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Abutilon Kentish Belle
Acol
Adams, Jill
Adams, William
Admiral Hosier’s Ghost
Aethelberht I, King of Kent
Agutter, Jenny
Airship-plane, failed experiment
Air Union Blériot 155 crashes
Aitken, Jonathan, perjury trial of
Al-Din Qajar, Naser, Shah of Persia
Ale sop
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
Alexander II, King of Scotland
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
Alfred, Prince, Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
Alfred the Great, King of England
Allectus coin, The
All Fours
Allington Castle
Allison, Malcolm
Ambler, Eric
Amherst, Jeffery, 1st Baron Amherst
Ancients, The
Andersen, Hans-Christian
Andrews, Julie
‘Angels One Five’
Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
Anne of Cleves, Queen of England
Applegarth, Augustus
Archbishop of Canterbury, The
Archbishop’s Palace, Charing
Archbishop’s Palace, Maidstone
Archer, Jeffrey
Arden of Faversham, murder of
Armistead, Elizabeth
Arnold, Andrea
Arnold, Matthew
Arsenal Football Club
Asher-Smith, Dina
Ashes, The
Ashford retail park murder
Ashford tank, The
Astley, Jacob, 1st Baron Astley of Reading
Astor, Nancy, Viscountess Astor
Astor, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor
Augusta, Princess
Austen, Jane
Austen, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Francis
Auto Stacker debacle
Aveling, Thomas
Aveling & Porter
Aylesford-Swarling culture
Backley, Steve
Badminton
Bacon, Sir Nicholas
Baden Powell, Robert, Lieutenant-General, 1st Baron Baden Powell
Baedeker Blitz, The
Bagnold, Enid
Bagnold, Ralph
Baird, John Logie
Baker, Ginger
Baker, Tom
Ball, John
Bampton, Debbie
Band of Brothers, The
Bank holidays
Banks, Sir Edward
Banks, Sir John
Banks, Sir Joseph
Bar billiards
Barham Court, Teston
Barkworth, Peter
Bartley, John
Barton, Elizabeth
Barton, Warren
Bartram, Sam
Bat and trap
Bates, HE
Bathing machines
Battle of Britain, The
Battle of Britain Memorial
Bayes, Thomas
Bayham Hall
Bayham Old Abbey
Bayley, Laura
Bazball Test, The
Beachborough Manor
Beale, Bobby
Beaney House of Art & Knowledge
Beardmore, William, 1st Baron Invernairn
Beast of Tunbridge Wells, The
Beatles, The
Beauty of Kent
Beauty Show
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beck, Jeff
Becket, Thomas, assassination of
Beckett, Samuel
Bedgebury National Pinetum
Bedlam
Bedle, William
Beel, George
Behn, Aphra
Bell, John
Bell Inn revenue inspectors, The
Belmont House
Bennett, John
Bennett, Joseph
Benson, Sir Francis
Beresford, William, General, 1st Viscount Beresford
Berkeley, Ballard
Berry, Chuck
Best, George
Bethersden marble
Betjeman, Sir John
Bevan, Aneurin
Bewl Water
Biddenden Maids, The
Biddenden Vineyards
Big Cat Sanctuary
Biggin Hill
Biggin Hill Meteor crashes, The
Bird’s-eye views
Blackfriars
Blackheath Football Club
Blackheath Hockey Club
Blackwall Tunnel
Blackwood, Algernon
Blake, Sir Peter
Blake, Sir Quentin
Blake, William
Blaxland, Gregory
Bleak House
Blethyn, Brenda
Bligh, Vice-Admiral William
Bloom, Orlando
Blue Bell Hill ghost, The
Bluebeard the Hermit
Bluewater
Blyth, Harry
Blythe, Colin
Blyton, Enid
Bolan, Marc
Boleyn, Queen Anne of England
Boleyn, Thomas, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
Bomb Alley
Bonham Carter, Helena
Borstal
Borton, Arthur
Bossenden Wood, The Battle of
Botany Bay
Botany Bay, Sha La La
Botany Bay, The Battle of
Boucher, Joan
Boughton Monchelsea Place
Boughton Place
Bouncing Bomb, The
Bourne, Lieutenant-Colonel Frank
Bourne Place
Bowie, David
Box, Betty E
Boxley Abbey miracle, The
Boxley Manor
Boy George
Boys, Sir John
Brabazon of Tara, 1st Baron
Bradbourne House
Bradley the Seal
Bradman, Sir Donald
Braithwaite, Dame Lilian
Brand, Jo
Brando, Marlon
Brands Hatch
Brangelina
Branson, Sir Richard
Bray, Lieutenant Gabriel
Brenchley, Julius
Brickearth
Bride, Harold
Brides in the Bath Murders, The
Bridges, Robert
Brises, The
Britain, The Battle of
British aircraft industry, birth of
British military aviation, birth of
Brogdale Farm
Brook, Kelly
Brooke, Henry, 11th Baron Cobham
Broome Park
Brough, Arthur
Brown, Capability
Brown, Ford Madox
Brown, June
Browning, Robert
Bruce, Steve
Bruford, Bill
