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Latest news
- 18th July 2025
This year’s Festival of Archaeology theme is ‘Archaeology and Wellbeing’. Getting out and about and feeling connected to the past and to nature can be a really good way to feel happy and healthy. We thought this would be a great opportunity to share some of our favourite heritage trails and activities from around the...
- 11th June 2025
Amongst the County Court records held with us there are Bankruptcy papers dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. They provide a fascinating insight into the lives of those involved, their circumstances, personal effects, relationships and the challenges that they faced. In the first of two blogs, we outline the history of Bankruptcy,...
- 25th May 2025
There are lots of bank holidays this month. But what does that mean? Bank holidays were first introduced in 1871 by banker and liberal politician for Maidstone, Sir John Lubbock. Thinking about bank holidays led us to look at our range of resources for researching local banks and the people who ran and worked in...