Histories

• The population of Victorian and Edwardian Kent
• The Public Markets of some north-west Kent Towns 1700-1850
• George Smeed
• The major Kentish Towns in the religious Census of 1851
• The Sandwich to Dover Turnpike, 1833-1874
• The Construction of the Sevenoaks Railway Tunnel 1863-68
• Railways and the Community: the Kentish Evidence
• The Road Services of Kent in the Nineteenth Century
• Grassroots Politics in West Kent since the late Eighteenth Century
• The Tithe Commutation Surveys

Disruptions of the 1830's

• The Courtenay Uprising
• Swing: The years 1827—1830 as reflected in a west Kent newspaper
• The ‘Men of Kent’ and the Penenden Heath Meeting, 1828

The Stuart & Tutor Eras (1485-1685)

• The impact of London on the county 1480-1660
• The impact of the county on the nation 1480-1660
• The Population of Sandwich from the Accession of Elizabeth Ito the Civil War
• London and north-west Kent in the later Middle Ages: The Development of a Land Market
• The mid-Tudor Market in Crown Land in Kent
• A London City Church Estate in Kent: St Botolph’s, Sevenoaks, 1646-2002
• Reconstructing Literary Life in the Provinces with special reference to the Elizabethan Gentry of Kent
• Interpretations of the Influence of the Immigrant Population in Kent in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Debt in the Cranbrook Region in the Late Seventeenth Century
• Wages paid at Maidstone in Queen Elizabeth's Reign
• The Kent yeoman in the seventeenth century
• Social rehabilitation 1480-1660
• Municipal betterments 1480-1660
• Education 1480-1660
• The structure of charities in the parishes 1480-1660
• The structure of class aspirations 1480-1660
• Iron Manufacture in Tonbridge Parish, with special reference to Barden furnace 1552-1771
• An Early Tudor Kiln at Hareplain, Biddenden
• Some Evidence on the Smuggling of Fuller’s Earth from the Medway Estuary during the seventeenth Century
• Seal, Kemsing and Ightham — 1560 to 1650
• The Weald and Its Refugee Annals
• The Dutch James Family of Ightham Court
• Maritime East Mailing
• Arden of Faversham

Politics in the Tutor & Stuart Eras

• Cobham Hall: Letters to the last Duke of Lenox, A.D. 1667—72. With Notices of the Dutch Flee in the Thames, A.D. 1667 (p. 378); and the Walsingham Pedigree
• Trinity Fort and the defences of the second Anglo-Dutch war at Gravesend in 1667
• Dutch Raid of 1667
• Suspected Persons in Kent 1656
• The Exile of two Kentish Royalists during the English Civil War
• The Royalist Rising in Kent, A.D. 1648
• Discovery of a manuscript eye-witness Account of the Battle of Maidstone
• Battle of Maidstone 1648
• For King and Kent (1648): A True Story of the Great Rebellion (vol 1 of 3)
• Sir William and Lady Ann Brockman of Beachborough, Newington by Hythe: a Royalist Family’s experience of the Civil War
• The Royalist rising and parliamentary mutinies of 1645 in west Kent
• Arms and Armour seized at Knole during the Civil War
• The Clergy and Allegiance at the Outbreak of the English Civil Wars: the case of John Marston of Canterbury
• Election Issues and the Borough Electorates in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Kent
• The Kentish Election of March, 1640
• The International Entrepôt at Dover in Crisis: English Fishing Entrepreneurs, Dunkirk Privateers, Government Policy, and The Character of King Charles I, 1637— 1640
• Levies from Kent to the Elizabethan Wars (1589—1603)
• Faversham’ s Role in the Armada and Counter-Armada
• Armada Preparations in Kent and Arrangements made after the Defeat (1587—1589)
• The 1566 survey of the Kent coast
• The Wyatt Rebellion of 1554 - History Learning Site
• Wyatt Rebellion 1554 - Tudor Place
• Sir Thomas Wyatt's Assault on Cooling Castle, 30th January 1554
• Was Sir Thomas Wyatt able to draw on a Culture of Rebellion in Kent in 1554?
• Henry VIII and Kent

