Kent Seaside Resorts
Prof. Carolyn Oulton traces the begins of seaside holidays from their inland spa town origins and explores the health benefits are variable etiquettes of sea bathing.
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Exploring the East Kent Coast Through Digital Heritage is a National Lottery Heritage funded project. Canterbury Christ Church University has been awarded £67,397.00 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to work with four coastal museums in East Kent to help preserve their archives, upskill volunteers in key digital practices and tell the story of these towns beyond their traditional seaside heritage. Through a series of training workshops volunteers will learn to record at-risk archives and develop their digital story-telling skills, creating web content that will explore different aspects of 19th and 20th century life in Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Deal and Sandwich.
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Charles Shadwell and The Fair Quaker of Deal
Charles Shadwell’s play The Fair Quaker of Deal gives a flavour of life near the beach, discussing anchorage in the Downs, provisioning, taverns, prostitution, Quaker life, and debates about reform in the navy during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Deal's War On The Shore
Deal’s shingle shore and the Downs shaped a long military history, from Roman landfall attempts and medieval coastal watch to Tudor fortifications built against invasion. Castles, barracks, mines, shipwrecks, and wartime civil defence reveal how proximity to France and hazardous waters repeatedly drew conflict to the town and left durable traces in its landscape and community memory.
Kent Seaside Resorts
Prof. Carolyn Oulton traces the begins of seaside holidays from their inland spa town origins and explores the health benefits are variable etiquettes of sea bathing.
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Deal by the Sea
Andrew Sargent discusses Deal's connection with the sea.
Gladys Waterer (1885 - 1971)
Gladys Waterer shaped early twentieth-century Dickens performance culture in Broadstairs through festival adaptations and leadership in the Dickens Fellowship. Her novels The Third Chance and The Lady in Mauve weave Margate, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs into coastal fiction that observes local amateur theatre politics and everyday seaside life."