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Bruno, Frank
Buchan, Charlie
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
Buckingham’s Revolt
Buckmore Park Kart Circuit
Buffalo Bill
Buffs, The
Bulmer, Ken
Bunyard, George
Burbage, James
Burchett, Josiah
Burke, Frances, Countess of Clanricarde
Burke, James
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Burney, Fanny
Burnup, Cuthbert ‘Pinky’
Burton, Richard  & Taylor, Dame Elizabeth
Bush, Kate
Butler, Samuel
Butler, Steve
Byng, Admiral of the Fleet George, 1st Viscount Torrington
Byng’s ‘Tour into Kent’
Byron, Lord
Caesar, Julius
Caine, Sir Michael
Callaghan, James, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff
Callimachi, Princess Anne-Marie of Roumania
Camden, William
Camden Place
Campbell, Francis Maule
Campbell, Sir Malcolm
Canaletto
Canterbury, TSS
Canterbury Castle
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral, The Great Fire of
Canterbury City Walls
Canterbury College, Oxford
Canterbury Cross, The
Canterbury Martyrs, executions of
Canterbury Pace
Canterbury, The Sack of
Canterbury Scene, The
Canterbury Tale, A
Canterbury Tales, The
Canterbury tart
Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, The
Caratacus
Carew, Thomas
Carleton, Mary
Caroline of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Queen of the UK & Hanover
Carroll, Lewis
Carter, Elizabeth
Cartwright, Edmund
Catherine de Valois, Queen of England
Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England
Catherine of Braganza, Queen of England
Cavell, Edith
Cavendish, Lucy, Lady Frederick Cavendish
Caxton, William
Cazalet, Peter
Chagall Windows, The
Chain Home
Chalybeate Spring, The
Channel crossing, first by air
Channel crossing, first swimmer
Channel crossing, first by aeroplane
Channel crossing, first two-way
Channel Tunnel, Opening of the
Chapel Down
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaplin’s
Chapman, Graham
Chapman, Percy
Chapman, Tommy
Charge of the Light Brigade, The
Charing Heath flying bomb, The
Charles I, King of England
Charles II, King of England
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charlton Athletic Football Club
Charlton Horn Fair
Chartwell
Chase, Pauline
Chatham Chest, The
Chatham Historic Dockyard
Chatham prison riot, The
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chevallier Tayler’s ‘Kent Vs Lancashire at Canterbury’
Chevening House
Chichester, Sir Francis
Chiddingstone Castle
Childish, Billy
Chilham Castle
Chilston Park
Chislehurst Caves
Chocolate Cream Poisoner, The
Choong, Joe
Chopin, Frédéric
Christchurch Gateway
Christian IV, King of Denmark
Christie, Dame Agatha, Lady Mallowan
Churchill, Sir Winston
Cinque Ports, The
Claiborne, William
Clarence, The Duke of
Clark, George Foster
Clark, Kenneth, Baron Clark
Clary, Julian
Claudius, Emperor of Rome
Cleese, John
Cnut’s Kentish war crime
Cnut the Great, King of England
Coalmining, Kent’s worst accident
Coast Blockade, The
Cobbett, William
Cobham Hall
Cobham Mausoleum
Cocks Heath
Cohen, George
Coldrum Long Barrow
Coleman, Tim
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Colgate, William
Collins, Wilkie
Columbine, Private Herbert
Compton Bennett, Herbert
Congreve, Sir William
Conquest House
Conrad, Joseph
Constant, Hayne
Conway, Sir Martin
Cook, Commander James
Cooke, Sam
Cooling Castle
Cooper, Gladys
Cooper, Sir Henry
Cooper, Thomas Sidney
Corbett, Ronnie
Cornwallis, James, 4th Earl Cornwallis
Coronation chicken
Corry, Martin
Cotton, Sir Henry
Coward, Sir Noel
Cowdrey, Colin, Lord Cowdrey of Tonbridge
Coxwell, Henry
Crab & Winkle line, The
Cranbrook School of sports broadcasting
Cranmer, Archbishop Thomas
Crapper, Thomas
Craven, CS
Crawford, Michael
Cray Wanderers
Creag’
Cricket
‘Cricket: An Heroic Poem’
Croft, Annabel
Crompton, Richmal
Crook, Mackenzie
Croquet
Crossness Pumping Station
Crowe, Russell
Crowley, Aleister
Crystal Palace Football Club
Crystal Palace fire, The
Culpeper, Thomas
Cushing, Peter
Custom House, Ramsgate
Cutty Sark
Dahl, Roald
Danson Park
Dartboards
Dartford Crossing, The
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Jim
Davies, Sir Ray
Davington Priory
Davis, Steve
Davison, Emily
Davy, Sir Humphry, 1st Baronet
Day-Lewis, C.
