Using original diary entries Ivana Nika traces the journey of Anne Walker and Anne Lister through Kent en route for the continent in 1834.

All Saints parish church at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey reveals late medieval and early modern tensions between parish identity and preferred burial at Minster’s SS Mary and Sexburga. Wills from c.1460–1559 show Eastchurch parishioners, including the Cheney network, directing burials and major devotional bequests toward Minster while leaving Eastchurch mainly funds for lights, vestments, and fabric repairs.

Paul Nash’s Dymchurch paintings turn the sea wall into a modern monument that stages an elemental struggle between sea and land while replaying the trauma of the First World War. Biographical detail, visual analysis, and later reinterpretations connect his increasingly abstract and surreal coastal imagery to ideas of defense, memory, and the fragile permanence of reclaimed shorelines under climate change.

Dr Ruth Heholt introduces Kent born and raised author Catherine Crowe whose eclectic work has been linked with spirits and smugglers.

Alice and Michelle trace Kent connections in the life and work of poet, author and critic, Edmund Blunden.

Brogdale Farm near Faversham preserves the National Fruit Collections as a living archive of more than 4,000 fruit varieties and their genetic diversity. Tudor-era orchard building, twentieth-century supermarket standardisation, and modern scientific curation explain why grafted heritage cultivars matter for food security, research, and cultural memory.

Prof. Linden West discusses the 'important, complex and contested' 100 year history (1890 - 1989) of the Kent mines and miners.

Angela Burdett-Coutts was a wealthy philanthropist and had close ties with figures including Dickens and the Duke of Wellington. She stayed in Kent on various occasions and donated a lifeboat to Margat.

Ann Radcliffe’s 1797 journey through Kent recasts familiar towns and river landscapes in the heightened language of Gothic and Romantic description. Journal extracts trace her route from Gravesend and Rochester to Canterbury and the coast, showing how lived travel and literary style combine to shape place. The posthumous publication of these notes also clarifies her later-life retreat from authorship and the thin biographical record around her.

Israel Zangwill’s holidays and working visits to the Kent coast shaped his sharp-edged observations of seaside towns and their leisure cultures. Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs, and Dover appear through his journalism and letters as places where modern tourism, class display, and Jewish public identity intersect.

Simone Blandford discusses the Kent childhood experience and influence of the author Ursula Askham Fanthorpe.

The destruction of World War II came to Canterbury in the night of 1 June 1942, the worst of a series of air raids, when high explosive and incendiary bombs rained down on the old city.