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 | Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair
A poem illustrating the Kentish Dialect.
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| Royal Tunbridge Wells
The description of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, written and included in Baedeker's England, 1923.
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| The Bullen or Boleyn Family of Hever
The family of Boleyn or Bullen, originally of French extraction, was transplanted to England soon after the Norman Conquest and settled in Norfolk.
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| The Faversham Explosions
Newspaper accounts of the several explosions at the gun-cotton works in Faversham that occurred during 1847.
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| The Kentish Dialect
The story of Dick and Sal, a Kentish poem in 100 stanzas, aptly introduces the reader to the Kentish dialect. A short dictionary of some of the more obscure provincialisms contained in the poem are included.
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| The Outrages in Kent
A widespread uprising of agricultural labourers, the so-called ‘Swing Riots’, occurred in southern and eastern England in 1830. The men were protesting against agricultural mechanisation and harsh conditions. The spark that ignited the countryside occurred in Kent, in the Elham Valley, between Canterbury and Folkestone, where threshing…
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