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  • 17th century men of science - Mount
  • 2012 and all that: How the Maya calendar really works - Adler
  • 30 years of 'Bovver on the Hover' - A pilots eye view of Hovercraft in Dover focusing on the lighter side of life (fully illustrated with videos and stills, all equipment supplied) - Laverick-Smith
  • 40 years of speaking - Baldwin
  • ADHD - McShane
  • All the rage: 1920s and 1930s - Ault
  • A man of Kent living abroad - Hole
  • A racing certainty (technical): How to get the most from your action shots, motor racing, aircraft, etc - Bareham
  • A walk round the East End and surrounds (includes Olympics and Call the Midwife areas) - Porter
  • Asthma - McShane
  • A day in the life of a Toastmaster - Baldwin
  • A history of the Justices of the Peace - Wood
  • A Kentishman in Romania - Bull
  • A look at Britain's wildlife - Buckingham
  • A trip through the pre Columbian Americas (illustrated with slides) - Adler
  • An appreciation of the beauty of stained glass - Baldwin
  • An A-Z of garden history: 26 aspects of garden history, one for each letter of the alphabet - Bowes
  • An introduction to the keeping of honeybees - Honeyman
  • An introduction to flowers - Honeyman
  • An introduction to gardening - Honeyman
  • An introduction to social history - Honeyman
  • Ancient Egypt - Adler
  • Armchair guide to Chalk parish - Bull
  • Armchair guide to Northfleet - Bull
  • Armchair guide to Swanscombe - Bull
  • Armchair guide to Shorne - Bull
  • Asters - Aviolet
  • Aviation in the Medway area - Preston
  • Aztec and the Maya - Adler
  • Bedrooms, banquets and balls: The history of the English Country house - Vigar
  • Behind the scenes of television's golden years - Lower
  • Being a Magistrate - Wood
  • Birds of north and east Australia - Buckingham
  • Bloomsbury - Porter
  • Brandy, baccy and 100 years of smuggling - Baldwin
  • Britain with Betjeman: English architecture as seen through the eyes of our Poet Laureate - Vigar
  • Broomhill - Strood's hidden gem - Buchanan
  • Broomhill and the Battle of Britain - Buchanan
  • Bruges - It's more than just chocolate  - Gibson-Barton
  • Buteyko breathing - McShane
  • Casualty simulation - Wildridge
  • Chatham Dockyard 1815-65 - MacDougall
  • Churches in retirement: The work of the Churches Conservation Trust and the Friends of the Friendless Churches - Vigar
  • Citizenship talks to Key Stage 2 (KS2), KS3 and KS4 students - Wood
  • Communicating and connecting with people - Taylor
  • Connoisseur or conman? George IV the Prince Regent and his legacy to the arts - Heard
  • Crossing the Medway for 2000 years: The story of Rochester Bridge - Gibson
  • Curious Ken: Follies and unusual stories from the Garden of England - Vigar
  • Curious London: Overlooked aspects of London history - Vigar
  • Dickens in Kent - Bull
  • Dickens' London - Porter
  • Dickens' Rochester and Chatham - Porter
  • Dig for victory: Gardening and food production during the Second World War - Bowes
  • Dirty Dartford - Bull
  • Discovering British birds - Buckingham
  • Dolls' houses - Wildridge
  • Eccentric Britain - Baldwin
  • EFT: Emotional freedom technique - McShane
  • East end - Porter
  • Eastwards from Wrotham: A comparative topographical study - Vigar
  • Every picture tells a story (general with humour) - Bareham
  • Favourite museums and galleries of Flanders - Gibson-Barton
  • From Aphra Behn to the angry young women - 400 years of women's playwriting - Hall
  • Finding a family (adoption): 20 years of searching - Farnham
  • Fingerprints and murder - Deans
  • Flora exotica - Buckingham
  • Flower power: The symbolism of flowers in art - Bowes
  • Flowers and scenery of Costa Rica - Buckingham
  • Flowers of South Africa - Buckingham
  • Flowers of south-east England - Buckingham
  • Flowers of south-west Australia - Buckingham
  • Flowers of the countryside - Buckingham
  • Flowers of the Pyrenees - Buckingham
  • Folk and fairytales - Wimsett
  • Folklore of Chalk parish - Bull
  • Food - Mount
  • Forgotten parish of Denton - Bull
  • Four days at the nursery - Aviolet
  • From grot to great - Gravesend library's transformation - Bull
  • Funny funerals, weird wills and eccentric epitaphs - Baldwin
  • Glitz and big business - Clayton
  • Going, going, gone - Baldwin
  • Good-bad-or ugly - 160 amusing years of public libraries in Kent - Bull
  • Greek drama/Greek theatre - Edmonds
  • Grinling Gibbons and the art of wood carving - Baldwin
  • Hardy geraniums - Aviolet
  • Haunted London - Porter
  • Haunted Rochester - Arnold
