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Beyond the Green Baize Door: social and domestic life at Cobham Hall over two centuries A selection of resources for students, teachers and individuals based on an exhibition of the same title held at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre November 2005 – January 2006. Select the image on the right for a larger version. As part of the Archives Awareness Campaign 2005, Medway Archives staged an exhibition to mark the completion of the listing of the family papers of the Earls of Darnley, enabled by a Heritage Lottery Grant two years previously.
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The Darnley Archive is an extensive private collection, the listing of which amounts 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. It is hoped that they will provide students, teachers and others with inspiration and possible pointers to further research using the collection.
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The collection was mainly deposited with Kent and Medway Archives from 1956 to 2004, prior to being transferred to Medway Archives and is owned by the current Lord Darnley.
All the documents, with the exception of the green files, are accessible to the public at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.
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An archive table must be booked in advance and a CARN ticket obtained, for which two passport-sized photographs and identification will be required. The full list of the documents in the Darnley collection can be found on the CityArk database.
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