Day-Lewis, Sir Daniel
Deadman’s Island
Deal Castle
Deal Man, The
Dean, Roger
De Badlesmere, Sir Bartholomew
De Bernières, Louis
De Bolotoff, Prince Serge
Dee, Jack
Deedes, William, Baron Deedes
Defoe, Daniel
De Gaulle, Charles, Brigadier-General, President of France
De Havilland, Walter
Dekker, Desmond
De la Mare, Walter
Delhi bomb outrage
Delicate Investigation, The
De Montfort, Simon
Denham, Maurice
Denny, Sandy
Deptford Bridge, The Battle of
Dering Manuscript, The
Dering Roll, The
Dering windows
De Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice
De Valois, Dame Ninette
Devil’s Kneading Trough, The
Dial-a-Ride Experiment, The
Diana, Princess of Wales
‘Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair’
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, John
Digges, Dudley
Digges, Thomas
Dillon, Ted
Disraeli, Benjamin
Ditchburn, Ted
Doddington Place
Dode Church
Doherty, Pete
Donne, John
Douce’s Manor
Dover Bronze Age boat
Dover Castle
Dover incident, The
Dover, Secret Treaty of
Dover, The Siege of
Dover sole
Dowding, Hugh, Air Chief Marshall, 1st Baron Dowding
Down House
Downs, The Battle of the
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Drake, Sir Francis
Dreamland
Du Beke, Anton
Ducat, Andy
Duchamp, Marcel
Duckham, Alexander
Duke cricket ball, The
Dukes Place
Du Maurier, Dame Daphne, Lady Browning
Dumpton Park
Dungeness Old Lighthouse
Dunkirk evacuation, see Operation Dynamo
Dunsany, Lord, 18th Baron of Dunsany
Durolevum
Durrant, Sergeant Thomas
Dylan, Bob
Dymchurch Martello Tower
Eadmer
Earl of Kent, The
Earthquake, Dover Straits 1382
Earthquake, Dover Straits 1580
Earthquake, Verviers
Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr
Eastgate House
East Indiamen, Wreck of the
East Kent flood
East Kent Railway
Eastry Court
East Sutton Park
Eastwell Manor
Ebbsfleet, The Battle of
Ecclestone, Bernie
Eden, Emily
Eden, George, 1st Earl of Auckland
Eden, William, 1st Baron Auckland
Edenbridge Bonfire Night
Edenbridge House
Edward I, King of England
Edward VI, King of England
Edward, the Black Prince
Egerton House
Eldridge, John
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England
Electrical current, discovery of
Elephant, King Henry III’s
Elham Murders
Eliot, George
Eliot, TS
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, et al
Elmley National Nature Reserve
Eltham Palace
Emin, Tracey
Emirates Air Line
Emmetts Garden
Engels, Friedrich
English
English Bowling Association
Ent, Sir George
Erasmus, Desiderius
Essinger, Anna
Evans, Dame Edith
Evelyn, John
Everest, Mount
Execution of John Bell
FA Cup final
Fagg, Arthur
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Fairlawne
Faith, Adam
Falstaff
Faraday, Michael
Farage, Nigel
Farmer, Suzan
Farouk I, King of Egypt
Farr, Florence
Fatboy Slim
Fatty Towers
Faunce-De Laune, Chapman Delaune
Faversham Abbey
Faversham, The Great Explosion of
Faversham Stone Chapel
Fenton, Lavinia
Fermor, Sir Patrick Leigh
Ferry, Bryan
Filmer, Sir Robert
Finchcocks
Finch-Hatton, George, 10th Earl of Winchilsea
Firth, Colin
Fisher, Kitty
Fleming, Ian
Flower of Kent
Fludd, Dr Robert
Flying machine, world’s first
Flynn, Errol
Foale, Dr Michael
Fogerty, Elsie
Folkestone Abbey, foundation of
Foolscap
Foots Cray Place
Ford, Billy
Ford, Ford Madox
Ford Palace
Fordwich
Fordwich Arms
Forster, EM
Forsyth, Sir Bruce
Forsyth, Frederick
Fort Amherst
Fossils
Foxgrove Road
Fox, Charles James
Fox-Pitt, William
Frampton, Pete
Francis, Duke of Alençon and of Anjou
Franklin, Benjamin
Franks Hall
Frederick V, King of Bohemia
Freedom
Freeman, AP ‘Tich’
French, Field Marshall John, 1st Earl of Ypres
French Invasion, The
French, Kate
Friars, The
Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia
Fright, Eric
Frognal House
Frost, Sir David
Fry, CB
Fry, Christopher
Fry, Elizabeth
Fuller, William
Funnell, William
Fyndon Gate
Gads Hill Place
Galba, Emperor of Rome
Gambon, Sir Michael
Gandhi, Mahatma
Garden of England
Garrick, David
Gavelkind
Geldof, Bob
General Steam Navigation Company
