Annual Bibliography of Kentish Archaeology and History 2014

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KENTISH ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 2014

Compilers: Ms D. Saunders, Ms E. Finn, Kent History & Library Centre.

Contributors: Prehistoric – K. Parfitt; Roman – Dr J. Weekes;

Anglo-Saxon – Dr A. Richardson; Medieval – Dr C. Insley;

Modern – Prof. D. Killingray.

A bibliography of books, articles, reports and pamphlets

published in the calendar year 2014 (unless otherwise stated).

GENERAL AND MULTI-PERIOD

Barber, G., History of the Old House (Originally Marden’s Farm), in Hildenborough, Kent (Perth, Western Australia: G. Barber).

Bennett, P. et al., Prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon Discoveries on the East Kent Chalkland: Investigations along the Whitfield-Eastry by-pass 1991-1996 (Oxford: CAT).

CAT., Canterbury’s Archaeology 2012-2013 (Canterbury, CAT, 2013).

Clarke, P., ‘The History and Architectural Development of the Old Bishop’s Palace, Rochester’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 1-35.

Coates, R., ‘The place name Trottiscliffe’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 294-97.

Cockett, R., Mayfield, A. and Taylor, R., ‘Randall Manor: Community Archaeology Works!’, KAS Newsletter, 100, 14-19.

Croom, J.N., ‘Courts, Yards and Houses: enclosing, enhancing and servicing the medieval and early modern great house c.1050 – c.1750’, The Local Historian, 44, 2, 90-114 [references to Ightham Mote, Shurland Hall in Sheppey and Somerhill House in Tonbridge].

Doel, F. & G., The Hop Bin: an anthology of hop picking in Kent and East Sussex (Stroud: History Press).

Goulden, R.J., A biographical dictionary of those engaged in the book trade in Kent, 1750-1900, 2 vols (Croydon: R. J. Goulden).

Helm, R. and Weekes, J., ‘The Early Development of a Canterbury Suburb? Romano-British and Medieval Archaeology at Nos 19 and 45-7 Wincheap’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 235-50.

Hollingsworth, J.P., From huts to high rises. The history of housing in Kent (Catrine: Stenlake Publishing).

Howell, I., ‘Continuity and Change in the Late Iron Age/Roman transition within the environs of Quarry Wood Oppidum: excavations at Furfield Quarry, Boughton Monchel-sea’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 37-66.

Lake, J., Edwards B. and Bannister, N., ‘Farmsteads and Landscapes in Kent’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 105-39.

Mackinder, A. and Blackmore, B., Prehistoric to Medieval landscape and settlement at Kemsley, near Sittingbourne, Kent: Excavations 2003-5 (London: MoLA, 2013).

Merrill, Rev. J.N., Aylesford Pilgrimage Walk: 13 mile pilgrimage walk from Rochester Cathedral to the Friars Aylesford, Kent (Waltham: John Merrill Foundation).

Smith, J., The Parish of Allhallow Hoo Peninsula, Medway, Kent. Historic Area Assessment, Research Report Series No. 11 (Swindon: English Heritage).

Smith, J., The Parish of Stoke, Hoo Peninsula, Medway, Kent, ditto no. 12.

Smith, J. and Clarke, J., High Halstow, Hoo Peninsula, Medway, Kent, ditto no. 53.

Smith, J. and Clarke, J., Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, Hoo Peninsula, Medway, Kent, ditto no. 54.

Wilkinson, P. and Macpherson-Grant, N., ‘Investigations of an Hexagonal Feature at Star Hill, Bridge, 2003-2006: evidence of Iron Age and earlier occupation: Anglo-Saxon Burials’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 260-68.

PREHISTORIC

Bennett, P. et al., Prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon Discoveries on the East Kent Chalklands. Investigations along the Whitfield-Eastry by-pass 1991-1996, CAT Occas. Paper No. 9. (Canterbury: CAT).

Brandherm, D. and Moskal-del Hoyo, M., ‘“Both sides now”: the Carp’s-tongue complex revisited’, The Antiquaries Journal, 94, 1-47 [refers to a number of Kent finds].

