KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY


Cover of Snodland and Cementopolis
Snodland and ‘Cementopolis’,
1841-1881
by Andrew Ashbee
 
 
‘Cementopolis’ is a word coined by Victorian newspaper writers to describe the group of industrial workings which had grown up on the banks of the Medway, especially in the four parishes of Burham, Halling, Snodland and Wouldham. Some of the largest lime and cement factories in the country were developed here in what had hitherto been a predominantly rural area and their activities caused some amazement for visitors expecting the delights of the ‘Garden of England’..

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Cover of new book on Hadlow Hadlow:  Life, Land and People in a Wealden Parish, 1460 - 1600   A hitherto unknown survey of Hadlow manor in 1460 turned up out of the blue in 2002, and this book, edited by Joan Thirsk and four co-authors, describes what it tells us about farms, getting a living, lords and their management of the manor, along with the Latin text and an English translation.   It is full of maps, plans, and illustrations.

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To purchase a printed version of the book with index please email librarian@kentarchaeology.org.uk for details

Kent Hundred Rolls 1274-5
KENT HUNDRED ROLLS   The Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274-5, preserved in the National Archives, provide a mine of information for local historians. Many were printed by the Record Commission in the early nineteenth century, but the two bulky volumes are only to be found in major libraries and the
rolls are printed in abbreviated Latin. This new website edition by the Kent Archaeological Society comprises the complete rolls for Kent, in the original Latin and in an English translation by Dr Bridgett Jones.  

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Kent Lay Subsidy front cover KENT LAY SUBSIDY 1334/5

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The Kilwardby
                Survey of the Archbishop's Manors in South East England,
                1273-4
THE KILWARDBY SURVEY OF THE ARCHBISHOP’S MANORS IN SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND, 1273-4

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William I Coins struck at Kent
                Mints

A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE COINS OF WILLIAM I STRUCK AT THE KENT MINTS AND KNOWN  TO EXIST IN APRIL 2007
This catalogue may be read in conjunction with ‘The Coinage of William I in Kent’, by the same author, in Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxviii (2008), 59-74 (to be published July 2008)
 
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THE WARDENS OF THE TOWN LANDS OF TONBRIDGE,
                ACCOUNT BOOK, 1575 – 1760
THE WARDENS OF THE TOWN LANDS OF TONBRIDGE, THE ACCOUNT BOOK, 1575 - 1760

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For the
                  Good of This Town: The Jurats of Maidstone 1549-1660 -
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FOR THE GOOD OF THIS TOWN: THE JURATS OF MAIDSTONE 1549 - 1660.  Judy Buckley researched the Maidstone oligarchy for her MA by Research at the University of Greenwich in 2008, and has based this book on her dissertation. It describes the origins, occupations, wealth and ideology of the jurats chosen from the granting of Maidstone's first charter until the Restoration. A wealth of new material from original sources will make this a useful book for urban, local and family historians.

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