Old Landed Families from our area

1. The Astleys of Maidstone (1)
2. The Astleys of Maidstone (2)
3. A Fourteenth-Century Court Roll of the Manor of Ambree, Rochester
4. The Lowy of Tonbridge and the Lands of the Clare Family in Kent, 1066-1217
5. The Cobhams and Moresby's of Rundale and Allington.
6. The Cobham Family in the Administration of England, 1200-1400
7. Estates of the Cobham Family in the Later Thirteenth Century
8. The Lords of Cobham (I)
9. The Lords of Cobham (II)
10. Culpepper Connections
11. The families and house of Oxenhoath, West Peckham
12. Hollingbourne Manor and the Culpepers
13. Sir Robert Filmer of East Sutton
14. Brief Notes on the Hales Family
15. Hales Place at Hackington and its Predecessors
16. The Ropers and their Monuments in Lynstead Church
17. The Roper gateway, St. Dunstan’s Street, Canterbury
18. Ulcombe, Ireland and the St. Legers
19. Sir Arnald Savage of Bobbing
20. The Last Savages of Bobbing

Castles & Manors

1. The Owners of Allington Castle, Maidstone (1086-1279)
2. Allington Castle
3. Cobham Hall: the House and Gardens
4. Wax, Stone and Iron: Dover’s Town Defences in the late Middle Ages
5. The Court Rolls and Other Records of the Manor of Ightham as a Contribution to Local History (I)
6. The Court Rolls and other records of the Manor of Ightham as a contribution to Local History (II)
7. Leeds Castle
8. Refortification at Rochester in the 1220s: a Public/Private Partnership?
9. Tonbridge Castle and its Lords
10. Tonbridge Castle: Further Observations on an ancient Castle
11. Tonge Castle
12. Westenhanger Castle — a Revised Interpretation

The Sea & Cinque Ports

• The Artillery Defences at Gravesend
• Chancery and the Cinque Ports in the Reign of Elizabeth I
• The Cinque Ports
• Cinque Ports - 1155AD -1500AD
• The Fourteenth-Century Merchant Ship from Sandwich: a Study in Medieval Maritim Archaeology
• An Archaeological Evaluation of the Medieval Shipyard Facilities at Small Hythe
• Excavating Dover's medieval seafarers
• The Cinque Ports: a brief history

Medieval Politics

1. Sources for Kentish history: Trade and industry
2. The adventures of a Kentish Spy (Wars of the Roses)
3. The Maidstone Sector of Buckingham's Rebellion Act, Oct. 18, 1483
4. The Kentish Origins and Connections of Sir George Brown (c.1438-1483)
5. Fauconberge's Kentish Rising in 1471
6. A Forgotten Kentish Rebellion, September-October 1470
7. Lancastrian Loyalism in Kent during the Wars of the Roses
8. Historical Memoranda of John Stowe: On Cade's rebellion (1450)
9. Jack Cade's Rebellion
10. Henry VI (eBook)
11. The Political Allegiances of Christ Church Priory 1400-1472: the Evidence of John Stone's Chronicle
12. Brotherhood and Confraternity at Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the 15th Century: the Evidence of John Stone's Chronicle
13. Thomas Rolff: An examination of the structure of society within the Kentish High Weald based upon the study of a fifteenth-century parish clerk
14. The Origins of the Preceptory of West Peckham
15. Dover Castle: Key to Richard II’s Kingdom?
16. The Community of Kent in the Reign of Richard II
17. Sequel To The Rebellion of 1381 (KAS)
18. The Hundred of Wye and the Great Revolt of 1381
19. Rebellion of 1381, from Public Records (KAS)
20. The Great Revolt of 1381 (Charles Oman)
21. English Politics and the Sheriff of Kent, 1378
22. The Siege of Maidstone Rectory in 1297
23. The Kent Hundred Rolls: Local Government and Corruption in the Thirteenth Century
24. Kent Pipe Rolls (1130-1230 KAS)
25. Extracts from the Life of Archbishop Becket by William of Canterbury
26. Development of the Kentish marshes in the aftermath of the Norman conquest
27. Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent
28. The Earldom of Kent from c. 1050 till 1189

Origins of Gavelkind the Lathes & Hundreds

• The Tenures of Kent (searchable)
• The Customs, Rights and Privileges of the population of the ancient county of Kent (recorded 1293)
• The Origin of the Lathes of east Kent

The Saxon Era

1. The Origin of the Lathes of east Kent
2. The Witan Meets at Canterbury
3. The Cwylla of King Edmund’s West Malling Charter
4. On the Jute, Angel and Saxon Royal Pedigrees
5. The Lathe of Aylesford in 975
6. King Alfred’s naval engagement with the Danes, 885: which River Stour?
7. The Vikings come to Thanet
8. The life and records of Eadberht, son of King Wihtred
9. The Period of Mercian Rule in Kent, and a Charter of A.D. 811
10. The usurpation of King Swaebheard
11. King Hlothere
12. King Oswin—A Forgotten Ruler of Kent
13. Kings of Kent
14. King Aethelberht
15. Hengest