Burrows, V., ‘A middle Bronze Age palstave axe from St Margaret’s-at-Cliffe’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 293-94.

Champion, T., ‘Food, Technology and Culture in the Late Bronze Age of Southern Britain: Perforated Clay Plates of the Lower Thames Valley’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 80, 279-398 [mentions a number of Kent sites].

Farley, J., Parfitt, K. and Richardson, A., ‘A Late Iron Age Helmet Burial from Bridge, near Canterbury, Kent’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 80, 379-388.

Jeffery, E. et al., ‘A Ring Ditch in Sittingbourne’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 268-80.

KARU., Discoveries and Excavations across Kent 1970- 2014, Kent Monograph Series Vol. XII (Dover: KARU) [includes sites ranging from Neolithic to Medieval].

Mackinder, A. and Blackmore, L., Prehistoric to Medieval landscape and settlement at Kemsley near Sittingbourne, Kent. Excavations 2003-5. MoLA Archaeological Studies Series No. 28.

Parfitt, K., ‘A land archaeologist goes to sea’, Current Archaeology, 287, 44-5 [account of initial sea trials of the Dover Bronze Age boat replica].

Parfitt, K. and Halliwell, G., ‘Exploiting the Wildwood: evidence from a Mesolithic activity site at Finglesham, near Deal’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 221-62.

Seager Thomas, M., ‘A Regionally Important Early Iron Age Pottery Group: the Manor Farm pub site, High Street, Rainham’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 47-73.

Wenban-Smith, F. (ed.), 2013, The Ebbsfleet Elephant: Excavations at Southfleet Road, Swanscombe in advance of High Speed 1, 2003-⁴ (Oxford Archaeology Monograph, Vol. 20).

ROMANO-BRITISH

Booth, P., ‘Kent’ in ‘Roman Britain in 2013’, Britannia, 45, 391-5.

CAT., ‘A Roman Balsamarium from Petham’, Canterbury’s Archaeology 2012-2013, 41 (Canterbury: CAT).

Elliot, S., ‘The Medway Formula – a search for evidence that the Roman authorities improved the river’s navigability to facilitate their extensive ragstone quarrying industry’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 251-60.

Helm, R., Outside the Town. Roman Industry, Burial and Religion at Augustan House, Rhoadaus Town, Canterbury, CAT Occas. Paper No. 10 (Canterbury).

Helm, R. and Weekes, J., ‘The early development of a Canterbury suburb? Romano-British and Medieval archaeology at Nos 19 and 45-47 Wincheap’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 235-50.

Jones, H.A., ‘The Roman villa at Minster-in-Thanet. Part 9: an architectural reconstruction’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 189-207.

O’Shea, L. and Weekes, J., ‘Evidence of a distinct focus of Romano-British settlement at Maidstone? Excavations at Church Street 2011-12’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 131-151.

Philp, B., Discoveries and Excavations across Kent, 1970-2014. Kent Monographs Series (Dover: KARU) [includes reports of Farnborough (1967; 1970); Keston (1972); Dover (1974; 1979; 1983; 1994); Harrietsham (1984-97; Rodmersham (1985); Rochester (1986); Shoreham (1986); Alkham (1989); and Bromley (1993)].

Philp, B., ‘An Iron Age and Roman site at Queen Elizabeth Square, Maidstone, Kent’, KAR, 191, 170-5.

Stevens, S., ‘Archaeological Investigations at Maidstone hospital, Hermitage Lane, Barming’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 141-51.

Tomlin, R.S.O., ‘Inscriptions’ in ‘Roman Britain in 2013’, Britannia, 45, 391-5, 442 [amphora graffito from Snodland].

Wallace, L., ‘ Archaeological Investigations of a Major Building, probably Roman, and related landscape features at Bourne Park, Bishopsbourne, 2011-12’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 187-203.

Weekes, J., ‘The development of Roman and Medieval Wincheap’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 246-9.

Worrell, S. and Pearce, J., ‘Finds reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme’, in ‘Roman Britain in 2013’, Britannia, 45, 397- 400 [overview includes Kent data]; 426-7 [plate brooch from Denton with Wootton].

