- 204 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Tales of Forgotten Kent is a collection of twenty-two essays about the people and events that have largely been neglected by historians, but remain an integral part of Kent's rich tapestry, featuring the eccentric, unusual and often overlooked tales buried within the garden of England.
Who would have thought that the cradle of British aviation was the unfashionable Isle of Sheppey, home to Britain's first licensed pilots and the world's first aircraft manufacturers; or that the greatest technological change in printing – computer typesetting – occurred in the small town of Westerham; and that the poet who wrote the first sonnet was not actually Shakespeare but Sir Thomas Wyatt of Allington Castle, lover of Anne Boleyn; or that Britain's oldest school is The King's School, Canterbury, whose alumni includes the controversial playwright Christopher Marlowe, and still plays host to ghostly legends.
Read on to unearth more of Kent's best kept secrets and keep its forgotten tales alive.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Selling’s Unique Mesolithic Past, 5,000 BC
- 2 The Oldest School In Britain, AD 597
- 3 The Legend of St Mildred of Minster-in-Thanet, AD 670
- 4 Hempsted Park, Wealden: Home to a World-Famous School, 1086
- 5 Cardinal Kempe’s Wye Legacy, 1431
- 6 Jack Cade, Captain of Kent, 1450
- 7 The Tokes of Godinton, 1496
- 8 Father of the English Sonnet: Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503
- 9 Princess Pocahontas: A Gravesend Enigma, 1617
- 10 The Scandal of the Dering Roll, 1629
- 11 Richard Lovelace: The Cavalier Poet, 1642
- 12 The Father of Electricity and his Ecclesiastical Helper, 1729
- 13 The Ingoldsby Legends, 1837
- 14 Lord Harris: The Father of Kent Cricket, 1870
- 15 Tragic Cuthbert: Kent’s Greatest Sporting Icon, 1872
- 16 Sir Charles Igglesden: Sauntering Through Kent, 1899
- 17 The Isle of Sheppey: Cradle of British Aviation, 1909
- 18 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Count Zborowski, 1920
- 19 H.E. Bates and The Darling Buds of May, 1930
- 20 The Tithe Rebellion, 1935
- 21 The Romanovs in Kent, 1949
- 22 Decline and Fall of a Flawed Genius in the Forgotten Art of Printing, 1950