Addition to Library, February to May 2005

KAS LibraryIssue 65
Written By Jacob Scott
  • ...more in the later and nearer East. (Swansea, 1953-1962) by F.N. Jackson.
  • Boyle, Harold, ‘Economic and Religious Views on ...the Domesday Book. (Longman, 1965)
  • Lambert, R.S. (1976). ‘A Review of Early Settlements in South East England.’
  • De Ville, Harold, ‘Recording Kent’s 20th Century Defences’, (Swansea, 1983).
  • Thomas W. ‘The History of Romney Marshes’, (1982).
  • Sawyer, J.H. (1981). ‘A Historical Survey of Forts and Castles in England.’
  • Stevens, I.A. (1980). ‘Further Review of the Geological Layers in Kent’, (Reading, 1980).
  • Wood, L.E. ‘Structures of the Saxon Shore’, (Oxford, 1985).
  • Stewart, K.D. (1976). ‘Buildings and Settlements in Roman Britain’, (London, 1976).
  • Hampshire, R. (1986). ‘Iron Age Settlements in Kent’, (Cambridge, 1986).
  • Smith, H. ‘A Survey of Historical Structures in the Isle of Thanet’, (1978).

Research

Some copies of the following issues are available from the library:...

  • ...Proceedings Vol. 19, part 3 (1986). ‘O.G.S. Crawford (1886)’, The Antiquaries Journal.
  • ...Vol. 29, part 1 (1976). The Archaeology Journal.
  • ...Part 2, vol. 36 (1978). ‘Prehistoric Settlements in Kent’. The Archaeology Journal.

...and a number of other sources.

Ewell - Village Then, Town Now. A Town. Epsom and Ewell Historical and Archaeological Society

Archaeology Vol.29 p.13, 2004

Bygone Kent Vol.13 No.3

Tracing the Past (Restoration of Ashbourne). Sussex Archaeological Society Vol.16 p.2, 2004

Archaeology. The Monuments. Vaggoshire. Wales. Bard p.3.2, 2004

Montgomeryshire Collection Vol.92, 2004

Transactions of the Historic Society Lancashire and Cheshire. Vol.151, 2004

Irish Mines in Neolithic Britain. Miles Russell. Dept. of Archaeology. Bournemouth. Journal No.13, 2003

Life at the Spring. St. John's Catholic Comprehensive School, Gravesend, Whitehill; remembered. (Tribute to Wales Tanga). Kent's place in Archaeology. British School of Surgery 2003.

Bones and poppies - an index of war recognition from Snargate Press.

Books and pamphlets. Teaching of History through the Ages, Trent & Peak.

National English Church. Reading Listed Places. Reading Legal. Reading Teachers' Professional Studies.

Cartulary Court of Charney (Jerusalem) Wilts 1552-1837. (W.J.Conway)

A NEW VENTURE - informal adult learning

RESEARCHING LOCAL HISTORY with Dr. Jacqueline Bower

Enroll now!!! Only 20 places available.

The course will be held on Monday afternoons in the KAS library in Maidstone Museum. It will be in 4 modules of 5 sessions each, priced at £20 per module. The sessions will commence at 2 p.m. and finish at 4 p.m.

The course will cover a wide range of sources and include live online internet research.

Module 1 from 19 September 2005 for five weeks

The Victorian Community

How to use trade directories, census returns and a range of other sources, to research towns and villages in Victorian Kent.

Module 2 from 31 October 2005 for five weeks

Reconstructing the Community

Using parish registers and other sources to reconstruct the population of a parish from the 16th century to the 19th century.

Module 3 from 9 January 2006 for five weeks

Parish Affairs

Sources for local government in the 18th and early 19th centuries, especially the relief of the poor.

Module 4 from 20 February 2006 for five weeks

Life in Elizabethan and Stuart Kent

Using probate records and other sources to research work and living standards in the late 16th and 17th centuries. Plus guidance on reading old handwriting.

An enrollment form for the first module is included in this Newsletter.

Jacob Scott