ANGLO-SAXON

Chester-Kadwell, B., ‘A reappraisal of eleventh-century settlement in the eastern High Weald’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 105-130.

Clewley, G.B., ‘The Lenham Enigma: The Anglo-Saxon warriors triple grave’, KAR, 194, 136-139.

Harrington, S. and Welch, M., The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Southern Britain AD 450-650: Beneath the Tribal Hidage (Oxford: Oxbow Books).

Knox, A., ‘Excavating Anglo-Saxon Lyminge: The final season on Tayne Field’, KAS Newsletter, 100, 4-9.

Naismith, R., Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms, 757-865 (Cambridge: CUP).

Philp, B., ‘A major Anglo-Saxon site at Eynsford, Kent’, in Discoveries and Excavations across Kent, 1970-2014, Site 16, 118-136 (Dover: KARU).

Trust for Thanet Archaeology., ‘Lord of the Manor Ramsgate: Training excavation with University of Kent students’, KAS Newsletter, 99, 2-3.

MEDIEVAL

Ayton, A. and Lambert, C., ‘A Maritime Community in War and Peace: Kentish Ports, Ships and Mariners, 1320-1400’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 67-103.

Bovey, A., Medieval Art, Architecture & Archaeology at Canterbury (Leeds: Maney, 2013).

Cole, D., ‘How Mapping the Lowy of Tonbridge can further our understanding of its origin, nature and extent.’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 75-92.

Connor, M., ‘The Priory of Christ Church Canterbury and its connections with London in the late Middle Ages’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 33-46.

Davis, T., ‘Woodland workers in late Medieval Keston’, Bromleag, 2, 29, 24-29.

Mackintosh, R., Augustine of Canterbury: leadership, mission and legacy (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2013).

Meddens, F. and Draper, G., ‘‘Out on a Limb’: insights into Grange, a small member of the Cinque Ports Confederation’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 1-32.

Sweetinburgh, S.,‘‘To move the mind’: scenes from Christ’s life on Faversham’s painted pillar’, in S. Kelly and R. Perry (eds), ‘Diuerse Imaginaciouns of Cristes Life’: Devotional Culture in England and Beyond, 1300-1560 (Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols), 175-88.

Sweetinburgh, S., ‘Canterbury’s Martyred Archbishop: the ‘cult’ of Simon Sudbury and relations between city and cathedral’, in M. Penman (ed.), Monuments and Monumentality in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2013), 199-211.

Sweetinburgh, S., ‘Pilgrimage in ‘an Age of Plague’: seeking Canterbury’s ‘holy blisful martir’ in 1420 and 1470’, in L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (eds), The Fifteenth Century, XI: society in an age of plague (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013), 57-77.

Sweetinburgh, S., ‘Placing the hospital: the production of St Lawrence’s Hospital registers in fifteenth-century Canterbury’, in L. Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIII: Exploring the Evidence: Commemoration, Administration and the Economy (Woodbridge: Boydell), 1-20.

Thomas, G., ‘Life before the Minster: the social dynamics of monastic foundation at Anglo-Saxon Lyminge, Kent’, Antiquaries Journal, 93 (2013), 93-145.

EARLY MODERN

Bowen, W.R., Black, J.L. and Warkentin, G. (eds), The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

Cavill, P.R., ‘The Grebills of Tenterden, the Prior of Leeds and the Heresy Trial of 1511’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 283-92.

Craig-Mair, V. and Sweetinburgh, S., ‘What’s in a Name? Exploring the use of ‘Creature’ as a Christian Name in the Diocese of Canterbury in the early modern period’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 209-222.

Flynn, R., ‘The Morphett family’s experience of gavelkind in the eighteenth century’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 301-4.

Handley, S., ‘Sociable Sleeping in Early Modern England, 1660-1760’, History, 98, 79-104 [Evidence mostly from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury].

Harrington, D. and Hyde, P., ‘Faversham Mayors and their right to the Court Hall. A little mystery solved’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 298-301.

Hooke, D., ‘Old English Wald Weald in place names’, Landscape History, 34, 1 (2013), 33-49.

Huitson, T., Stairway to Heaven: the functions of medieval upper spaces (Oxford: Oxbow Books).

