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Walks in to History - Kent
Twenty circular walks exploring different aspects of Kent's historical past. Includes routes at Canterbury, Upnor, Leeds Castle, Aldington and Penshurst. With maps and photographs.
Price: £6.79
Kent Shipwrecks
The Kent coast has had it's fair share of shipwrecks. Here local author and journalist, Alan Bignell tells the stories behind the most spectacular and unusual ones. Illustrated.
A5 (softcover) 128 pages
Price: £6.75
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Captain Swing
The year is 1830. A state of anarchy terrorises Sussex and Kent.
Panic-stricken landowners cower behind bolted doors.
Cottagers tremble for their lives as farm machinery is smashed to smithereens.
Petrified farmers receive blood-chilling, anonymous letters, threatening to roast them alive in their beds.
The search is on for the bandit leader Captain Swing Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Price: £6.79
A Chronicle of the Century - Volume One 1900 - 1924
Kent - A Chronicle of the Century, a series of four books on the history of Kent in the 20th century, which are available individually or in an attractive boxed set with gold lettering. Written in Bob Ogleys inimitable style with events of the past placed alongside scores of evocative illustrations, it tells the story of the county year by year.
Price: £11.04
A Chronicle of the Century - Volume Two 1925 - 1949
From those magnificent men in their flying machines to fashions of the day, from political uheavals to sporting victories, from chilling disasters to artistic triumphs, from archaeological discoveries to engineering achievements here is the story of the century in 800 lively, well presented pages.
Price: £9.34
A Chronicle of the Century - Volume Three 1950 - 1974
No county in England has a more dramatic story to tell than Kent. In the front line throughout two world wars, it is a county of soldiers, scientists, designers, engineers and politicians who have not only helped to reinvent our world but led the march to freedom.
Price: £9.34
A Chronicle of the Century - Volume Four 1975 - 1999
Volume Four 1975 - 1999 take's us up to the introduction of communication satellites, the birth of the Internet and the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
Price: £11.04
Kent: 1800 - 1899
Bob Ogley's new book on 19th-century Kent has been written and published by popular demand. Influenced by the Napoleonic Wars, the industrial revolution, the introduction of steam ships and the inauguration of universal schooling, the years between 1800 and 1900 saw more rapid and remarkable changes in Kent than any preceding period.
Price: £11.89
What county can possible match Kent for its impressive array of literary writers and historical importance to the UK. They are led by Charles Dickens of Gads Hill, Higham, Charles Darwin of Downe, Richard Barham of Snargate and Somerset Maugham of Whitstable. Jane Austen travelled extensively in Kent, J.M.W.Turner painted in Margate, Deal and other places, Samuel Palmer at Shoreham and William Morris lived at Bexleyheath.
Kent has always played an important roll in the defence of the Country and during WW2, was no exception.....Stories of the fighter pilots at Biggin Hill during the early months in 1940 fighting in the Battle of Britain, the thousands of Doodle Bug Rockets that fell on Kents "Bomb Alley".
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