10 May 2025
10:00am - 4:30pm
A free study day offering talks and the launch of the project's website concerning Kent's maritime communities, 1450 - 1640.
This public, free, educational outreach event draws on research from the Kent Maritime Communities' project and allied work to highlight the roles of merchants, mariners, their ships and trading connections, as well as coastal defence in late medieval and early modern Kent, thereby highlighting its place as a gateway county. There will be six talks: those in the morning will be by Kieron Hoyle and Jason Mazzocchi on Tudor Dover and late Elizabethan/early Stuart Faversham respectively, while the talks in the afternoon by Drs Sheila Sweetinburgh, Robert Blackmore, Gary Baker and Craig Lambert are drawn from the project's forthcoming book with the same title. Craig Lambert, in the final presentation, will also launch the project's website and demonstrate its value as an educational resource.
As a free event, refreshments are not provided but there will be a 60 mins lunch break and a 30 mins break in the afternoon. There are several take-away refreshments outlets close to Dover Museum. Space is limited so please book to avoid disappointment.