George III, King of England
Gibbons, Grinling
Gibbons, Orlando
Gibson, Wing Commander Guy
Gillingham bus disaster
Gillingham Park fire disaster
Giltrap, Gordon
Globe Theatre, the founding of
Goal Running
Godfrey, Sir Edmund, murder of
Godinton House
Godley, Kevin
Godmersham Park
Golden Arrow, The
Golden Hind, The
Golding, Sir William
Goodman, Len
Goodnestone House
Goodwin Sands
Goodwin Sands, Battle of the
Gore Court
Gosling, RC
Gotha bombing raid
Gower, David
Gower, John
Grace, WG
Graenwich
Grahame, Margot
Grain, Isle of
Grain Tower
Granada Theatres
Grand Hotel, The
Grange, The
Graveney Marsh, Battle of
Gravesend, great fire of
Gravesend shrimp
Gray, Stephen
Great Comp Garden
Great gale of 1624
Great Maytham Hall
Great Securitas Robbery
Great South England flood
Great storm of 1703
Great storm of 1897
Great storm of 1987
Greengrass, Paul
Greensand Way
Greenstreet, Sydney
Greenwich Armour
Greenwich Hospital, opening of
Greenwich Meridian
Greenwich Park
Grey, Lady Jane, Queen of England
Greyfriars Chapel & Gardens
Grip
Groombridge Place
Grossmith, George
Grote, George
Ground-to-air message, world’s first
Guildhall Museum
Guildhall Street
Guillemard, AG
Guinness, Sir Alec
Gundulf of Rochester
Gurney, Ivor
Gustafson, John
Guy’s Hospital Football Club
Gypsy Tart
Hadlow Castle
Hagen, Walter
Halden Place
Hales Place
Hales, Stephen
Hall Place
Halley, Edmond
Hamilton, Charles
Hamilton, John Warburton
Hamilton, Admiral Sir Richard Vesey
Hammond, Celia
Hammond, Wally
Hamnett, Katharine
Hardinge, Henry, Field Marshall 1st Viscount Hardinge
Hardinge, Wally
Hardy, Sir Thomas
Harley, Steve
Harman, Lance-Corporal John
Harris, Sir Augustus
Harris, George, 4th Lord Harris
Harrison, John
Harry, Debbie
Hart, Tony
Hartlake disaster, The
Hartnell, William
Harvey, Captain John
Harvey, Major Francis
Harvey, Sir William
Hassall, Christopher
Hasted
Hawtrey, Charles
Hay, Will
Hazell, Keeley
Hazlitt, William
Hearne, Richard
Hearnes, The
Heath, Sir Edward
Heath, Sir Robert
Hemmings, Trevor
Hendrix, Jimi
Hengist and Horsa
Henrietta Maria, Queen of England
Henri Grace à Dieu
Henry V, King of England
Henry VIII, King of England
Henry, Prince, Duke of Gloucester
Hepburn, Audrey
Heresy trials, Lollards
Heronden Hall
Herschel, Sir John, 1st Baronet
Hever Castle
Higham Park
High Elms
High Rocks
High Sheriff of Kent
Hill, Benny
Hill, Sir George Rowland
Hill, Harry
Hill, Octavia
Hislop, Ian
Hislop, Victoria
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred
Hither Green rail crash
HMS Bulwark disaster
HMS Glatton, sinking of
HMS Princess Irene disaster
HMS Sovereign of the Seas, launch of
HMS Truculent, sinking of
HMS Victory, launch of
Hodgson, Roy
Hogarth, William
Hole Park
Holland, Jools
Holland House
Hollingbourne Manor
Holly, Buddy
Holly-Boy and Ivy-Girl
Holly Hill Wood
Hollywood, Paul
Holmes, Colonel Dame Kelly
Holwood House
Honor Oak
Hoodening
Hooker, Richard
Hope, Bob
Hop Farm, The
Hornby
Horne’s Place Chapel
Horniman, Annie
Hothfield Place
Houdini, Harry
Houghton, Bobby
House of Agnes, The
Hovercraft, first Channel crossing by
Howard Paul, Mrs
Howard, Trevor
Howletts House
Howletts Wildlife Park
Huang Ya-Dong
Hubble, Jack
Huffkins
Hues, Jack
Hughes, Margaret ‘Peg’
Huguenot migrations, The
Huleatt, Charles
Hull, Rod
Hume, Benita
Hurt, Sir John
Hutchings, Kenneth
Hylton, Jane
Hythe School of Musketry, the opening of the
Idol, Billy
Ightham Mote
Imperial War Museum, the opening of
Indemnity & Oblivion Act, The
Indian National Congress, the foundation of the
‘Ingoldsby Legends, The’
Ingress Abbey
Invasion of France from England, the penultimate
Invicta
Iqbal, Asif
IRA bomb outrage, Deal
IRA bomb outrage, Maidstone
Iris germanica Kent Pride
Irving, Sir Henry
Ishiguro, Sir Kazuo
Isle of Thanet Races
Ivorex
Ivor the Engine
Ivy, Bill
Jackson, Glenda
Jacobi, Sir Derek
Jacques, Hattie
Jagger, Sir Mick
Jago, Gordon
James II, King of England
James, Henry
James, MR
Jezreel’s Tower
Joan, Countess of Kent
Joan of Navarre
John II the Good, King of France
John Grant case, The