Knighton, C., ‘Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester 1575-1584’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 283-88.

Rushton, K., ‘A History of the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Diocese of Canterbury, 1566-86, based on the Cause papers bound within the Volume MS.F.4.12’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 263-81.

Taylor, G., Thanet’s Dutch and Flemish Style Houses in East Kent (Birchington: Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 2013).

Taylor, L., ‘Literacy and Book Ownership in Seventeenth-Century Faversham’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 204-19.

Wright, D., ‘The Earliest Parish Registers of the Diocese of Canterbury: some Observations, Questions and Problems’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 153-87.

Wyatt, G., ‘Migration and Mobility in the Isle of Thanet in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period (c.1560-c.1620)’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 93-103.

MODERN

Adams, E., ‘A Victorian Anglican: William Peterson of Sissinghurst and Biddenden’, Cranbrook Journal, 25, 16-20.

Allinson, H., Bredgar: the history of a Kentish parish (Sittingbourne: Synjon Books, 2013). Revised and enlarged edition.

Ball, M., Sevenoaks War Memorial: the men remembered (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Banaigs, N. and Aris, B., A Year in the Life of Whitstable: a photographic record of the Town’s everyday life by local photographers (Faversham: Kent Creative Arts CIC).

Benedict, B., Woodland Holiday Camp: Among the Hills and Hazels (Kilmacanogue Row Dow Publications) [author raised at Woodlands Holiday Camp near Kemsing during the 1940s-50s].

Bennett, K., ‘Albert Josiah Bennett (1873-1954): Science in the Blood’, Society of Genealogists Magazine, 31, 5, 191-194 [Born 1873 Slade Green, Crayford, set up his own instrument maker excelsior works at Bexleyheath].

Betts, P., ‘Frittenden Rector Henry Hodges and the 1806 Tithes Dispute’, Cranbrook Journal, 25, 10-13.

Brooks, R.J., Kent’s Own. The Story of No.500 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force (Oxford: Fonthill Media). Revised edition.

Chaplen, A.W., Headcorn & The Great War 1914-1919 (Headcorn: Headcorn Local History Society, 2013) [Reproduction of Arthur W. Chaplin’s hand drawn original manuscript].

Chapman, C. R., ‘WW1 Prisoner of War Camps in Britain’, Geneaologists Magazine, 31, 7, 268 -270 [mention of Sheerness & Dover POW camps].

Chapman, M., Families of Wartime Loose: ... some of the men and women of the Loose area who died in the two Great World Wars (Loose Area History Society). Updated edition.

Clancy, J., Gillingham & Around Through Time (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Coulson, C., ‘The Barfrestone Church Conundrum: ‘Much Restored’ but ‘Virtually Unaltered’’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 153-86.

Cramp, G., Hartley Remembers the Great War 1914-1918 (Hartley: Hartley Parish Council).

Croxford, B., ‘An unusual coin collection from a pond in Smarden’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 280-81.

Cumming, R., The Windmills of North West Kent and Kentish London (Catrine: Stenlake Publishing).

Dudley, T., The History & Meaning of Newington. Street & Place Names (Sittingbourne: Newington History Group).

Elgar, P., ‘No Cake please, they’re German prisoners-of-war’, Bygone Kent, 35, 2, 16-21.

Embleton-Smith, K. and Gurr, C., Archives & Anecdotes. Reflections on English Village Life from Brabourne in Kent (East Brabourne: Brabourne Church Publishing, 2013).

Eyden, P., Dover’s Western Heights in the First World War (Dover: Buckland Media for The Western Heights Preservation Society).

Frame, J.A., Castle by the Sea: the Whitstable Castle story (Herne Bay: Fairy Faye Pub-lishers).

Foreman, C. (ed.)., An Incident of Battle Near Neuve Chapelle December 1914 (Faversham: The Faversham Society). [Centenary edition of Lieutenant Philip Neame’s account of military action during WW1. The Neame family lived and farmed at Selling.]

Gammans, N. and Allen, G., Bumblebees of Kent (Ashford: Kent Field Club).

Gaunt, J., Faces From the Front: remembering the men of Deal, Sandwich and District who died in World War 1 (Whitstable: Nick Evans).

