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Kent Connections
Writing about writers and literature connected to Kent, England, written by members of the Department of English and Language Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University.
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Whitstable, Variety, and ‘Tipping the Velvet’
Whitstable, 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…
Kent Connections
Aug 28, 2014
“[I]n and out of these decaying halls I move…”
“[I]n and out of these decaying halls I move…”
Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst Castle
Kent Connections
Aug 20, 2014
‘Nothing with Nothing’ – T.S Eliot and the Regeneration of Margate
‘Nothing with Nothing’ – T.S Eliot and the Regeneration of Margate
In a poem referencing the grandeur of the civilisations such as Carthage and Alexandria, readers of T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) might…
Kent Connections
Aug 19, 2014
Reflecting on chasing ghosts
It 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…
Kent Connections
Jul 30, 2014
Who will remember the unheroic dead?
Who will remember the unheroic dead?
Dr Andrew Palmer considers war memorials and poetry
Kent Connections
Jul 21, 2014
‘There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud’
‘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…
Kent Connections
Jul 2, 2014
In which Dr Oulton becomes Pooter
In which Dr Oulton becomes Pooter
A Mass Observation Diary Recording, May 2014
Kent Connections
Jun 6, 2014
‘Good grub and prime larks in the daytime, and billiards and bitter at nights’
‘Good grub and prime larks in the daytime, and billiards and bitter at nights’
Pooter’s Victorian Kent seaside.
Kent Connections
May 29, 2014
The Woman in White, born in Broadstairs
The Woman in White, born in Broadstairs
Wilkie Collins loved the seaside resorts of East Kent, and brought his double life with him.
Kent Connections
May 19, 2014
Lost in the Jungle
Lost in the Jungle
Remembering Vietnam, Conrad, ‘Apocalypse Now’, and ‘The Things They Carried’
Kent Connections
May 15, 2014
Thoughts from a troubled reader
Thoughts from a troubled reader
Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and colonialism
Kent Connections
May 8, 2014
Happier at Margate
Happier at Margate
Victorian writer Jerome K. Jerome was a terrible snob, and one of the funniest writers ever.
Kent Connections
May 6, 2014
If the bard was weather-wise….
If the bard was weather-wise….
Weather and news reports in rhyme?
Kent Connections
Apr 30, 2014
Girls who talk too much
Girls who talk too much
From Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet, Mary Wollstonecraft, to Mary Beard— all impertinent women.
Kent Connections
Apr 28, 2014
Freak weather in Elizabethan Kent
Freak weather in Elizabethan Kent
“the wind which some doo call Dover wind”
Kent Connections
Apr 25, 2014
Medieval Canterbury and modern day Detroit have more in common than you’d think
Medieval Canterbury and modern day Detroit have more in common than you’d think
Destruction, redevelopment and the fragility of urban culture.
Kent Connections
Apr 23, 2014
Exchanging knowledge — The Kent Connections Project
Exchanging knowledge — The Kent Connections Project
Academics from Canterbury Christ Church University get to write about their passions.
Kent Connections
Apr 9, 2014
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