John, Sir Elton
John Paul II, Pope
Johnson, Amy, death of
Johnson, Isaac
Johnson, Katie
Johnson, Dr Samuel
Jousting
Joyce Green
Justice, James Robertson
Jutes, The
Kaspar Hauser
Kearsney Abbey
Keats, John
Kelsey Park
Kennard, Wing Commander Hugh
Kennedy, President John F
Kent All-Comers’ Championships
Kent & East Sussex Railway
Kent Battle of Britain Museum
Kent Coalfield, The
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Lunatic Asylum, opening of
Kent County Show
Kent House
Kentish Beacons, The
Kentish cherry batter pudding
Kentish cobnuts
Kentish dialect
Kentish Fire
Kentish glory
Kentish Knock
Kent peg tiles
Kentish Petition of 1642
Kentish Petition of 1701
Kentish plover
Kentish Post, launch of
Kentish rag
Kentish rarebit
Kentish Resistance
Kentish Royal Legend, The
Kentish tracery
Kent Lent pie
Kent Life
Kent miners’ strike
Kent rose
Keppel, Alice
Kerly, Sean
Kidd, Captain
Kidman, Nicole
King’s forced landing near Broadstairs, the
King, Syd
King’s School, Canterbury, foundation of the
Kingston brooch
Kipling, Rudyard
Kitchener, Lord
Kit’s Coty House
Knatchbull-Hugessen, Sir Hughe
Knole
Knott, Alan
Knowlton Court
Koettlitz, Reginald
Kray, Reggie
Kropotkin, Pyotr
Kubrick, Stanley
Kureishi, Hanif
Lady in the Woods, The
Lady Lovibond, The
Laker, Sir Freddie
Lamb, Charles
Lambarde, William
Lamb’s tail pie
Lanchester, Elsa
Landen, Dinsdale
Langtry, Lillie
Larking, Sir Charles Gordon
La Rue, Danny
‘Last Orders’
Last woman publicly hanged
Lathes
Laurel & Hardy
Law, Andrew Bonar
Law, Jude
Lawn Tennis
Lawrence of Arabia
Leary, Stuart
Leas Cliff Hall
Leas Lift
Lee, Anna
Lee, Bernard
Lee, Sir Henry
Leeds Castle
Leeds Castle, 1st Siege of
Leeds Castle, 2nd Siege of
Leeds Castle Summit, 1978
Leeds Park Cricket Club
Lees Court
Legat School of Ballet, The
Leland, John
Le Mesurier, John
Lenham Cross
Lewis, Charlie
Lewis-Evans, Lewis & Stuart
Lewisham rail crash
Libbet and daddy
Liddell, Alice
Liddell, Eric
Lilburne, John
Linacre, Thomas
Linton Place
Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister
Little Richard
Littler, Prince
Little Tich
Littlewood, John
Liudhard medalet
Live football on TV
Lloyd, John
Lloyd, Marie
Lloyd-George, David
Loader, Kevin
Locke, John
Lockwood, Margaret
Lodge, David
Lom, Herbert
Lomea
London & Greenwich Railway
London Marathon
London Stone, The
Lord Lucan, disappearance of
Lott, Pixie
Louis-Philippe I, King of France
Lovelace, Francis
Lovelace, Richard
Lowell, Robert
Lubbock, Sir John, Baron Avebury
Lubbocks, The
Lucas, Wing Commander Laddie
Luddesdown Court
Lullingstone Castle
Lullingstone Roman Villa
Lumley, Joanna
Lydd Airport
Lyly, John
Lympne Airport
Lympne Castle
Lynne, Dame Gillian
Lynsted Court
Macauley, Catharine
MacGowan, Shane
Mackeson’s
Macklin, Lance
Maclean, Donald, defection of
‘Magical Mystery Tour’
Maidstone Athletic Ground
Maidstone, Battle of
Maidstone Grammar School, incorporation of
Maidstone ‘iguanadon’
Maidstone Ladies Football Club
Maidstone League, The
Maidstone Studios, The
Maidstone Tennis Tournament
Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic
Maison Dieu, Dover
Maison Dieu, Ospringe
Mann, Sir Horatio, 2nd Baronet
Manston Airport
Mantovani
Manuel II Palaeologos, Emperor of Byzantium
Marconi, Guglielmo
Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England
Margate Jetty, destruction of
Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
Maria Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia
Marie, Queen of Roumania
Maritime film, first British
Maritime Museum
Marks, Charlie
Marlowe, Christopher
Marlowe Theatre
Marsh, James
Martin, Sir George
Marx, Karl
Mary I, Queen of England
Mason, Gary
Matfield House
Matthew Paris’s Map
Maugham, W Somerset
Maunsell Forts
Maxim, Sir Hiram
Maynard, Captain Robert
McCudden, Major James
McGoohan, Patrick
McKern, Leo
McManus, Mick
McMullan, Jimmy
McQueen, Alexander
McTell, Ralph
McVie, Christine
Medway, Battle of the
Medway, Raid on the
Medway, River
Men of Kent and Kentish Men
Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin
Mereworth Castle
Mersham-le-Hatch
Metropolitan Board of Works
Metternich-Winneburg zu Bellstein, Prince of
Miles, Maxine
Millais Oak, The
Millen, Karen
Milligan, Spike
Milton Chantry
Minster Abbey
Minster-in-Thanet Priory
Mission Control, Lympne
Modern Pentathlon
Monkhouse, Bob
Monk Lakes
Monks Horton Priory
Montagu, John, 2nd Duke of Montagu
Montefiore, Sir Moses
Montgomery, Field Marshall Bernard, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Montresor, Captain John
Moore, Sir Bobby
Moore, Henry
Moore, Lieutenant General Sir John
Moore, Sir Roger
More, Sir Thomas
Morecambe, Eric
Morgan, Lieutenant General Sir Frederick
Morley, Eric
Morley, Robert
Morpurgo, Sir Michael
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Morris, William
Morton’s Fork
Moss, Stirling
Mote, The
Mouat, Frederic
Mountaineering
Mount Ephraim Gardens
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Muir, Frank
Mulcaster, Captain Sir William
Mummery, Fred
Murdoch, Richard
Mynn, Alfred
Nairne, Edward
Napoleon III, Emperor of France
Napoleon’s invasion plan
Nash, Beau
Nash, Paul
National Hop Collection
National Maritime Museum
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson
Nepean, Charles
Nesbit, E.
Nettlestead Place
Nevison’s horse ride
New Brompton Football Club
Newell, Isaac
Nicklaus, Jack
Night Ferry, The
Niven, David
Noel, John
Nore Mutiny
Northcliffe, Lord
North Cray Place
North Downs
North Downs Way
Northern Belle, wreck of the
Northfleet, sinking of the
Novak, Kim
Nunn, John
O2, The
Oakley, Annie
Oakwood Hospital fire
Oakwood House
Oast houses
Oates, Titus
Odo of Bayeux
Offa, King of Mercia
O’Grady, Paul
Olantigh Towers
Old Canonry
Old County Ground
Oldman, Gary
Old Royal Naval College
Old Soar Manor
Old Stagers, The
Old Weavers House
‘One That Got Away, The’
Operation Dynamo
Operation Sealion
Orczy, Emma, Baroness
Ordnance Survey, first map
Original All Blacks
Origanum Kent Beauty
Ostend Expedition, The
Otford, 1st Battle of
Otford, 2nd Battle of
Otford Palace
Otham Manor
Ottaway, Cuthbert
Otterden Place
Over-arm bowling
Owletts
Owling
Oxney Court
Oxo cube
Oxon Hoath
Paine, Thomas
Pallister, Gary
Pantiles, The
Parsons, Lieutenant Francis
Pater, Walter
Paul, Leslie
Paul, Sandra, Baroness Howard of Lympne
Pavarotti, Luciano
Paxton, Sir Joseph
Peacock, Gavin
Peacock, Keith
Peake, Mervyn
Peasants’ Revolt, The
Pegwell Bay
Penenden Heath, last hangings at
Penenden Heath Trial
Penn, John Jr
Penn, William the Younger
Penshurst Place
Pepys, Samuel
Pertinax, Emperor of Rome
Pertwee, Roland
Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia
Pett cricket bat
Pett, Captain Phineas
Pett, Peter
Pett Place
Pevsner’s Kent
Philip II, King of Spain
Pilch, Fuller
Pilgrims Way
Pissarro, Camille
Pitchers Shipyards
Pitney, Gene
Pitt the Elder, William
Pitt the Younger, William
Pitt Rivers, Lieutenant-General Augustus
Place names
Placentia, Palace of
Plimsoll, Samuel
Plot, Dr Robert
Plum Pudding Riot
PLUTO bungalows
Pocahontas
Portland cement
Port Lympne Mansion
Port Lympne Safari Park
Powell, Michael
Powell-Cotton, Major Percy
Powlett, Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland
Prajadhipok, King Rama VII of Siam
Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden
Preston Hall
Priestfield Stadium
Primary Club
Prince
Prince Imperial, the slaying of the
Prospect Cottage
Provender House
Pugin, Augustus
Pujji, Squadron Leader Mohinder Singh
Quant, Mary
Quebec House
Queen Elizabeth Oak
Queen’s House
Quex House
Raducanu, Emma
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Rallycross
Ramsgate Tunnels
Rare Breeds Centre
Read, Phil
Rebellion, Jack Cade’s
Rectory Field
Reculver Towers
Redgrave, Vanessa
Red House, The
Reed, Sir Carol
Reeves & Mortimer
Reeves, John Sims
Renny-Tailyour, Henry
Restoration House
Reza Pahlavi, Mohammed, Shah of Persia
Rhodes, Gary
Rhodes, Dame Zandra
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Richard I, King of England
Richard III, King of England
Richard, Cliff
Richard of Eastwell