  • Henry VIII and Magnificence: Early Tudor palaces and patronage of the arts - Heard
  • Hidden London - Porter
  • Historic Greenwich - Porter
  • History of colour - Mount
  • History of sailing and a personal passion - Clayton
  • Homeopathy - McShane
  • Hope building and Christain faith speaker - Okafor
  • Horrible Olde London - Porter
  • Hotels - Hole
  • How I make a Victoria sponge cake - Aviolet
  • How to be a successful self-published author - Allen
  • 'How to be happy and make your friends happy too' - Talk, workshop and book - Godwin
  • Humour and literature - Wimsett
  • Humour as a business tool - Adams
  • I am a tulip, what are you? - Aviolet
  • Industrial archaeology and Kent - Preston
  • In my Liverpool home - Wildridge
  • Inspirational speaker - Okafor
  • International women playwrights and plays - Hall
  • Jack's charity 2010 Badwater Ultra footrace across death Death Valley USA. A 135-mile race with temperatures of 120oF. Entered into the record books as the first 75-year-old to complete Badwater Ultra; the first 70-year-old in 2005 and the oldest ever in the world to compete the Death Valley race. Has competed Badwater Ultra since 1997. This is a short talk with 40 minutes of film footage. - Denness
  • Jack the Ripper - Porter
  • Kent Air Ambulance Trust - Wildridge
  • Kent - an unusual view: Three versions - Johnson
  • Kent Big Cat Research - Arnold
  • Kent churches: An in-depth study of 1,500 years of religious heritage - Vigar
  • Kentish ghost stories - Bull
  • Kent villages (various talks) - Coe
  • Kenya, the rift valley and its wildlife - Desson
  • Lace and lace making: A history - Ault
  • Lagos Nigeria in the 70's - Hole
  • Leave no stone unturned: The lives and burial places of the famous and infamous - Vigar
  • Leeds castle - Kneif
  • Lighter than air: Illustrated talk on the history of airships including local airship history on RNAS Kingsnorth - Isle of Grain - Pope
  • Livery companies and the city of London - Baldwin
  • Living in America - Hole
  • Lola Montez, a 19th century adventuress - Kneif
  • Lost empires - the last days of music hall and variety - Lower
  • Local crafts - Preston
  • London is stranger than fiction - Wildridge
  • London's river through artists' eyes - Farnham
  • Love, war and murder - Storytelling in British folk song - Lepine
  • Magistrates and legal system talk to KS5 students - Wood
  • Making a good first impression - Taylor
  • Medieval merchants - Mount
  • Medieval plays and players in Kent - Gibson
  • Medieval housewives - Mount
  • Mediterranean flowers - Buckingham
  • Medway cement industry- Preston
  • Medway Queen paddle steamer - Ellen
  • Medway Queen preservation society - Ellen
  • Medway tales - from the dividing river - Lower
  • Middle East work in the 70's - Hole
  • Mills and Broom - Buchanan
  • Modern British women playwrights - Hall
  • Monumental follies of Great Britain - Baldwin
  • Motivational speaker - Okafor
  • Mountaineering: The lady and the mountain - Laverick-Smith
  • Mrs Beeton's Christmas - Mount
  • Murder, sex and mayhem in English churches - Vigar
  • My life as a comedy writer - Adams
  • Mysteries of Blue Bell Hill - Arnold
  • Mystery animals of Kent - Arnold
  • Mystery animals of London - Arnold
  • Mythology on Greek vases - Edmonds
  • Mythology in modern fiction - Edmonds
  • Myths, magic and mistakes in medicine - Baldwin
  • Nelson's Mistress: The life and times of Lady Emma Hamilton - Heard
  • Nepal, Kathmandu and trekking to Mount Everest base camp - Desson
  • Newmunster - Gravesham's twin town - Bull
  • Not tonight Josephine - the life and court of the Empress Josephine Bonaparte - Heard
  • Of molluscs and me - Howard
  • Olde Taverns and Inns - Porter
  • One of the Dunkirk little ships - Ellen
  • Opera singing - Taylor
  • Ordnance survey ancient and modern: The history of ordnance survey and modern map and data centres - Brown  
  • Other Famous murders 1811-1911 - Porter
  • Paranormal Kent - Arnold
  • Parks and gardens of Flanders - Gibson-Barton
  • Peru and trekking the Inca trail - Desson
  • Phrase and fable - Wimsett
  • Post traumatic stress disorders - McShane
  • Pottery - potters wheel demonstration, glazing pots, kilns and firing methods - Lake
  • Presentation - promotion - sales - influence - relationship building - QJ
  • Publishing on Kindle - Wimsett
  • Rationed fashion: Clothes of the 1940s - Ault
  • Restoration House - Buchanan
  • Restoration Rochester - Mount
  • Rites of passage: Clothes for birth, marriage and mourning - Ault
  • River Medway Part I: Source to East Farleigh - Johnson
  • River Medway Part II: Teston to Thames Estuary - Johnson
