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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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Landscape painting and Canterbury Cathedral
www.kent-maps.online/landscape/se... #art #kent #landscape
Cows in a water meadow with view of Canterbury Cathedral
February 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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And who graduated with a PhD yesterday? Yup, it's KMO and Time Walk! Co-Lead Michelle.
Graduation Card: Persistent Scribblers
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Graduating from Canterbury Cathedral with an MA in Heritage. Recognise any of these dudes from the KMO contributor page? Looking at you, Jane Delamaine and Time Walk! colleague Lily Turvey.
Graduation
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Is Madonna hinting that she'd like to write a song for KMO? She knows where to find us... www.independent.co.uk/life-style/m...
Madonna hails Margate as ‘heaven’ – as she reveals love for mysterious restaurant
The Queen of Pop says visiting the seaside town ‘is like a dream’
www.independent.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Our former colleague and KMO contributor Martin Watts. #LocalHistory He says he is 'very open to researching and developing bespoke talks to your members.' talkabouthistory.org
Talk about History
Presenting historical talks for private and public events. Sharing my passion for connecting the past with people and place.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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“It reduces the chances of buildings being sold at auction, traded for planning gain or land-banked...”
Full story: www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/...
January 21, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Chalk! It's everywhere!

www.kent-maps.online/landscape/co... #geology #kent #valuedlandscape #heritage
January 21, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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One for the Thomas Sidney Cooper fans... blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/artsandcultu...
“On, on; come on”, a silverpoint drawing of Thomas Sidney Cooper by Roy Eastland
In a blog originally written by Roy in 2019 he talks about the background, method and meaning behind the work and what it means to him…
blogs.canterbury.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Canterbury Cathedral in its Landscape setting #canterburycathedral #canterbury #wincheap
www.kent-maps.online/landscape/ca...
January 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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‘To the votaries of fashion Broadstairs does not present overpowering attractions’. Wow, those old guide books knew how to sell a resort!
Broadstairs from Bleak House.
January 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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You heard it here first: next Third Sex session useful to anyone interested in Kent history! Sign up by emailing [email protected] to express interest!
kentmapsonline.bsky.social Kent Maps Online @kentmapsonline.bsky.social · 28d
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 · 28d
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 [email protected] 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...
www.tonyvaughan.co.uk
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 · 28d
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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]
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