Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1) Introduction - Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards and Sheila Sweetinburgh
Part 1 Topography
2) Kent's Changing Coastal Landscape: A View across Space and Time (or "where the land meets the sea"!) - Chris Young
Part II Defence
3) Defending the Kent coast - Roman to Anglo-Saxon - Keith Parfitt
4) The Maritime Defences of Kent from the Loss of Normandy to the Hundred Years' War - Adrian Jobson
5) To Defend the Coast - Chris Ware
6) Kent's Role in the National Defence Strategy, 1815 to 1865: Dockyards and Harbours in the Age of Steam - Andrew Lambert
Part III Trade and Industry
7) Trade and Industry during the Roman Period - Elizabeth Blanning
8) Far-Fetched Treasures: The Maritime Networks of the Kingdom of Kent - Andrew Richardson
9) Maritime Trade and Industry in Medieval Kent - Maryanne Kowaleski
10) The Early Modern Period 1500-1700: Trade and Industry - Jane Andrewes
11) Maritime Kent: Trade and Industry since 1700 - David Killingray
Part III Coastal Communities
12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages - Gillian Draper
13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent's History, c.1500-1840 - Ben Marsh and David Killingray
14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent - Sandra Dunster
15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities - Elizabeth Edwards
Part IV Case Studies
16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 - Susan Rose
17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe - Sheila Sweetinburgh
18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent - Melanie Caiazza
19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society - Gill Wyatt
20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500-1660 - Claire Bartram
21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women's Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley
23) Afterword - Margarette Lincoln
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Stuart Bligh was formerly Head of Research at the National Maritime Museum and County Archivist for Kent. Sheila Sweetinburgh is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at Canterbury Christ Church University and editor of Early Medieval Kent, 800-1220 (Boydell, 2016) and Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (Boydell, 2018). Stuart Bligh was formerly Head of Research at the National Maritime Museum and County Archivist for Kent. ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. Sheila Sweetinburgh is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at Canterbury Christ Church University and editor of Early Medieval Kent, 800-1220 (Boydell, 2016) and Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (Boydell, 2018). Elizabeth Edwards is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent and was from 1994-2007 Director of the Kentish Regional and Local History degree programme.

Reviews

Maritime Kent is an academic work, [..] but many will find it contains interesting material. The success of some places and the misfortunes of others, past and current, provoke sober consideration.
*LOCAL HISTORIAN*

The book succeeds in drawing out the place of the sea in every facet of the county's development.
*THE NORTHERN MARINER/LE MARIN DU NORD*