Gillett, J. and Webb, P., Tenterden Then and Now (Biddenden: YouByYouBooks).

Graham, A., ‘Infinite Money: corruption, Party and Government in Britain 1702 - 1713’, Oxford Scholorship Online (Oxford: OUP) [references to the Stanhopes of Chevening].

Halton, R. and Stokes, B., The Medway Queen: rebuilding the hull (Gillingham: Medway Queen Preservation Society & Noodle Books).

Harrington, D., ‘A Rate Assessment for St Mary, Lewisham, 1770’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 288-307.

Harris, G., Redhead in the Clouds, How I Started Headcorn Aerodrome, the Colourful Life of Diana Patten (Stevenage: Berforts Group Ltd).

Hellicar, P., ‘The Morrell Brothers – the boys who built surburbia’, Bromleag, 2, 30, 22-31 [Developers in Chelsfield, Hayes, Petts Wood and Bromley during the 1930s-1960s].

Hellicar, C. (ed.), Home Front. Life in the towns and villages of Bromley in the Great War (Chelsfield : BBLHS Publications).

Herbert, A., ‘Hallford Lorries during the First World War’, Dartford Historical & Antiquarian Society Newsletter, 51, 13-16.

Holden, C., Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks Through Time (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Johnson, D.R., Beckenham Through Time (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Lawson, L., The War Memorial, Holy Cross Churchyard, Bearsted: in memory of the twenty-six servicemen who died in the Great War 1914-1918 (Bearsted: L. Lawson).

Lee, C., ‘Prostitution and Victorian society revisited: the Contagious Diseases Act in Kent’, Women’s History Review, 21 (2012), 301-16.

LeGear, R., ‘Chalkwell subsidence at Oad Street, near Sittingbourne’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 304-5.

Lloyd, D.J., Gillingham Through Time (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Lloyd, J., ‘The Legend of Bloody Baker’, Folklore, 125, 250-257 [legend concerning the Baker family of Sissinghurst and the Roberts of Glassenbury].

McCooey, C., Smuggling on the South Coast (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Manning, P. and Muir, I., Lest We Forget, Beckenham and the Great War (London: New Generation Publishing).

Marshall, A., Gravesend and the Mercantile Marine in the Great War: a brief example of some who gave their lives while serving in the Merchant Navy “Never Forgotten” (Gravesend: Andrew Marshall).

Marshall, A., Luddesdown War Dead: “A Fearsome Loss” (Gravesend: Andrew Marshall).

Mason, S. et al., ‘Discovering Swale’s 20th Century Defences’, KAS Newsletter, 100, 40-47 [Defence of Swale Project].

Meek, J., ‘In Farageland’, London Review of Books, 9 October 2014, 5-10 [the Thanet constituency].

Merrick, P., ‘Horses for the Great War’, Local Historian, 44, 3, 220-241 [horse depots at Dover, Chatham, Woolwich].

Millard, T., ‘He gave his life for his friends’, Cranbrook Journal, 25, 4-7 [account of Rupert Edward Inglis (1863-1916), rector of Frittenden and army chaplain].

Myers, A., Lenham and the Great War: those who served in peace and war (Lenham: Hatch Charity).

Newell, P., ‘The Heraldry of Godinton House, near Ashford. Part I: Introduction, Ward Family Heraldry and some Miscellanea’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxv, 223-233.

Newington History Group, Newington Remembers (Sittingbourne: Newington History Group).

Perkins, A., ‘Occupation patterns in six Kentish parishes 1841-81’, Local Population Studies, 91 (2013), 44-62 [Central Kent].

Perks, R.H., ‘Isaiah Shrubsall – Barge Master’, Topsail, 48, 66-75.

Plaxtol History Group., Plaxtol at War (Plaxtol).

Poulter, M., Building the Heart of Kent Hospice: a personal memoir by Molly Poulter (London: One3One).

Putkowski, J., Three Uneasy Pieces – Commemoration, Continuity, Celebration (Kimberley: Knowle Hill Publishing) [Private Thomas Highgate, Royal West Kent Regiment, and the ‘shot at dawn’ campaign. Shoreham connection, first soldier to be convicted of desertion and executed during WW1].

