaplain Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff discusses the life and work of Isabella Gilmore and the genesis of the Deaconess Movement in the early 19th century.

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Jacob Scott 08/10/2021 Jacob Scott 08/10/2021

Dean Reynolds Hole (1819-1904)

Dean of Rochester Philip Hesketh introduces the life and work of Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester 1887–1904, a celebrated gardener notable for his expertise with roses. First of a two-part series.

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Jacob Scott 07/10/2021 Jacob Scott 07/10/2021

Textus Roffensis origins

Dr Christopher Monk explores the origins of Ethelbert’s law-code, foundational document of the Early English Laws portion of the ‘Rochester Book’.

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KAS 28/07/2021 KAS 28/07/2021

The Papermakers of Snodland c.1740-1854

Dr Andrew Ashbee, 2021, Kent Archaeological Society Paper No. 3. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.

KAS 28/07/2021 KAS 28/07/2021

Cholera and typhoid fever in Kent

Christopher Collins, 2021, Kent Archaeological Society Paper No. 4. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.

KAS 25/07/2021 KAS 25/07/2021

William Pratt of Greenwich (1717–95): Ship’s carpenter and painter

Merwe van de, P., ‘William Pratt of Greenwich (1717-95): ship’s carpenter and painter’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 107, 3 (2021), 370-373.

Jacob Scott 09/06/2021 Jacob Scott 09/06/2021

Rochester Cathedral Lapidarium and Spolia

Jacob Harry Scott, B.A., ACIfA, 2021, Submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Archaeology & Heritage School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.

KAS 01/04/2021 KAS 01/04/2021

Margate Caves, Cliftonville

R. F. LeGear and C. M. Pearson, 2021, Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.

Jacob Scott 29/10/2020 Jacob Scott 29/10/2020

Black Boy Alley, Rochester: Origin and heritage

Jacob Scott investigates the origins of the name of an alley in Rochester.

KAS 07/08/2020 KAS 07/08/2020

The Deal Boatmen - Heroes or Villains?

Dr Jacqueline Bower, 2020, Kent Archaeological Society Paper No. 9. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.

KAS 04/08/2020 KAS 04/08/2020

Clandestine Marriage in the Diocese of Rochester during the Mid-fourteenth Century

Dr. Andrew J. Finch History B.A. (Hons); M.A. (Study of Contemporary Japan); D.Phil., 2020, Kent Archaeological Society Paper No. 22. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.