Richards, Frank, see Hamilton, Charles
Richards, Keith
Richborough Castle
Rigby, Edward
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
Ringle Crouch Green Mill
Ringlemere cup
Ringlestone Inn
Riou, Captain Edward
Riverhill Himalayan Gardens
RNAS Kingsnorth
Robson, Frederick
Rocastle, David
Rochester Castle
Rochester Cathedral
Rochester, Siege of
Rochester Sweeps Festival
Roller hockey
Rolvenden Windmill
Roman lighthouse at Dover
Roman Painted House
Romans, arrival of
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
Romney Marsh
Romney sheep
Rood of Grace, The
Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet Sir George
Rootes, William, 1st Baron Rootes
Roper Gate
Rose, Sir Alec
Rosherville Gardens, opening of
Rossetti, Christina
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rothwell, Talbot
Round-arm bowling
Roux, Albert
Royal Aero Club, The
Royal Armoury Mills, The
Royal Arsenal, The
Royal Artillery, The
Royal Blackheath Golf Club
Royal Dockyards, The
Royal Engineers, The
Royal Engineers AFC
Royal Engineers Museum
Royal Faversham
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, The
Royal Military Canal, The
Royal Naval College, The
Royal Observatory, The
Royal St George’s Golf Club, The
Royce, Sir Henry
Rugby Football Union, The
Rumball Whitings
Rumble in Wrotham, The
Russell, Bertrand, 3rd Earl Russell
Russell, Henry
Russell, Peter
Ryan, John
Rylance, Sir Mark
Sackville, Edward, 4th Earl of Dorset
Sackville, John, 3rd Duke of Dorset
Sackville-West, Vita
Sadler, David
Sadler, Matthew
St Alban’s Court
St Anselm of Canterbury
St Augustine of Canterbury
St Augustine’s Abbey
St Augustine’s Conduit House
St Augustine’s Cross
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester (1078), foundation of
St Bertha, Queen of Kent
St Clere
St George’s Tower, Canterbury
St John the Baptist Hospital, Canterbury
St Lawrence Ground
St Leonard’s Church Ossuary
St Leonard’s Tower
St Martin’s Church
St Peters, Crispian
St Radegund’s Abbey
St Sexburga
St Thomas Becket
St William of Rochester, murder of
Salomons, Sir David, 2nd Baronet
Saltwood Castle
Salutation, The
Samphire Hoe
Sancho, Ignatius
Sanders, George
Sandgate Castle
Sandwich, The
Sandwich, 1st Battle of
Sandwich, 2nd Battle of
Sandwich, 3rd Battle of
Sandwich runes, The
Sandwich, Sack of
Sandwich tern
Sandys, Edwin
Sandys, George
Sargent, John Singer
Sargent, Sir Malcolm
Sarre Windmill
Sassoon, Siegfried
Saunders, Ben
Saxon Shore Way
Scotney Castle
Screaming Woods
Seaside
Secret Wartime Tunnels
Sedley, Sir Charles
Seed, Jimmy
Sellers, Piers
Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome
Seth, Vikram
Sevenoaks rail accident
Seymour, Henry
Shackleton, Sir Ernest
Sharp, Sir Edward
Sharsted Court
Shaw, George Bernard
Shell Grotto
Shelley, Mary
Shepherd Neame
Sheppey Crossing incident
Sheppey, Isle of
Sheridan, Andrew
Shipley, William
Shoe money
Short Brothers
Shovell, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley
Shurland Hall
Sibley, Dame Antoinette
Sidney, Algernon
Sidney, Henry, 1st Earl of Romney
Sidney, Sir Philip
Sidney, William, 1st Viscount De L’isle
Sigismond of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor
Simpson, John
Sinden, Sir Donald
Sioux, Siouxsie
Sir Edward Dering’s Regiment of Foot
Sir John Boys House
Sisi, Empress of Austria
Sissinghurst Castle Gardens
Smallhythe Place
Smalling, Chris
Smith, Granny
Smith, Sir Francis Pettit
Smith, Steve
Smith, Stevie
Smith’s Hall
SMS Grosser Kurfürst, sinking of
Smuts, Field Marshall Jan
Smythe, Frank
Smythe, Sir Thomas
Snooker
Sobers, Sir Garfield
Somme Football, The
Sondes murder
Son of My Father
‘SOS’ message, world’s first
Spall, Timothy
Spa Valley Railway
Speeding ticket, world’s first
Spencer, Herbert
Spencer, Peggy
Spenser, Edmund
Sports broadcaster, Britain’s first
Sportsman, The
Squerryes Court
SS Deutschland, wreck of
SS Kielce explosion
SS Princess Alice disaster
SS Richard Montgomery, wreck of
Stained glass revival, the
Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope
Stanhope, James, 1st Earl Stanhope
Stanhope, Lady Hester
Stanhope, Philip, 5th Earl Stanhope
Staplehurst rail crash
Starkey, Dr David
Starkey’s Castle
Steadman, Ralph
Stede, Edwyn
Stede Court
Stephen, King of England
Stephens, Holman F
Stephenson, George
Stewart, Sir Rod
Still, John
Stokeses, The
Stone, Joss
Stonley, Stiv
Stowting air crash
Street, The
Strongbow
Stupples, Karen
Styrene, Poly
Surrenden Dering
Surtees, John
Sutton Valence Castle
Swanscombe Man
Swanton, EW
Swarling Manor
Sweyn Forkbeard, King of England
Swing Riots
Sydney, Lord
Syms, Sylvia
Tallis, Thomas
Taylor, Peter
Telford, Thomas
Temple Manor
Templer, Colonel James
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Ten wickets in an innings
Terry, Dame Ellen
Testonites, The
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thames & Medway Canal
Thames Barrier
Thanet Belle, The
Thanet, Isle of
Thanetian Age
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness Thatcher
Theatre Royal, Margate
Theobald, Lewis
Theroux, Louis
Thompson, Jim
Thompson, Sir Thomas
Thomson, Andy
Thorndike, Dame Sybil
Thorndike, Russell
Tissot, James
Tithe Barn, Maidstone
Tizard, Sir Henry
Todd, Bob
Tonbridge Castle
Tong, Pete
Torry Hill
Tourtel, Mary
Townsend, Andy
Toys Hill
Tradescant, John the Younger
Trafalgar Tavern
Transatlantic crossings, first by steamship
Trevithick, Richard
Trumpington, Baroness
Tuck, Wing Commander Roland Stanford
Tull, Walter
Tunbridge Ware
Tunbridge Wells hailstorm
Tunbridge Wells Opera House
Tunstall House
Turner, JMW
Turner, Tim
Turpin, Dick, Kentish raids of
Tyler, Wat
Ufton, Derek
Underwood, Derek
Unitarian Old Meeting House
Upnor Castle
Valley Party, The
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Vanbrugh Castle
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony
Van Gogh, Vincent
Vespasian, Emperor of Rome
Vicious, Sid
Vickers Vimy, The
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, Empress of India
Vigo
Village, The
Vincent, Gene
Vine Cricket Ground
Vinters Park
Von Blücher, Field Marshall
Von Bülow, General
Vyvyan, Jennifer
Wade, Virginia
Waldershare Park
Wallace, Edgar
Waller, Sir William
Wallinger’s white elephant
Wallis, Sir Barnes
Walmer Castle
Walpole, Horace
Walpole Bay Hotel
Walsingham, Sir Francis
Wantsum Channel
Ward, Jack
Warlock, Peter
Warner, Jack
Watling Street
Watts, Naomi
Weald, The
Wealden cloth industry
Wealden hall house
Wealden iron industry
Weil, Simone
Weldon, Sir Anthony
Wellington, Duke of
Wells, HG
Wells, John
Wesley, John
Westenhanger Castle
Western Heights
Westgate Towers
West House, The
West Kent Football Club
Whatman, James the Elder
Whispering the death
Whistler, Rex
White Cliffs of Dover
White Horse Stone
White Horse Wood Country Park
Whitehead, Alfred North
Whitstable, great fire of
Whitstable Oyster Festival
Whitworth, Charles, 1st Earl Whitworth
Widdecombe, Ann
Wilberforce, William
Wilberforce Oak
Wilde, Marty
Wilde, Oscar
Willcox, Toyah
Wilhelm
Willett, William
William Rufus, King of England, strange death of
Williams, Bill
Willikin of the Weald
Willis, Ted, Baron Willis
Wilson, Josephine
Wingfield-Stratford, Cecil
Wingham Wildlife Park
Winner, Sir Michael
Winslet, Kate
Winter Gardens, Margate
Winwood, Estelle
Witch trial, Eleanor Cobham
Witch trial, Faversham
Witch trial, Maidstone
Wolfe, Major-General James
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas
Wooderson, Sydney
Woodville, Richard, 1st Earl Rivers
Woolley, Frank
Woolworth’s V-2 disaster
Wordsworth, William
World Custard Pie Championship
World Rugby
World speed record
Worrall Thompson, Antony
Wotton, Sir Henry
Wright brothers
Wright, Ian
Wyatt, Sir Thomas the Elder
Wyatt, Sir Thomas the Younger
Wyatt’s Rebellion
Wyman, Bill
Wyngarde, Peter
Yacht racing
Yarnold, Lizzy
Yarrow Hotel
Yarrow, Sir Alfred
Yates, Dornford
Yeats, WB
York, Michael
Yotes Court
Young, Thomas
Younghusband, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis
Zborowski, Louis
Zborowski, Margaret
Zeebrugge Raid
Zeppelin L15, destruction of
Zeta-Jones, Catherine