Rayner, C., ‘Great Aunt Clarice’s adventures behind the front line’, Bygone Kent, 35, 4, 48-51 [Clarice Alberta Spratling, a VAD nurse from Ramsgate].

Readman, P., ‘“The Cliffs are not Cliffs”: the Cliffs of Dover and national identities in Britain, c.1750-c.1950’, History, 99, 335, 241-69.

Redford, D., ‘Opposition to the Channel Tunnel, 1882-1975: identity, island status and security’, History, 99, 1, 100-12.

Sackville-West, R., The Disinherited: a story of family, love and betrayal (London: Bloomsbury).

Sackville-West, V. and Raven, S., Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: the creation of a garden (London: Virago).

Sanders, A., ‘Cranbrook roads: from 1780 – 1880’, Cranbrook Journal, 25, 13-16.

Scott, L., ‘The Light Upon The Hill – The History of Dartford Spiritualist Church’, Dartford Historical & Antiquarian Soc. Newsletter, 51, 18-21.

Singleton, T., ‘Whatever happened to Henry Dobell?’, Cranbrook Journal, 25, 7-10 [miller at Cranbrook c.1816 who fell on hard times and died at Hartley Union workhouse 1860].

Smith, V., ‘Anti-invasion defences of the First World War and Slough Fort, Allhallows’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxxiv, 305-308.

Sowden, K., Weald Villages, Charing, Westwell, Hothfield, Little Chart, Pluckley, Smarden Through Time (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Still, M., ‘Dartford 1944-45: The Sting In the Tail’ Dartford Historical & Antiquarian Soc. Newsletter, 51, 8-13 [details of V1/V2 attacks in Dartford].

Sutherland, M., Who Goes There: an autobiography (Leiston: Leiston Press) [Worked in County and Maidstone Borough Planning].

Swarbrick, J.D. & Mills, P., Tonbridge Roll of Honour – Great War Volumes 1 and 2: A Record of the Fallen (Tonbridge: Swarbrick & Mills).

Tittley, I. (ed.), Transactions of the Kent Field Club Vol. 19 - Kent’s Heathlands (Brighton: Kent Field Club).

Trethewey, J., Meopham Changing Places (Meopham: Meopham Historical Society).

Tritton, P., ‘Through Fire and Water – “Lost” pioneer women photographers’ negatives found in our library’, KAS Newsletter, 99, 4-5.

Cunningham, J., Shock of War: Tunbridge Wells, life on the Home Front 1914 – 1918. Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society Local History Monograph No. 13 (Tunbridge Wells: RTWCS).

Wakefield, D., ‘Familiar in the mouth as household words’, Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society Newsletter, Autumn, 12-15. [Randall Martin, a Tunbridge Wells doctor who fought at Arnhem.]

Walker, C. & M., Dymchurch, Eastbridge, Orgarswick and Blackmanstone: the story of the men from these villages who went to war 1914 – 1918 (Dymchurch: Dymchurch & District Heritage Group).

Wood, D. and Walsh, R.J., The Prowess of Charlie Fielder (Ware: Chaffcutter Books on behalf of the Society for Sailing Barge Research). [Account of Charles Henry Fielder’s career with Everard & Sons Ltd from 1919 working sail, steam, motorship barges].

RECENTLY CATALOGUED ARCHIVES

The following is a selection of material in Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Kent History and Library Centre and Medway and Local Studies Centre which was catalogued in 2014.

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL ARCHIVES

Parish

Blean, SS Cosmus & Damian: PCC minute books, 1980-2010 (U3-62).

Canterbury Christ Church Cathedral: Registers of marriages 2006-2012 (U3-100)

Canterbury St George: Regulations for the Militia, 1852 (U3-3)

Chartham, St Mary: Parish magazines 2009-2014 (U3-154)

Davington, St Mary Magdalene: Churchwardens/PCC, property, other 1972-2001 (U3-138)

Eltham, St Mary: Tithe rent charge book, 1844 (U3-32)

Harbledown St Michael: Register of services (St Gabriel, Rough Common), 1983-2012; Register of services (St Michael) 1998-2007; PCC minute books, 1981-2009 (U3-194)

Kingston, St Giles: Parish magazines 1928-2003 (U3-168)

Newnham, SS Peter & Paul: Register of baptisms 1886-2013 (U3-251)

Northbourne, St Augustine: Overseers’ account books, 1915-1925; Overseers’ receipt books, 1913-1926 (U3-74).

