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Next up: '"all flirtations and curates": selling the seaside to railway readers.’ Looking forward to next week with the Kent Family History Society!

Another hard day in the office... Project team meeting at Sandwich Guildhall Museum for 'Let's do the time walk again! Exploring the East Kent Coast Through Digital Heritage.'

Festival of Archaeology 2025 | Canterbury Cathedral

Including talks by CCCU's Dr Ellie Williams and Time Walk colleague Rev Dr Lesley Hardy. www.canterbury-cathedral.org/whats-on/eve...

The Marine parade Margate, engraving

The sun is shining and I am getting holiday vibes. This article about Margate in the 19th century is putting me in the mood for sun, sea and sand www.kent-maps.online/19c/19c-marg...

A lovely view across #EastWearBay on our site visit to see Canterbury Archaeological Trust's community excavation. A wonderful site slowly being lost to the sea. Learn more on their website www.canterburytrust.co.uk/east-wear-bay or better yet visit them this weekend, Saturday 26th July!

Swag as WELL as great papers! Lovely to have the Dickens Fellowship Conference on our doorstep this year, brilliantly organised by Jacquie Stamp.

(Victorian) library catalogues "have a lot to answer for", says Carolyn Oulton, as they perpetuate(d) a system of classification, eg. why was Thackeray catalogued as 'literature' and Dickens as 'fiction'?
#VPFAExtremes

Lovely to see so many authors with Kent connections being celebrated at the @vpfa.bsky.social conference this week!

Next we have Lucy Ella Rose discussing the decadent transformations of protagonists in Netta Syrett’s novels as they come to epitomise the transgressive extremes of the 'New Movement' #VPFAExtremes

The Nightingale, the Chough and the Phoenix – flying together in Canterbury and Kent | Centre for Kent History and Heritage From my perspective, this is the last CKHH blog. Consequently, I would just like to say that when Matthew Crockatt said back in 2014 the best way to build an audience was to post regularly and often, ...

Spent the day running to the toilet - to be fair, it was 800 years old and it was raining.
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In which the talented Heather Murdoch interviews the also very talented Jason deCaires Taylor for KMO! blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/alumni/2025/...

Engraving showing a crowd at the marine parade Hythe

Major Alfred Moberly's sketch of the Prince of Wales opening the Hythe Marine Parade and Embankment. www.kent-maps.online/19c/19c-mobe...

Volunteering flyer for 'Let's do the time walk again!'

Looking for #Volunteering opportunities this summer? You've just found four: in Deal, Ramsgate, Sandwich and Broadstairs. To find out more, email carolyn.oulton@canterbury.ac.uk - or get in touch with one of our partner museums.

Deal parade.

Top tips for keeping cool this #NationalSeasideDay - dressing like a Victorian was never going to be one of them...

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Local authors and what they mean to us | Library Over the past eighteen months the library has featured local Kent authors in its book displays on floor 3. This initiative was the brilliant idea of Nick Berbiers, a PhD literature candidate, who, ins...

Loved researching and making these @kentmapsonline.bsky.social displays! Denton Welch was the last one, still want to explore Tonbridge and follow in his footsteps there.

Local authors and what they mean to us | Library Over the past eighteen months the library has featured local Kent authors in its book displays on floor 3. This initiative was the brilliant idea of Nick Berbier, a PhD literature candidate, who, insp...

We salute you library colleagues blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/library/loca...

Winbolt

One hundred years ago Roman Folkestone by S.E. Winbolt was published. www.kent-maps.online/20c/20c-winb...

Early 19C view of Ramsgate harbour.

In Greenwich this week for the Heritages 2025 conference. See you there?

Paul Nash painting of the Battle of Britain

We have some lovely new articles including Reminiscences of a Railway Worker and Romney Marsh in World War 2. Thank you to our wonderful contributors, Adam and Lucy. #worldwar2 #kenthistory

Presentation at Centre for Kent History and Heritage

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon at the Centre for Kent History and Heritage Stakeholder Event. Thank you to ckhh.org.uk for the splendid talks and afternoon tea.

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Of course! Email carolyn.oulton@canterbury.ac.uk and we can fill you in on the details.

Hooden horse, Deal Museum.

We are partnering with museums in Deal, Sandwich, Ramsgate and Broadstairs. Volunteers will gain experience in archival research as well as digital upskilling. All made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Want to talk?

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Archives in a jar

Louis Wain cat

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Kent is always on my mind - a fun day at Archives Fest which was held at the National Archives. #Kent #Archives I especially liked the "There Be Monsters" sculpture by Rosalie Harlock and Workshop & Co. and the art activity by alineart.co.uk

Let’s do the time walk again! is a project funded by The National Heritage Lottery Fund and created by CCCU in partnership Deal Museum, Ramsgate Clock House Museum and Dickens House Museum and of course, us!

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Sandwich Barbican

For more details about how Kent Maps Online will be working with Sandwich Guildhall Museum on the National Lottery Heritage fund project "Let's do the time walk again" have a look at their website where you will find volunteering opportunities
sandwichguildhallmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/let...

Three cats singing

I love this article written by Nick Evans about Louis Wain www.kent-maps.online/19c/19c-wain... #westgateonsea #kent #cats #illustrator #louiswain Library reference: ICV No 51428 Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Sandwich GuildHall Museum

@sandwichmuseum.bsky.social is recruiting volunteers. Join our project 'Let's do the time walk again! Exploring the East Kent Coast Through Digital Heritage' (National Lottery Heritage Fund). Researching / recording archives, digital upskilling, storytelling. Free training and networking events.