Kent ConnectionsinKent ConnectionsWhitstable, Variety, and ‘Tipping the Velvet’A naked Italian opera singer, a ukulele orchestra, and a prawn tamer are three of the unusual acts that have taken to the stage at…Aug 28, 2014Aug 28, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent Connections“[I]n and out of these decaying halls I move…”Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst CastleAug 20, 2014Aug 20, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent Connections‘Nothing with Nothing’ – T.S Eliot and the Regeneration of MargateIn a poem referencing the grandeur of the civilisations such as Carthage and Alexandria, readers of T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) might…Aug 19, 20141Aug 19, 20141
Kent ConnectionsinKent ConnectionsReflecting on chasing ghostsIt is 1899 and a young man called Percy Lubbock, from the vicinity of Sevenoaks, is sharing the joke of the year with his new London…Jul 30, 2014Jul 30, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent ConnectionsWho will remember the unheroic dead?Dr Andrew Palmer considers war memorials and poetryJul 21, 2014Jul 21, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent Connections‘There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud’Jerome K. Jerome didn’t just keep to boats…Jul 2, 2014Jul 2, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent ConnectionsIn which Dr Oulton becomes PooterA Mass Observation Diary Recording, May 2014Jun 6, 2014Jun 6, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent Connections‘Good grub and prime larks in the daytime, and billiards and bitter at nights’Pooter’s Victorian Kent seaside.May 29, 2014May 29, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent ConnectionsThe Woman in White, born in BroadstairsWilkie Collins loved the seaside resorts of East Kent, and brought his double life with him. May 19, 2014May 19, 2014
Kent ConnectionsinKent ConnectionsLost in the JungleRemembering Vietnam, Conrad, ‘Apocalypse Now’, and ‘The Things They Carried’May 15, 2014May 15, 2014