Ospringe, SS Peter & Paul: Registers of services, 1849-2004; PCC account books, 1988-2007 (U3-123)

Ripple, St Mary: Tithe altered apportionments, 1881; 1885 & 1903 (U3-132)

St John in Thanet: Service sheets, 1997-2014; Patronage papers, 1949-1995; Appointment of curates, 1941-1947; Sequestration papers, 1949-1950; Papers relating to the churchyard, 1924-1999; Papers relating to the vicarage, c.1820-1979; Papers relating to stipend, 1947; Papers relating to augmentation of income, 1946-1963; PCC balance sheets, 1987-2000; Papers relating to the chancel, 1939; 1958; Papers relating to the church, 1924-2003; Papers relating to the church hall, 1947; 1962-1987; PCC annual reports, 1929-2004; Parish correspondence, 1983-2001; Papers relating to parish boundary alterations, 1936-1958; Union of benefice, plans, 1957; Union of benefice, correspondence, 1983-2001; Papers relating to the Buller’s charity, 1948-1949; Photographs, late 19th century – 1980s; Papers relating to the Margate Pier and Harbour Company, 1792-1866; Newspaper cuttings, 1922-2003; Parish magazines, 1907-1996 (U3-140)

St Nicholas at Wade and Sarre: Register of marriages, 1993-2005 (U3-18)

Selling, St Mary the Virgin: Register of banns, 1910-2003; Register of marriages, 1936-2008; Register of confirmation, 1913-2002; Register of services, 1978-2009 (U3-229)

Sheldwich, St James: Registers of marriages, 1969-2004 (U3-186).

Whitfield Peter: Register of banns, 1989-2003; Registers of marriages, 1997-2013 (U3-66)

Whitstable, St Alphege: Papers relating to the church, 1983, 2004 (U3-290)

Canterbury City Council

Petty Session Fine and Fee account books: 1933-1953 (CC-J/PS)

Deeds relating to the Red Lion, Hackington St Stephen; 1585-1840 (CC-P/E/CP/19).

Books of Condolence completed after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales; 1997 (CC2/C/1)

Dean and Chapter of Canterbury

Pencil drawing of St Stephen’s church Canterbury (Hackington), c.1940 (DCc-Prindraw)

Photo of Dean Hewlett Johnston’s grave stone (DCc-Photo/A/26)

Stained glass thesis, 1957 (AddMs/389)

Diocese of Canterbury

Readers’ papers relating to Harold Robert Slater, 1940-1992 (DCb- L/S/41)

Confirmation returns, 2011-2012 (DCb-B/A)

Unofficial

French Church Charity Commission papers, 1573-1664 (U47)

William Fairbairns collection, early 19th century (U532)

Red Lion Residents Association, 1967-2004 (U533)

Canterbury Christian Council, 1988-1995 (U535)

Sturry deeds and papers, 18th-20th century (U536)

Ella Constance Woodruff Scrapbooks, mid-19th century-1941 (U537)

Perambulation of the Parish of Littlebourne, 19th century (U538)

Helen Goodburn papers, 20th century (U539)

Sketch book of views around Canterbury, 1910 (U540)

Herne Bay deeds, 1884-2003 (U541)

Canterbury St Mary Northgate deeds, 1821-1838 (U542)

Dr William Urry papers, 1936-2003 (U543)

Eliza Blunt commonplace book, 1868 (U544)

Band of Brothers Cricket Club: Scrapbooks, 1858-2012 (U545)

Rev. Vivian Frederick Hall MA papers, 1930-1971 (U546)

Deal Christian Men’s Fellowship, 1952-2009 (U548)

Deal and Walmer Council of Churches, 1965-2007 (U549)

Canterbury parish book, 1710-1761 (U550)

