Join our team: 2 roles available: Fundraising & Development Manager and Engagement Officer - Heritage Lab Ramsgate

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Salt and Stone - Writers' Workshops - Sandwich Kent Would you like to co-create a ballad celebrating life on the Kent coast? Digital Drama is running a course of 3 free writers’ workshops to be he

In Deal or Sandwich? Hope to see you there! www.sandwichkent.co.uk/events/salt-...

No Name Street

Just tell me where you are and I'll come and meet you. What could possibly go wrong?

Bridging Technology and Tradition Through University Businesss Collaboration Canterbury Christ Church University pioneers digital heritage collaborationStanding on the Kent coastline, it’s easy to imagine the centuries of stories carried through towns like Broadstairs, Ramsgat...

With apologies for the spoilers - here are some of the ways we are working with new partners, building on our Let's do the Time Walk Again! project (funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund). about.konfer.online/post/bridge-...

Archive Alive Creative Workshop Join us at a free workshop to co-create a modern ballad celebrating life on the Kent coast.

Hoping to see some of our CCCU community at this free workshop. It's archives, it's creative writing and drama. And you don't even need experience in either - because that's what we're there for! students.canterbury.ac.uk/events/archi...

Quite right too!

We haven't officially 'left' the other place. But we're not there much these days.

Postcard of Deal and Sandwich

A new collaboration for KMO - we're going to be working with Digital Drama on their Salt and Stone project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Contact them through the link below if you are interested in volunteering in Sandwich or Deal area. www.digitaldrama.org/project/salt...

Deal, 19th century

Some wonderful photos are being digitized as part of the National Heritage Lottery Funded project 'Let's Do the Time Walk Again!' I wonder who the guy in the white trousers is?
Deal Museum, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

Dover & The Zeebrugge Raid Exploring Dover's leading role in the daring Zeebrugge Raid on St George's Day 1918

Digital exhibition by CCCU Heritage MA student Edd Hodsdon 2storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e38798f7c4cc461a...

April is the Cruellest Month vC [ Hellebore and Mimosa 2025 There’s something magical about writing. Particularly if you don’t believe you are a writer. Is that really a thing, you are a painter if you paint, you a…

Thoughts from KMO artist Lisa Hawkins lisahawkinsfineart.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/a...

This is to promote a talk by our former colleague at CCCU, Dr John Bulaitis. So now he HAS to write something for KMO, isn't that how it works? www.cantcommsoc.co.uk/event/the-sw...

No orchards left in the Garden of England are the lyrics of a song my son wrote, let's hope it's not true. www.wincheaporchards.org

Thank you for coming to our curator's talk yesterday at CCCU! We do indeed offer free student membership and host a series of free online talks each month! Find out more at www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/join

Kent Archaeological Society Founded in 1857 to promote advances in knowledge of Kent’s past by fieldwork, documentary research and publication.

Great talk yesterday by curator Andy Ward from Kent Archaeological Society. And they offer FREE student membership - what's not to like? @kentarchsoc.bsky.social www.kentarchaeology.org.uk

Postcard of Deal Promenade, Kent, 1910. Deal Museum Collection. Scanned as part of the National Lottery Heritage Funded Project 'Let's Do the Time Walk Again' in association with Canterbury Christ Church University.

We've been asked if anyone knows of creative writing groups in Sandwich or Deal. Please get in touch if that's you!

We are updating our platform. Apologies for broken links as we move our images over.

Cover slide for talk on Kent and the Dickens Industry.

'The audience with the greatest sense of humour, certainly is Dover.' Dickens, 1861.

What a lovely group of people - thank you to the Shepherdswell & Coldred History Society for proving Dickens right this evening!

Lady Loretta Commemoration 2026 - Polycarp’s Bones: talk by James Harpur Polycarp’s Bones: the story of Christian pilgrimage and the cult of relics with scholar and poet, James Harpur. Includes music and wine.

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commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?... All this 'behind the scenes' work will ultimately feed into each museum's website. Watch this space...

Deal promenade

They've been categorizing, inventorizing and now digitizing. The first postcard has been uploaded for the National Lottery Heritage Funded project Let's Do The Time Walk Again. Congratulations, Deal Museum!

These are the ones our author was working from, but google search brings up others: www.kent-maps.online//16c/16c-ard...

Medway map 1896.

And speaking of rivers...

Shout-out to anyone in the Medway!

Good spot! But other sources give 14 Feb, with the body being found the next day.

Guidance for contributors to the KAS Magazine and eNewsletter — Kent Archaeological Society The Kent Archaeological Society welcome short articles from professional and amateur archaeologists, commercial organisations and local societies, academics, research students, local historians and al...

Do you have something interesting to share about the History and Archaeology of the ancient county of Kent, then please reach out to us to submit to our Spring KAS magazine!

The deadline for receiving copy is 27th February 2026.

Guidance for contributions below:

St Peter's Place, Canterbury in the floods of 1909

Cars in St Peter's Place, Canterbury. Photography by Judyta Socha and Megan Yeoman.

The same, but not the same. St Peter's Place in Canterbury 1909 v 2022.

Image of Fort House (now Bleak House) in Broadstairs. By permission of the Dickens House Museum.

In case you hadn't guessed, we're doing an inventory of our images at the moment. Here's another one of Broadstairs - the earliest known image of Fort [Bleak] House, no less!

Shop signs: The Thirty-Nine Steps and Charles Dickens

Shy, retiring Broadstairs - never a place to boast about its literary associations.

There is just over a month until the ARG Fieldwork Forum taking place on Saturday 21st March 2026 at Lenham Community Centre. Join us for a practical guide to archaeological field recording! Tickets cost £15.00 for non-members and £10.00 for members: members.kentarchaeology.org.uk/events 🏺

How Leeds Royal Charter was saved from becoming lampshade 1950s owner of unique document had no idea of its significance and nearly turned it into furnishing.

The 17th Century document that nearly became a lampshade

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