Hannah Jennison, Alfie Forsyth and Jonathan Baker introduce te devastating WW2 Doodlebug raids in Kent.

Michelle Crowther traces the often turbulent life and work of the author, Jessie May Aldington.

The Hawkhurst Gang’s 1740s smuggling empire turned the Kent–Sussex border into a zone of intimidation, torture, and open gunfights that resembled civil war. Under-resourced revenue officers and resistance to military policing let the gang operate like a private army until villages such as Goudhurst and Cranbrook formed militias, spurred by government bounties. Community violence, manhunts, and trials ended the cartel’s power and later fed local commemoration of victory over the smugglers.

Ez Swanström and Michelle Crowther introduce feminist and social reformer, Josephine Butler's 1870 Kent campaign visit.

Michelle Crowther introduces the Kent based work of Darling Buds of May author, Herbert Ernest Bates.

Charles Carrick built a modest but ambitious career in Victorian Canterbury as a writing master, private tutor, poet, and maker of intricate marquetry and mosaic furniture. His teaching at Kent House Academy and his subscriber-focused poetry and craftwork reveal how middle-class education, local patronage, and cultural display shaped status and livelihood in a changing 19th-century city.

Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930, becoming an international celebrity. In 1941 she was killed when her plane crashed in Herne Bay, but the exact cause of the accident has never been established.

Henry Gardiner Adams was born in the same year as Dickens and is now remembered largely for his connection to the famous author. But Adams was himself a poet and editor, with collaborators including the artist Richard Dadd.

Rose Storkey traces the events surrounding sometime Dover resident the infamous Adelaide Bartlett.

Due to a Death was written by Mary Kelly after a visit to Kent

D.H. Lawrence’s Kent stays at Edward Garnett’s house at Crockham Hill and later at Kingsgate and Margate shaped his writing and sharpened his sense of belonging and alienation. Letters and recollections link specific places in the Weald and on the Thanet coast to poems and stories drafted or revised amid seaside tourism, strained relationships, and literary friendships.

Julian Symons was a poet and a prolific author of both history and crime fiction. He lived in Kent for between 1950 and 1955, and several of his novels are set at least partly in the county.