KENT HISTORY & LIBRARY CENTRE

Charities and Societies

Kent Numismatic Society, 1904-20014 (Ch177)

Writings of Samuel Graveson, 1942-1949 (Ch182)

Rural District Council

Eastry Rural District Council: minutes, 1951-1953 (RD/Ea/Am33-34)

Government Deposited

Govt deposited Home security air raid files for Tunbridge Wells, 1940-44 (MOD/HS/1)

Nonconformist

Providence Baptist Chapel, Cranbrook: church meeting minutes and church register, 1903-1997 (N40)

Zion Baptist Chapel, Folkestone: church meeting minutes, church register, trustees’ papers and record of Sunday School pupils’ marks and prizes, 1851-1996 (N41)

Grafty Green Baptist Chapel: trustees’ minutes and accounts, 1921-1996 (N42)

Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, Hawkhurst: church meeting minutes, 1910-1990 (N43)

Parish Council

Goudhurst Parish Council: Burial Board and charity minutes, 1872-1998 (PC312)

Schools

The Astor of Hever Community School: minutes and other governing body material, 1998-2006 (C/E/S/409)

Unofficial

Papers belonging to Sir Charles Igglesden: release of property and land in Tenterden and High Halden, 1694; letters from Lord Brabourne regarding Mersham Hatch, 1918; letter regarding the Ransleys, smugglers and highwaymen of Rolvenden, 1918; letter regarding false claimants to Great Maytham Hall in Rolvenden, most notably Long Tom, 1920 (U4018)

Marsh land in Eastbridge, Romney Marsh: assignment, conveyance and covenant to produce deeds etc., 1828-1829 (U3986)

Unspecified messuage in St Peter’s, Broadstairs: conveyance, 1830 (U3990)

Deal Sewerage Works: printed specification, etc., 1898 (U4008)

St Augustine’s Hospital Magazine 1958 (U4016)

Inventory of Walter Bocher of Pluckley, 1575 (U4017)

Whitbread Brewery Collections (U4023/U3555)

Land deeds for Milton, Bobbing, Sittingbourne (U4027)

Sales particulars for Maidstone district, 1886-1956 (U4037)

Deeds and documents for the Office and premises at The Hill, Cranbrook, 1834-1931 (U4010)

Deeds re Sellindge, Brabourne, Bilsington, Romney Marsh, Bilsington & Ulcombe – 2014/18 (U4029)

Poster re vagrancy in Margate, 1815 (U4028)

Map of Edwin Wiat’s land at Boxley 1720 (U3891)

MEDWAY ARCHIVES

Charities and Societies

Medway Towns Philatelic Society, 1945-2008 (DE1249)

Rochester & District Music Society, 1928-2011 (DE1250)

Chatham Historical Society minutes, 1988-2002; attendances, 1998-2010 (DE314/2/2)

Rochester Choral Society, 1871-1890 (DE 487)

Miscellaneous

DLBM Medway and Swale Dock Labour Board: Minutes, 1969-1989

Parish/Parish Council

Higham: Parish registers (P185 additional)

Cliffe: Parish vestry minutes & PCC material, 1843-1907 (P94/8/2)

Luddesdowne: Parish marriage registers 1970s -1990s; burials 1813-1995 (P235 additional)

Crockenhill: Parish registers (P139B additional)

Swanscombe Parish Council, 1894-1926 (PC362)

Petty Sessions

Justice Year books, 1966-1969 (PS/NA/500)

Unofficial

Personal estate of W Pemble of Cobham, (mainly sales catalogue), 1823-1824 (DE253)

Rimington family papers (of Rochester), 1801-1934 (DE1083)

Gillingham Court Leet: minutes and photographs of High Constables 1894-1921 (GBC/Mn)

Exchequer case deposition: Milbourn v Fisher (re oyster metage) 1837 (DE382)

Personal diaries [anon. Woman], 1860, 1862 (DE496) (DE314/1/3)

Wm Cory and Son Ltd: coal lighterage (River Thames), 1921-1971 (DE497)

Doust and Co: ship repairers, Rochester 1902-1986 (DE104)

Hulkes/Wildash partnership docs 1786-1804 (DE505)