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Find your own answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet... http://kent-maps.online #JSTORLABS #CCCU #EnglishCreates
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Kent Maps Online @kentmapsonline.bsky.social · Mar 28
Kent Maps Online is an interactive Digital Humanities project exploring the county’s rich heritage, using multi-disciplinary lenses to research and present historic, literary & geographical records. Travel through the site to find answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet.
www.kent-maps.online
Kentish fields
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You heard it here first: next Third Sex session useful to anyone interested in Kent history! Sign up by emailing vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com to express interest!
kentmapsonline.bsky.social Kent Maps Online @kentmapsonline.bsky.social · 8d
Born in Ramsgate, we'll have you know! And yes, she's on the KMO site...
vpfa.bsky.social Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 8d
VPFA's Third Sex Reading Group are back with their first session of 2026! In this session, co-hosted by Crescent Rainwater, they will be discussing Netta Syrett's The Victorians. If you would like to attend or be put on the mailing list,please email vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com with 'FAO: Third Sex'.
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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Congratulations to KMO contributor Diana Hirst! In the words of Prof Nicholas Royle, 'She is very good on effects of light and shadow, seeing and being, atmosphere and place (especially Kent).' For a related quick read... www.kent-maps.online//20c/20c-bow...
Book cover.
January 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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It's next month! www.favershamliteraryfestival.org
Person reading in a tree: Faverham Literary Festival.
January 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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www.tonyvaughan.co.uk/save-folkest...
Save Folkestone Library - Tony Vaughan MP | Folkestone and Hythe
FOLKESTONE LIBRARY PETITION Sign my petition calling on Kent County Council not to auction Grace Hill Library and to work with Creative Folkestone towards a community-led, grant-funded restoration Sav...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Reposting in response to the proposed auctioning of Folkestone Free Library: 3 poems on its history for a journal special issue on Water. openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article...

See also KMO entry at www.kent-maps.online//19c/19c-fol...
A. By Folkestone Library by Wayland Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149948003Declaration
January 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Free public lecture at CCCU
www.canterbury.ac.uk/events/2026/...
Guest lecture: A Curator's Tale: Andy Ward, Kent Archaeological Society
My role as curator of KAS and how I ended up here!
www.canterbury.ac.uk
January 8, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Born in Ramsgate, we'll have you know! And yes, she's on the KMO site...
vpfa.bsky.social Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 8d
VPFA's Third Sex Reading Group are back with their first session of 2026! In this session, co-hosted by Crescent Rainwater, they will be discussing Netta Syrett's The Victorians. If you would like to attend or be put on the mailing list,please email vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com with 'FAO: Third Sex'.
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Baby, it's cold out there. Not on Margate beach, in THIS poem, it's not. www.kent-maps.online/poetry/marga...
Deck chairs on beach.
January 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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New year, new you? We're not necessarily endorsing Early Modern medical advice. But we're very grateful to Dominique Gracia and Arnav, who researched William Harvey as part of his DofE volunteering. www.kent-maps.online/17c/17c-will...
Potrait of William Harvey.
January 2, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Plum pudding riots in Canterbury (and no, that's not a rush on Marks and Spencer's)
www.kent-maps.online/17c/17c-plum...
(Photo credit: Plum pudding by Dennis Sylvester Hurd, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Plum pudding by Dennis Sylvester Hurd, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
December 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This brings back memories! The only way to map Pip's world in Great Expectations was to read the first few chapters and work with clues: 'we heard this' and 'we turned to the right, towards that'. We hope you have a better Christmas than he does as a child! www.kent-maps.online/dickens/grea...
Map of Pip's world in Great Expectations.
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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#OTD in 1843: first publication of A Christmas Carol by Charles #Dickens. But did Scrooge go to school in Kent? The debate goes on...
The Ghost of Christmas Present.
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Join us in #Canterbury on Tuesday 24th February for a special talk presented by Dr Barrie Cook – former curator of coins at the British Museum.

🎟️ £10.00 per ticket
📧 To purchase, email your name and telephone number to archives@kent.gov.uk
ℹ️ More details: bit.ly/CoinHoardsEvent
About the event: Most medieval coin hoards are modest in scale and were hidden, deposited or lost by members of the working rural population, the English peasantry, and by urban workers. Among the hoards covered are notable ones from Seasalter, Ickham, Dover, Meopham, Bredgar, Charing, Maidstone and Deal, running from the reigns of Henry II to Edward VI. These hoards will be considered in their time, place and social world. While it is almost never possible to explain exactly why an individual hoard was deposited, they can all be placed in a context of work and life. Dr Barrie Cook was curator of medieval and early modern coins at the British Museum until Spring 2025. His cataloguing of new coin hoards from England, 1180 onwards, has culminated in two books: ‘English medieval coin hoards: age of the sterling penny, 1180–1351’ published in January 2025; and ‘English medieval coin hoards: from the return to gold to the Great Debasement, 1351–1560’ which is due for release in early 2026.
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Our Journal Editor Pauline would love to hear your stories and receive your images for inclusion in the 2026 Journals. SEND a brief message to Pauline right now using www.nwkfhs.org.uk/contact Pauline will be delighted to hear from you and all such communications will receive a response.
#NWKFHS
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Celebrating #250 years of #JaneAusten with 7 entries on her time in Kent! www.kent-maps.online//austen/
Godmersham, Kent.
December 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Sound Mirrors
www.kent-maps.online/built/sound-...
Sound mirror at Denge
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/library/lets... @heritagefunduk.bsky.social #HeritageFund #NationalLottery.
Let’s Do The Time Walk Again! | Library
Yesterday the Library welcomed the 'Let’s Do The Time Walk Again!' team who were hosting a volunteering event in Augustine House. 'Let’s do the time walk again!' is a project funded by The National Lo...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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We have Deal Museum and Sandwich Museum volunteers at the National Lottery Heritage funded project Let's Do the Time Walk Again volunteer event at Augustine House Library @heritagefunduk.bsky.social #NationalLottery #HeritageFund
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Drum roll please! We have Ramsgate Clock House Museum and Broadstairs Dickens Museum volunteers at the Let's Do the Time Walk Again National Lottery Heritage Fund Event @heritagefunduk.bsky.social #NationalLottery #HeritageFund
December 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Did you tell you we love Kent? It's the National Lottery Heritage Fund Let's Do The Time Walk Again volunteer training day at Augustine House Library.
December 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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A bit of Kent beach! Creative Writing students were asked to write something about the sea - and make it fit on a pebble.
A poem written on a pebble. Picture of a puffer fish.
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This Friday! www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/event/the-fe...
The Feisty Women of Canterbury
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The deadline to submit your news, articles, events and letters for our KAS magazine is this Saturday, 6th December! Please do share with anyone who may wish to submit to us.

Guidance for contributions can be found here
www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/guidance/mag...
Guidance for contributors to the KAS Magazine and eNewsletter — Kent Archaeological Society
The Kent Archaeological Society welcome short articles from professional and amateur archaeologists, commercial organisations and local societies, academics, research students, local historians and…
www.kentarchaeology.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Some wonderful events being organised by the Canterbury Commemoration Society over the next year!

www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/upcoming-eve...
Poster for The Feisty Women of Canterbury talk on 5 December.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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kmcdono.bsky.social Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Nov 21
Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.

Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
screenshot of announcement for Allmaps + IIIF Partnership reading "Open up your map collections: Announcing the Allmaps - IIIF Partnership", with mini, multicolored map outlines and the Allmaps and IIIF logos.
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM