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Establishment of Chatham Dockyard. Battle against the Spanish Armada. Industry includes textiles and iron production.
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Arden of Faversham
Arden of Faversham
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On St. Valentine’s day 1551 a grizzly site was found in the grounds of Faversham abbey - the landowner Thomas Arden lay dead in the snow, his wife’s affair with the tailor Mosby having taken a murderous turn.
Elizabeth Barton
Elizabeth Barton
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The ‘Holy Maid of Kent’, Elizabeth Barton, prophesized that Henry VIII would die if he were to marry Anne Boleyn.
John Lyly
John Lyly
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Playwright, author and courtier, John Lyly was a Kentishman famed for his euphuistic writing.
Sheppey at War
Sheppey at War
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In 1588 concerns about the Spanish Armada approaching London via the Kent coast caused the Crown to invest in fortifications at Queenborough Castle and Minster.
Spanish Armada
Spanish Armada
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With invasion threatening, Kent mobilised its forces, but did it leave the coastal town of Margate unprotected?
Leonard and Thomas Digges
Leonard and Thomas Digges
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Father and son who were learned mathematicians in Kent in the sixteenth century.