Beyond the Green Baize Door: social and domestic life at Cobham Hall over two centuries
This selection of resources is based on an exhibition of the same title held at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre between November 2005 and January 2006 as part of the Archives Awareness Campaign 2005 to mark the completion of the listing of the family papers of the Earls of Darnley, enabled by a Heritage Lottery Grant made two years earlier.
The Darnley Archive is an extensive private collection, the listing of which amounted to over 3,000 records representing many more individual items dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries, when the family lived at Cobham Hall. The estate records cover most aspects of farming the estate and managing its tenants. The family records are extremely varied and reflect the family's interests and official duties.
The text and images reproduced here are a selection of the items that were included in the exhibition and they give a flavour of the kinds of documents and records that are available. They should provide students, teachers and other researchers with inspiration and possible pointers to further research using the collection.
Most of Lord Darnley's collection was deposited with Kent and Medway Archives from 1956 to 2004, before being transferred to Medway Archives.
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