Life

Everyday Life for the people in Our Kentish Genealogy

Abolitionist Movement

• The Cobbs of Margate: Evangelicalism and Anti-Slavery in the Isle of Thanet, 1787-1834
• Kent and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: a County Study, 1760s-1807

Army

• The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
• The New Romney Fencible Cavalry (Duke of York’s Own) 1794 to 1800
• List of Kent Trained Bands who served in the Bishops War (1639), or served under Waller in the Civil English War
• The Elizabethan Trayned Bandes
• The Hundred Years War - Yalding Village Project

Bees & Beekeeping

• Bee Boles and Beehouses
• Further Bee Boles in Kent
• More Kentish Bee Boles
• Bee Boles in Kent

Birds

• Two Kent Pigeon Houses

Blacksmiths

• Blacksmiths of Kent

Chalk MIning

• Three agricultural Chalk Mines in north-west Kent
• Some Early Chalkwells in N. W. Kent

Charities

• The structure of charities in the parishes 1480-1660

Child Bearing

• Childbirth in Medieval and Tudor Times by Sarah Bryson

Cloth Industry

• Wealden Broadcloth
• The Demise of the Kent Broadcloth Industry in the Seventeenth Century: England's first
• De-Industrialization

Christianity - see Histories

• West Country Preachers - GenUKI
• The first hundred years of Quakerism in Kent
• The first hundred years of Quakerism in Kent: Part II
• Churchgoing in the Cradle of English Christianity: Kentish Evidence from the 16th to
  • the 20th Centuries
• The Religion of Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672): a Case Study in Gentry Piety in
• Seventeenth-Century England
• The Divine Durant: A Seventeenth-Century Independent
• The Prophesying Movement in Kentish Towns during the 1570
• Preaching and the Reformation in Henrician Kent
• Yalding Church 1336

Church Wardens

• What is a Church Warden? | edmonton.anglican.org

Clothes

• A Counter Blast to Machine Sewing - Comments by a 16C Tailor
• The Elizabethan Costuming Homepage. An essential page for Elizabethan costumers, lovingly laid out by Drea Leed.
• Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes, transcribed by Maggie Secara, here at Renaissance.
• The Renaissance Tailor, an extensive site with primary source tests and period patterns and methods of construction.
• 1550-1600 in Fashion at Wikipedia.
• Elizabethan Costume: History and Technique at Margo Anderson's One Tough Costumer, which also features Guidelines for the Bad Elizabethan Costume Contest.
• Scottish Clothing for Men and For Women at Medieval Scotland.
• Irishwomen's Dress, documented Irish clothes of the sixteenth century including the Shirone Gown, now in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin; part of Reconstructing History.
• The Blackwork Embroidery Archives, original patterns inspired by period sources, from the designer of Renaissance.
• The Costume Site, Online Costuming Sources for Historical, Science Fiction and Fantasy Costumers.
• Visitors' Costume Guide from the Heart of the Forest Renaissance Faires. More traditional Renaissance Faire theatrical guidelines based on Elizabethan Costuming by Janet Winter and Carolyn Savoy.
• To Make a Beautiful Color, an introduction to trade (commercial) dyes of the sixteenth century by Gwyn Carnegie at her Obscure References pages..
• Footwear of the Middle Ages, a history of the development of footwear and shoemaking techniques up to the end of the sixteenth century, by I. Marc Carlson.
• The Ultimate Guide to Online Renaissance Resources , from Star Costumes, has lots of usefukl links.

Coal MIning

• Kent Coal Mining

Commerce

• Money, Finance, Scams and Wheezes in the Tutor Era
• Swine, Salt and Seafood: a Case Study of Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Settlement in
• North-East Kent

Copperas Industry

• The Kentish Copperas Industry

Crime & Punishment

• Finally a County Police Force
• Early Tudor JPs at Work
• Smuggling
• The Aldington Gang
• The Hawkhurst Gang (1735-49)
• Some Evidence on the Smuggling of Fuller’s Earth from the Medway
• Estuary during the seventeenth Century
• Early Tudor JPs at Work
• Manor Court Yalding 1336

Debt

• Debt in the Cranbrook Region in the Late Seventeenth Century

Dockyards & Shipbuilding

• History of Chatham Dockyard
• The Dockyard Work-force: A Picture of Chatham Dockyard c. 1860
• Dockyard Economy and Naval Power (eBook 1863)
• Reminiscences of Seventy Years' Life, Travel (eBook 1895 - Chatham & Sheerness dockyards)
• Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy at Sandwich in the eighteenth Century
• Chatham Dockyard and a little-known shipwright, Matthew Baker (1530—1613)
• Granite and lime: The building of Chatham Dockyard’s first stone dry dock.
• Visits to Rochester and Chatham made by Royal, Noble and Distinguished Personages, English and Foreign, from the Year 1300 to 1783.

Family

• Population and Family Structure in the sixteenth-century Weald

Fairs

• Village Fair in Yalding 1336
• Objections to Yalding Fair in Yalding 1336

Family

• Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England

Farming (see videos on Tutor & Victorian farming) -

• The Making of the agrarian Landscape of Kent
• Melissa Joyce Agricultural Change in 19th century Kent
• The Agricultural Revolution
• The Kent yeoman in the seventeenth century
• Late-Continued Demesne Farming at Otford
• Thomas Tusser's 500 Points of Husbandrie (1573), with notes and glossary.
• The Garden Visit Guide's chapter on Renaissance gardens in England.
• The Museum of Garden History next to Lambeth palace.
• Flowers for an Elizabethan Garden "Being a Compendium of Knowledge Historical and Practical About Flowers of the Elizabethan Age for Use by Modern Gardeners" by Jane Abbot.
• Thomas Etty Esq., "supplier of heritage seeds and bulbs for the period garden".
• Scents of the Middle Ages: Uses of the aromas of herbs, spices and resins by Jennifer Heise (Jadwiga Zajaczkowa).
• Medieval and Renaissance Gardens by Jennifer Heise (Jadwiga Zajaczkowa).
• From The Medieval Village Project (Yalding)
  • Food Production
  • Grain Crops
  • Farm Animals
  • Equipment in Yalding
  • Tithing Groups
  • Harvesting
  • Medieval Farm Tools
  • The Croft
  • Weather and Harvest
• Regional Differences in Crop Production in Mediaeval Kent
• Some Fields and Farms in Medieval Kent
• Denns, Droving and Danger
• Normans bring Feudalism

Food

• Elizabethan Food, a page of references and links for students, with recipes and bibliography, from Cindy Renfrew.
• The Medieval and Renaissance Food Page, from Greg Lindahl.
• Medieval and Renaissance Brewing Home Page, also from Greg Lindahl.
• Elizabethan Brewing, an extended essay on ingredients and techniques by Paul Placeway.
• Food Heritage Press, purveyors of historic cookery books.
• Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, from the Folger.
• The Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipes, and Helpful Hints, from the Folger.
• The Medieval Diet
• Food and Drink in Yalding 1336
• Medieval Recipes

Fruit Growing

• Fruit Growing in Kent in the Nineteenth Century

Games

• The Medieval and Renaissance Games Homepage, from Justin du Coeur.
• Elizabethan Card Games, at the Tattershall Trayned Band.

Gentry

• Managing a Noble Household: A Book of Orders and Rules, 1595

Heriot

• Definition from Yalding Medieval village Project (1336) Heriot Records and Mortuary Records.

Homes

• Historic Homes at the Museum of Kent Life - YouTube

Hops

• What are hops
• How are hops grown?
• Why were hops grown in Kent?
• Why did the industry die out in Kent?
• What are oast houses and how did they work?
• History of The Hop Farm
• Kent Life ~ Hop Picking - YouTube
• Hops 'n' Harvest Festival at Kent Life - YouTube
• Hops Plants Vines Stock Photos and Images - Alamy
• Kent Hop-Tokens
• Oasts in Kent and East Sussex, Part I
• Oasts in Kent and East Sussex, Part II

Houses

• Medieval Houses

Immigrants

• Interpretations of the Influence of the Immigrant Population in Kent in the Sixteenth and
• Seventeenth Centuries
• The Weald and Its Refugee Annals

Inventories

• Inventories in the Tutor Era

Iron Making

• Iron Manufacture in Tonbridge Parish, with special reference to Barden furnace 1552-1771

Landowners - (Look under People for more lists)

• Lists of Kent's land owners & tenants during the 1840's, by parish
• List of Kent's land owners in 1664 (Searchable)
• List of Kent's Landowners in 1334/35 and the index

• Works of Henry Howard & Sir Thomas Wyatt

• Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature, at Luminarium.
• The Voice of the Shuttle links page - search on "Renaissance". Highly recommended! .
• Renaissance Literature Links by Jack Lynch.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, includes renaissance resources, educational material, and other goodies.
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare at MIT.
• Shakespeare's Plays in their original draft spellings, from Internet Shakespeare Editions.
• A Shakespearian Grammar by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1879).
• The Shakespeare Resource Center edited by J. M. Pressley.
• Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, electronic editions at the University of Virginia.
• Shakespeare's Stories, at Legends.
• King Lear, the complete text with Quarto and Folio variations and linked annotations, from Dr. Larry A. Brown at David Lipscomb University.
• Elizabethan Authors: Texts, Resources, and Authorship Studies, a collection of drama, satire, poetry and fiction, with glossaries and notes; a collaborative effort by Robert Brazil & Barboura Flues.
• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, part of the Perseus Project at Tufts University.
• The Edmund Spenser Home Page, edited by Richard Bear.
• Renascence Editions, An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799. [Membership required.]
• The English School-maister by Edmund Coote (1596).
• The Philological Museum, an amazing collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century hypertexts in Latin and English, from Dana F. Sutton at the University of California, Irvine.
• The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, the complete text, with Notes and Commentary by Dr. Larry A. Brown, professor of theater, Nashville, Tennessee.
• Thomas Nashe, R. Lamb's site with criticism, works, timeline, patrons, and other good stuff.
• Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660 by David J. Kathman.
• Elizabethan Authors features period texts in original and modern spelling, plus essays and other resources.

