List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1) Introduction - Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards and Sheila SweetinburghPart 1 Topography2) Kent''s Changing Coastal Landscape: A View across Space and Time (or "where the land meets the sea"!) - Chris YoungPart II Defence3) Defending the Kent coast - Roman to Anglo-Saxon - Keith Parfitt4) The Maritime Defences of Kent from the Loss of Normandy to the Hundred Years'' War - Adrian Jobson5) To Defend the Coast - Chris Ware6) Kent''s Role in the National Defence Strategy, 1815 to 1865: Dockyards and Harbours in the Age of Steam - Andrew LambertPart III Trade and Industry7) Trade and Industry during the Roman Period - Elizabeth Blanning8) Far-Fetched Treasures: The Maritime Networks of the Kingdom of Kent - Andrew Richardson9) Maritime Trade and Industry in Medieval Kent - Maryanne Kowaleski10) The Early Modern Period 1500-1700: Trade and Industry - Jane Andrewes11) Maritime Kent: Trade and Industry since 1700 - David KillingrayPart III Coastal Communities12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages - Gillian Draper13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent''s History, c.1500-1840 - Ben Marsh and David Killingray14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent - Sandra Dunster15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities - Elizabeth EdwardsPart IV Case Studies16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 - Susan Rose17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe - Sheila Sweetinburgh18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent - Melanie Caiazza19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society - Gill Wyatt20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500-1660 - Claire Bartram21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexCommunities12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages - Gillian Draper13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent''s History, c.1500-1840 - Ben Marsh and David Killingray14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent - Sandra Dunster15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities - Elizabeth EdwardsPart IV Case Studies16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 - Susan Rose17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe - Sheila Sweetinburgh18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent - Melanie Caiazza19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society - Gill Wyatt20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.
1500-1660 - Claire Bartram21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexde la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexCommunities12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages - Gillian Draper13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent''s History, c.1500-1840 - Ben Marsh and David Killingray14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent - Sandra Dunster15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities - Elizabeth EdwardsPart IV Case Studies16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 - Susan Rose17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe - Sheila Sweetinburgh18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent - Melanie Caiazza19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society - Gill Wyatt20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500-1660 - Claire Bartram21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L.
Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexCommunities12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages - Gillian Draper13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent''s History, c.1500-1840 - Ben Marsh and David Killingray14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent - Sandra Dunster15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities - Elizabeth EdwardsPart IV Case Studies16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 - Susan Rose17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe - Sheila Sweetinburgh18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent - Melanie Caiazza19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society - Gill Wyatt20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500-1660 - Claire Bartram21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexde la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexde la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexCommunities12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages - Gillian Draper13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent''s History, c.
1500-1840 - Ben Marsh and David Killingray14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent - Sandra Dunster15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities - Elizabeth EdwardsPart IV Case Studies16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 - Susan Rose17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe - Sheila Sweetinburgh18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent - Melanie Caiazza19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society - Gill Wyatt20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500-1660 - Claire Bartram21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexde la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexy Imagination c.1500-1660 - Claire Bartram21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L.
Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndexde la L. Oulton22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women''s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley23) Afterword - Margarette LincolnBibliographyIndex.