Poster for The Feisty Women of Canterbury talk on 5 December.
Some wonderful events being organised by the Canterbury Commemoration Society over the next year!
www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/upcoming-eve...
24.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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21.11.2025 12:42 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
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Poster for Volunteering Day on 10 December. Email Lily Turvey for details: lily.turvey@canterbury.ac.uk
16.11.2025 20:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Volunteers at the Dickens House Museum, Broadstairs.
KMO are working with four local museums on 'Let's do the time walk again! Exploring the East Kent Coast Through Digital Heritage', funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thank you to all the volunteers who are giving up their time to make it happen!
11.11.2025 09:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes please! Carolyn Oulton (CCCU) on behalf of Kent Maps Online.
11.11.2025 09:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Apples
Apples contribute to blood pressure control through antioxidants and fibre. Great county to be in! www.kent-maps.online/21c/21c-brog...
31.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apples
My lunch - locally sourced apples from a Kentish orchard - well done, Tesco (although without the plastic next time). It put me in the mood to read about our agriculture past www.kent-maps.online/garden/ - let's hope it remains our agriculture present and future.
30.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Volunteers at Sandwich Museum
Fabulous meeting with the volunteers and Millie Battershill at Sandwich Museum to discuss next steps on the National Heritage Lottery Fund project 'Let's Do The Time Walk Again!' sandwichguildhallmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/let...
30.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All ticket income will go to the Friends of St Stephen’s fundraising for repairs to the church windows.
www.eventbrite.co.uk (booking fee applies) or pay on the door, cash only. The performance lasts around fifty minutes without an interval. Refreshments are available afterwards.
28.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Witches
CCCU's Dr David Hitchcock talks to ITV News about the witchcraft trial of seven women in Maidstone in 1652.
@kentmapsonline.bsky.social
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
28.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Very Reverend Dr David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury.
30 October, The Very Reverend Dr David Monteith on 'Deans Down the Ages: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'. 7.00 pm, St Peter's Anglican Church, High Street, Canterbury. CCS members free, others only £5.00 on door or in advance from www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/events www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/event/deans-...
23.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jerome in a top hat surrounded by fairies.
Love Jerome K. Jerome? Biography now free to read at archive.org/details/9781...
13.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just to clarify - adult content in this context just means it's a statue in the Sissinghurst gardens!
13.10.2025 08:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statue in the Sissinghurst gardens.
End of the week, but you can do it: Where's the statue? What does Virginia #Woolf have to do with Kent? www.kent-maps.online/20c/20c-wool...
10.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Map of Kent
Let's do the time walk again! www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/2025/fr...
06.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crowd funding for Fisher’s Estuarine Moth Mural
03.10.2025 07:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Discover Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first time
amzn.to/46ya8sv
02.10.2025 03:17 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A photograph of the Princeton University Press building on the Princeton campus.
Librarians everywhere! Please share your insights so we can improve your experience and better serve your communities.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QTM3JG
#library #libraryprograms @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @librarianadhd.bsky.social
01.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tickets are now live for the Kent Archaeological Society's annual fieldwork conference, taking place on Saturday 22nd November at Aylesford Priory.
The topic for the day is the Isle of Thanet and North-East Kent: Research and Discoveries.
Book Here: www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/events/thane...
01.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Blue Plaques: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.
Canterbury Commemoration Society want to know - who gets YOUR vote for a blue plaque in the city? www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/our-projects...
01.10.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sissinghurst Castle.
Which friend and lover of Vita Sackville-West www.kent-maps.online//20c/20c-sac... is COMING SOON to KMO? We'll give you a clue: this person gave her the printing press now held at #Sissinghurst
29.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Remember the controversy over the Alluvia sculpture? If you enjoyed Heather Murdoch's interview with Jason deClaires Taylor, see more on KMO... www.kent-maps.online/21c/21c-allu...
22.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Canterbury's 'Alluvia' has been shortlisted for a prestigious sculpture award - now comes the final public vote! pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma... You can also read an interview with Jason deCaires Taylor, from our very own CCCU alumna Heather Murdoch at blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/alumni/2025/...
21.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
International Image Interoperability Framework #iiif
www.iiif.io
Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
Thanet is a great place to live and work, with 140,000 residents, 19 miles of stunning coastline and beautiful Blue Flag beaches.
See thanet.gov.uk/newsroom for latest updates from the Communications team on behalf of the council.
'Let's do the time walk again!' Exploring the East Kent Coast Through Digital Heritage is an exciting two year project, working with local East Kent museums to bring an entertaining digital past to you!
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
MSDS provide an integrated approach to heritage and a wide range of services specialising in archaeological projects in a range of environments from land to sea.
All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
News and updates from the county of #Kent, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
All photos/videos made by me and all images are subject to copyright.
https://buymeacoffee.com/hopphotofilm
Visit also:
@hopphotofilm.bsky.social
@blueskygallery.bsky.social
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hopphotofilm/videos
Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news.
Follow us as we visit different #railways around the #UK. Visit the website (www.railadvent.co.uk) for News, Videos, Pictures, Event Calendar and lots more!
Research into the past and present dialect, accent, proverbs and sayings of Kent. With some Kentish folklore and customs for added interest.
Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre holds historic materials for the London Borough of Bexley
The official account of the Kent Family History Society, Kent, England
Welcome to The University of Kent’s official BlueSky feed 👋 We're ambitious for our people, our communities and the region we serve.
All the latest news for Kent - brought to you by the KentOnline team. Send stories and pics to news@thekmgroup.co.uk
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
We are one of Kent's and the UK's premier Family History Societies - if you want to find out more why not take a look at our website:
https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk
