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Find your own answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet... http://kent-maps.online #JSTORLABS #CCCU #EnglishCreates
In 1901 Mabel Ryall was Junior Assistant at #Folkestone public #library. In 1926 the library decided to appoint a female assistant of 25-35 years of age, with a starting salary of £150 going up by £10 pa. Ryall was appointed, but left on her marriage in 1928. Does anyone in #Folkestone know more?
Interesting to learn that @kentarchives.bsky.social Kent Archives have been cataloguing records relating to Maidstone and Canterbury prisons. We have entries on both at KMO - see www.kent-maps.online/19c/19c-conv... for Ben Bethell's work on Maidstone Convict Prison.
Maidstone Convict Prison
Maidstone convict prison, opened in 1909 beside the town’s older jail, became a distinctive English penal site for first-offence star class prisoners serving long sentences. Its concentration of white...
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National Year of Reading Talk on Susie Nethersole, Kent's forgotten rural writer, done and dusted! Now for the journal article!
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Trailing Round With Dickens: An Enthusiast’s Guide To Broadstairs — The Dickens Society
This post is contributed by Carolyn Oulton, Professor of Victorian Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University. Carolyn's recent publications include Down from London: Seaside Reading in the Rai...
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@profserious.bsky.social is getting serious about Arts & Humanities. But how serious is serious? A 🧵part 1/3 1) How many of these questions could/should be asked of all subjects? (Me: all). 2) Where are universities' actual costs for different subjects (research & teaching) in this assessment?
Whither the Arts and Humanities?
... arguments and adaptations
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Inaugural Maidstone LitFest Poetry Competition 2026 - deadline coming up! www.maidstonelitfest.org/poetrycomp2026
Poetry Competition 2026 | Maidstone LitFest
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Its #WordWednesday Today's Kentish word, taken from our online dictionary is Conjure vb,adj To be skilled in work; to be helpfull at work. "Yes, Peter. He is a very conjurable man. There beant (be not) a job on this farm that he can't do real good-like." The Dialect of Kent (c1950). pg 22
Dictionary of the Kentish dialect — Kent History & Archaeology
Compiled by Camilla Harley.
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A little bit of Ramsgate seaweed gets into the Thackray Museum, Yorkshire - it was a hot day and thanks to the electric fan, it's probably still there...
Congratulations to Mary Shannon! You can read more about Billy Waters on the KMO site of course... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sunday Feature - King of the Beggars - The Music of Billy Waters - BBC Sounds
Paterson Joseph honours the legacy of Billy Waters: Britain’s first popular Black musician
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BA Creative writing student, Helen Counsell, has written another beautiful and evocative piece about her childhood in Chatham in the 1970s - tupperware parties, Olga Korbutt, and the rag and bone man - what's not to like! www.kent-maps.online/built/dale-s...
Dale Street, Chatham
In this article Helen Counsell remembers her childhood living in Dale Street, Chatham.
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If you haven't tried it yet... www.canterbury.ac.uk/news/2025/di...
Discover Dickens’ Broadstairs this summer with new digital trail
Visitors looking for something to do in Kent this summer can explore Charles Dickens through a new digital trail developed by CCCU academics and partners.
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Congratulations to Creative Writing student Louise, on this blog about her experience at CCCU. www.canterbury.ac.uk/new-students...
My experience as a mature, neurodivergent, foundation year student
Louise Robey, Creative and Professional Writing student, shares their experience and tips for studying at CCCU.
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Poem by Johanna Caton, a Benedictine nun of Minster Abbey. amethystmagazine.org/2026/06/19/r... Caton,
Rocky Mountain – a poem by Johanna Caton O.S.B.
Rocky MountainNo possibility of reaching the topthat day—or ever. I was nothing to it. I sat in the car, but it was too softa shield against the unbearable, in-human god-thing.I sat looking up, up …
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Not only awarded a grant, but listed in the festival highlights to boot! See you at the Maison Dieu in Dover this November for the Being Human Festival? Details to follow. www.beinghumanfestival.org/news/2026-be...
Don’t forget! Tomorrow, 18th June at 7pm we’re joined by Dr Anne Sassin for our latest online talk. Lullingstone Castle 2022 community project Discover how geophysical survey and environmental archaeology revealed new insights into the medieval manor, moated site development, and historic gardens.
KAS Online Talk: Lullingstone Castle 2022 community project
This talk will discuss the results of the 2022 community archaeology project at Lullingstone Castle, undertaken as part of the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme. It will cover how geophysical survey and environmental archaeology in particular were able to provide more insight into the early history of the original medieval manor house at Lullingstone and its development as a moated site, as well as the evolution of its historic gardens in the late post medieval period.
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A great opportunity if you're looking for a creative residency! www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/news/apply-n...
Apply Now: Prospect Cottage Artist Residencies 2026-27 - Creative Folkestone
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What the Dickens! Bleak House was far from bleak this weekend at the Broadstairs Dickens Festival 2026
"They're launching a new audio trail, don't you know!"
The "In Broadstairs with Dickens" audio trail is launched
Bleak House was looking festive at the 2026 Dickens Festival
Didn't we have a love-r-ly time, the day we went to Broadstairs! Thank you to Elizabeth as Bleak House for a spectacular garden party
This gorgeous poster was designed by Heather Murdoch. She's open to work, so we can put you in touch if you have a design need... After you've been to the festival, of course.
The Canterbury Commemoration Society summer party - it's a 'come as you are' affair. www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/event/the-ce...
