Author: J. M. RussellPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The history of Maidstone
A Bibliography of British Municipal History
Author: Charles GrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The History of Maidstone
Author: Peter ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maidstone (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Presents a history of Maidstone. The book investigates the development of the town from pre-Roman times to the late 20th-century and covers early growth to enhanced commmunal consciousness in the late Middle Ages. It is intended for local people or those with an interest in local history.
Kent
Author: James M. GibsonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802087263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Records of Early English Drama (REED) series aims to establish the context for the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries by examining the historical manuscripts that provide external evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until Puritan legislation closed the London theatres in 1642. REED's sixteenth collection, Kent: Diocese of Canterbury contains the evidence of dramatic, musical, and ceremonial activity in the city of Canterbury and in the towns and parishes of the diocese of Canterbury, taken from the borough records, parish records, civil and ecclesiastical court records, and from personal papers such as wills, diaries, and letters. This collection includes over 4,000 payments to travelling players from the earliest recorded payment in 1272, when the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, paid for entertainment on the feast day of St Thomas Becket, to the last recorded payment in 1641 in Puritan Canterbury for players not to play. It also features the Canterbury marching watch with pageants, including the pageant of St Thomas Becket; the New Romney passion play; numerous visits of nobility and royalty to Faversham, Canterbury, and Dover, being the main stops along Watling Street between London and the Continent; the activities of waits, drummers, and other civic musicians in the ancient towns and cities of Kent; and extensive evidence from court cases, borough ordinances, and chamberlains' payments of the suppression of dramatic activity during the Puritan years of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As with all the REED volumes, Kent Diocese of Canterbury is transcribed from the original sources, edited, and presented with explanatory notes, translations, and a general introduction. The resulting volume forms the largest collections thus far in the REED series.
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
Author: Edward HastedPublisher:
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Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County
Author: Sussex Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
Author: The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer
Author: Suffragettes of Kent
Author: Jennifer GodfreyPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526723522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A thought-provoking insight into the stories of hope, determination, courage and sacrifice of those involved in the women’s suffrage movement in Kent. Discover an untold story of a young working-class Kent maid involved in the suffrage movement. See photographs of Ethel and learn of her arrest and imprisonment in March 1912 for participating in the window-smashing militant action. The 1908 Women’s Freedom League and the 1913 Women’s Social and Political Union tours of Kent are retraced, their messages and the Kent inhabitants’ reactions explored. Details are included of Kent’s involvement in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies’ mass pilgrimage from all parts of the country to London in 1913. Revealing the part Maidstone Gaol played in forcible feeding of suffragette prisoners the book includes an account written by the gaol’s lead medical man. The many links between national suffrage movement leaders and pioneers and Kent are included in accounts of the visits, speeches and actions of Charlotte Despard, Emmeline Pankhurst, Annie Kenney, Emily Wilding Davison and Millicent Fawcett. Discover who was imprisoned in Maidstone Gaol, which pioneer was stoned by a Kent audience during her speech, who interrupted a Kent Liberal meeting in Tunbridge Wells, which woman challenged their Kent audience to do more for the cause and who was much celebrated on her visit to a Kent seaside town. “Vivid accounts of the abuse of and hardships experienced by the suffragette movement in the county of Kent. One of the most moving histories of the movement in Pen and Sword’s brilliant series.” —Books Monthly
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