New Books
ISBN: 0-9529383-2-4
Price: £4.99
The origin of this book was an invitation by the KAS in 1999 to the author to re-run the Society’s first excursion of 1869 ("In the steps of Becket") in the light of 130 years of archaeology. The work undertaken for that walk threw up the name and job of Robert Shinbone, Archbishop’s scullion, who appears in contemporary accounts of the events of 29th December 1170 as being made to help FitzUrse arm for the murder. This is the author’s fourth Canterbury history literary venture and is billed as 'for 11-12's of any age!' The "What is true?" section at the end of the book provides historical facts on which the book is based.
Available in Canterbury in the Cathedral giftshop, the V.I.C. & Albion Bookshop or order through the ISBN from bookshops elsewhere.
ISBN: 0-9517580-2-0
Price: £6.50 to include p&p inland, £8.00 abroad or £6.00 in person
This book will tell you all you need to know on a century of these indispensable records; history of the census and civil registration systems, parish maps of the 30 Kent registration districts with adjacent districts, the current registrars and their old registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths; the PRO census piece numbers; all available street and surname indexes; master index to all Kent parishes; tips on how to search the records; district and county statistics etc...
Available from 71 Island Wall, Whitstable, CT5 1EL. Tel: 01227 275931 Web: www.canterhill.co.uk/davidleaskent/
Also available if ordered together, this book and a previous work by the same author, East Kent Parishes 0-9517580-1-2 (featured in Newsletter no.54) at the special price of £20.00 inland, abroad £22.00 surface or £24.00 airmail, or £17.50 in person.
ISBN: 0 946606 45 4
Price: £4.50
The cinematic history of Swale, Faversham and the Isle of Sheppey, from its beginnings in 1910, through the golden years of the '30s and '40s to the gradual decline which growing competition from television and bingo in the '50s brought. This 70 page book has been warmly received by both cinema buffs and those with an interest in local history in general.
Available by post from Stuart Smith, 100 Wickfield Road, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, Yorks S12 4TT; Tel: 077 1554605 or from various outlets in Sittingbourne and Faversham.
Price: £3.50
A fully illustrated booklet which not only charts the development of the church but also explores new theories and interpretations of long-accepted stories and legends surrounding it, such as the supposed Roman villa beneath the graveyard and the death of Queen Sexburga in the church doorway.
Available from Mr N Elkin, 58 Park Road, Sittingbourne ME10 1DY. Please add 50p postage.
Price: £3.00 + p&p
There were stone bridges across the River Darent in the two parishes from the 16th century or even earlier. This account uses some hundred documents in the Centre for Kentish Studies, as well as other sources, and charts the use, repair and rebuilding of the bridges across the centuries.
Available from R A Nightingale tel: 01322 862864