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
