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Exhibition ‘Local Stories: Memories of Hopping around Brook and Wye, Kent’

Brook Rural Museum has partnered with the University of Kent Special Collections & Archives to bring you this new exhibition, showcasing memories and stories about the hop industry around Wye in the 20th century, collected from oral history interviews with local people. Supported by Association of Independent Museums grant funded by The National Lottery Heritage […]

Report from the 2025 Nightingale Lecture: The Tithe War in England and Wales 1881-1936

The below is a summary of Dr John Bulaitis’ talk ‘The Tithe War in England and Wales 1881-1936’, given at the Michael Nightingale lecture on 24 September 2024, and is adapted from Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh’s post on the Centre for Kent History and Heritage blog: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/the-tithe-war-kent-and-england/ John Bulaitis began his talk by thanking the many […]

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