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Library Acquisition: Cobham Landscape Detectives
Cobham Landscape Detectives was a three year, lottery funded, community archaeology project. It aimed to explore the Kentish Parish of Cobham and beyond. The booklet details some of the discoveries that were made and the history that was uncovered. It takes a chronological approcah, beginning in Prehistory and ending with WWII military camps that still dot the landscape. This booklet has kindly been donated to the KAS library by the Detectives.
Library reopening from August
From August 2020 it will be possible for members to visit the Library again but due to Covid 19 there are restrictions in place
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Bones found in Kent church likely to be of 7th-century saint
Bones discovered more than a century ago in a Kent church are almost certainly the remains of an early English saint who was the granddaughter of Ethelbert, the first English king to convert to Christianity, experts have concluded.
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KAS features in The Great British Dig on Channel 4
The Society features in Channel 4's The Great British Dig, available to watch now on-demand at 4OD.
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1989 Day out in Kent
I came across this video (slightly dated) on the weekend where the London and Surrey 'Earth Mysteries' groups have a day trip around some of the Kentish prehistoric sites. Particularly of interest to me was the visit to Chestnuts. (I believe that site is currently inaccessible, being on private land.) The video prompted me to take my own little day trip to to find the Chiding Stone.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names during Lockdown
For a short period of time the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names has made its database available for free. "This huge, new dictionary is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK, covering English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames. It includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers, and those that had more than 20 bearers in the 1881 census."
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Video message from KAS President-Elect Kerry Brown
Kerry Brown, appointed President Elect of the Kent Archaeology Society in May 2020, talks about what the Society means to the county of Kent and his vision for the KAS in the future.
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Free access to digital record from Kew
The National Archives are making digital records available on their website free of charge for as long as our Kew site is closed to visitors. Registered users will be able to order and download up to ten items at a time, to a maximum of 50 items over 30 days. The limits are there to try and help manage the demand for content and ensure the availability of our digital services for everyone.
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Archaeology Resources Hub
The Council for British Archaeology are bringing together free resources to help anyone engaged in archaeology, whether you are an organisation looking for practical help, or are looking for content to keep you or your family entertained at home.
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Free resources on Muse
In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for the foreseeable future, we hope that easy access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, will help to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide.
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The Rainfall Rescue Project is seeking volunteers
The UK has rainfall records dating back 200 years or so, but the vast majority of these are in handwritten form and can't easily be used to analyse past periods of flooding and drought. The Rainfall Rescue Project is seeking volunteers to transfer all the data into online spreadsheets. You're not required to rummage through old bound volumes as the Met Office has already scanned the necessary documents - all 65,000 sheets.
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Coronavirus Update
The Kent Archaeological Society is continuing to follow and monitor official guidance from the UK Government and Public Health England carefully. It is of vital importance for us to ensure that any and all procedures are in place to support the health and well-being of our volunteers and membership.
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Fieldwork bulletin
The fieldwork committee provides on update on the newly formed Fieldwork Form, including presentations on the excavations from around Kent.
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Education Committee Activities 2019
The KAS Education Committee reports on activities in 2019.
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Exploring Kentish Naming Practices
A report on the Exploring Kent Naming Practices conference held on Saturday 17 November 2018.
How will a no-deal Brexit affect Library collections?
The Government has recently published advice on how copyright laws will change in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The library will certainly be affected by changes to the management of 'orphan work' images. See the paragraph below for details. If this comes to pass the Library will create a new policy to apply to those requesting the use of orphan works from within our collection.
- Archaeology Research Group
- Ashford
- Barham
- BBC
- Benenden
- Bethersden
- Bridge
- Canterbury
- Centre for Kent History and Heritage
- Charing
- Chatham
- Chatham Historic Dockyard
- Chislehurst
- Church History
- Crayford Manor House Historical Society
- Deal
- Education Committee
- Excavations
- Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society
- Faversham
- Geophysics
- Hasted Prize
- Historic Buildings Research Group
- History & Archives Research Group
- Isle of Sheppey
- Isle of Thanet
- Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society
- Kent Defences Research Group
- Kent Messenger
- Lees Court Estate Project
- Little Chart
- Maidstone
- Maritime
- Maritime Kent Research Group
- Medieval
- Military History
- Modern
- Monasticism
- Norton
- Orpington & District Archaeological Society
- Place Names Research Group
- Pluckley
- Prehistoric
- Romney Marsh
- Selling
- Snargate
- Students
- The Faversham Society
- Thirsk Prize
- Trust for Thanet Archaeology
- Volunteering
- Westerham
- Westwell
- Women's Histories
- Wye