Publication date: Wednesday 16th July 2008
Kent Archeological Society
KAS presents two series of history lectures! Dr. Jacqueline Bower will present two series of lectures in the Kent Archaeological Society's Library in Maidstone Museum, both beginning on Monday, September 22 and continuing weekly until April.
In the mornings Dr Bower's subject will be ‘Life in Elizabethan and Stuart England, 1558-1720,' a period of religious and political difficulties and economic transition.
Topics will include population and plague; agriculture; trade and industry; towns; cultural and intellectual life; and the politics of the seventeenth century.
In the afternoons Dr Bower will discuss ‘The History of Kent from Hengist to Jack Cade, 450-1450'. These talks will focus on the land and people of Kent from the earliest Jutish settlements to the end of the Middle Ages.
Topics will include place names and settlement; peasants, population and plague; and towns and trade. This is the first in what is planned as a three year course, studying the history of Kent up to the twentieth century.
The fee for each course is £80. For further details and booking forms contact Joy Sage, KAS Library, Maidstone Museum, St Faith Street, Maidstone ME14 1LH, tel 01622 762924, email joysage@tesco.net
Jacqueline Bower has a B.A. in History (London), M.A. in English Local History (Leicester) and Ph.D. in Economic and Social History (Kent). She is a part-time lecturer in history for the WEA and University of Kent. Her research interests are maritime Kent, the economic and social history of early modern Kent, and family history.