Manners

• Manners and Courtesy Through the Ages,

Marriage

• The (Tutor Era) Married Persons Guide To Sex

Markets - see commerce

• The Public Markets of some north-west Kent Towns 1700-1850
• Population and Family Structure in the sixteenth-century Weald
• Factors in Market Establishment in medieval England: The Evidence from Kent 1086-1350

Medicine

• Popular Medicine in the Tutor Era

Music (see videos)

• The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft, from Greg Lindahl.
• Sixteenth Century Ballads and A Short Note on Sixteenth Century Child Ballads, also from Greg Lindahl.
• Playford's The Dancing Master Or, plain and easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, with the Tune to each Dance. The HTML version by Jeff Lee.
• A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments at Iowa State University, and a collection of links to Early Music Resources on the Web.
• Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela at Appalachian State University.
• The Schoole of Musicke by Thomas Robinson, 1603. An HTML version by Jeff Lee.
• The First Book of English Madrigals by John Wilbye (1598). Also from Jeff Lee.
• English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800. Samuel Pepys' ballad collection, at the University of Santa Barbara, with facsimile images, transcriptions, and notes.
• List of Music Facsimile Books
• Instrument Guide to period music from the Night Watch, with images and audio files. New !

Navy

• The Royal Navy: In a Series of Illustrations, Lithographed (eBook 1881)

Oyster Fishing

• Oyster Fisheries on the North Kent Coast

Pigs

• Swine, Salt and Seafood: a Case Study of Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Settlement in
  • North-East Kent

Poor Laws

• The 1832 Poor Law Commission’s Answers to Rural Queries. Goudhurst: a Case Study of
• a Wealden Parish
• Selling: a Case Study in Institutional Relief under the Old Poor Law, 1750-1835

Population

• The population of Victorian and Edwardian Kent
• Population and Family Structure in the sixteenth-century Weald

Pottery

• An Early Tudor Kiln at Hareplain, Biddenden

Railways (See also Steam Transportation)

• The Construction of the Sevenoaks Railway Tunnel 1863-68
• Railways and the Community: the Kentish Evidence
• History of Allhallows-on-Sea Station
• History of Ashford Station
• History of Canterbury Staions
• History of Chatham Station
• History of Foord Viaduct
• History of Kent Railways
• History of Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
• History of London and Greenwich Railway
• History of London and Croydon Railway
• History of London and Brighton Railway
• History of South Eastern Railway
• History of East Kent Railway
• History of London Chatham and Dover Railway
• History of the Southern Railway
• History of Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

Rope Making - See Dockyards

• Rope Making at Chatham during the early Nineteenth Century

Rent

• Lists of Kent's Land owners & tenants during the 1840's, by parish
• Rent and Taxes in Yalding 1336
• Yalding Labour Service for serfs - Yalding 1336
• Yalding Rents - for free villagers 1336

Roads

• The Road Services of Kent in the Nineteenth Century
• The Sandwich to Dover Turnpike, 1833-1874

Sanitation

• Sanitary Conditions in Medieval Towns

Schools & Education

• Maidstone Grammar School 1833-8
• Education 1480-1660
• Reconstructing Literary Life in the Provinces with special reference to the Elizabethan Gentry of Kent
• Education in the Middle Ages

Shipwrecks

• The Wreck of the S.S. Castor (1870—1894) and the Recovery of Part of the Ship’s Cargo
• The Princess Alice Disaster

Social Hierarchy

• The structure of class aspirations 1480-1660

Swing

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

Trades & Tradesmen

• Old Occupations
• Kentish Tradesmen in the Early Nineteenth Century
• Oldest Shop in England
• Medieval Trade & Industry

Tiles

• Kentish Rag and other Kent building stones.
• The Development of Roof-Tiling and Tile-Making on some mid-Kent Manors of Christ
• Church Priory in the thirteenth and fourteenth Centuries

Vineyards

• Some Modern Vineyards And Breweries
• The Vineyards of Northfleet and Teynham in the Thirteenth Century