  • Rochester Airport - Preston
  • Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and Fleet Air Arm badges (crests), origins and history: Colour slides - Stopford
  • Sailing barges in their heyday: Kent area and South East ports - Farnham
  • Science - Mount
  • Seven wonders of the ancient world - Edmonds
  • Shades and zephyrs: The history of fans and parasols - Ault
  • Short Brothers - Preston
  • Singing technique - Taylor
  • South Africa wildlife: Cape to the Kalahari - Buckingham
  • Strood: The land of used to be - Buchanan
  • Supernatural superstitions - Wimsett
  • Suffragettes - Porter
  • Survival of the weediest: Ranscombe farm and it's wonderful wildflowers. An illustrated talk about one of the UK's most important wildflower reserves - Moyse
  • Sussex churches: A huge variety of ecclesiastical architecture in Downland Country - Vigar
  • Swale and Medway local calendars with poems (July-November) - Penfold
  • Ten or more famous Belgians - Gibson-Barton
  • The adventures of beekeeping -  Honeyman
  • The ancient garden: Gardens of Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire - Bowes
  • The ancient parishes of Gravesham - Bull
  • The artists of the First World War - Heard
  • The art of reading people - Taylor
  • The Aztec and the Maya (illustrated with slides) - Adler 
  • The Bevin Boys - Kneif
  • The caged lady: 19th century - Ault
  • The capable Mr Brown: The life and work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - Bowes
  • The church's restoration: How our old churches were rebuilt in the nineteenth century - Vigar
  • The Country Seat – great English stately homes of the Georgian period - Heard 
  • The Devil's garden: Horrible horticultural histories - Bowes
  • The Docks - Porter
  • The English Civil War 1642-1651 - Barham
  • The Essential English Landscape - Constable and Turner and how they depicted our ‘traditional’ countryside - Heard
  • The first Fort Amherst - Adler
  • The gardens of impressionism: Impressionist painters and their gardens - Heard
  • The ghost in the looking glass: The story of the 19th-century seamstresses - Ault
  • The Grand Tour: The British aristocrat in eighteenth century Italy - Heard
  • The Hall Houses of Southfleet - Kneif
  • The history of the Kentish seaside resorts until the First World War - Kneif
  • The Inexhaustible Mr Paxton: The life of the designer of The Great Exhibition - Bowes
  • The Italian influence on the gardens of Kent - Kneif
  • The King's Mercenary. Talks given about the the life and bloody times of Marcus Hawkeslade, Soldier of Fortune, Gentleman of the Blade and Captain of Horse in the King's army during the English Civil War 1642-1651. All talks are given in the character of Marcus Hakeslade, a mercenary Captain who fought in Europe during the Thirty Years War and upon the outbreak of civil war in England, joined the forces of King Charles. Talks are presented in full authentic battle gear - Barham
  • 'The laughing poet' - Light, romantic and humorous as the audience dictates - Godwin
  • The literary garden: An examination of gardens in literature - Bowes
  • The medieval chantry college of Cobham - Gibson
  • The Medway's Hulks (illustrated with slides) - Adler
  • The painted garden: The history of gardening as seen in works of fine art - Bowes
  • The poor and needy - Clayton
  • The Roman Army's Navy - Adler
  • The Roman garden: A more in-depth look at gardens of the Roman Empire - Bowes
  • The romance of London's river (Southend to Sonning) - Farnham
  • The secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry: An English artistic masterpiece and the Norman spin on what happened in 1066 - Heard
  • The story of charity from medieval piety to 21st century - Clayton
  • The story of fallen women and prostitution - Clayton
  • The Sun King - Louis XIV of France, Versailles and the making of the definitive royal court - Heard
  • The thrill of wild orchids - Buckingham
  • The Titanic - Porter
  • The Trojan war - Edmonds
  • The Tudors London - Porter
  • The undercover story: A look at the history of underclothes - Ault
  • The unusual 18th dynasty (Egypt) - Adler
  • The Vines - Buchanan
  • The Westminster and West End tourists tend not to see - Porter
  • The wildlife and estuaries of North Kent (Thames, Medway and Swale) - Jarrett
  • The Women's Land Army - Kneif
  • To infinity and beyond: How to improve your landscape shots - Bareham
  • Toulouse Lautrec and Bohemian Paris - Heard
  • Uncovering the treasures of Bruges (the arts) - Gibson-Barton
  • Under billowing sails: The romance of tallships - Lower
  • Using your voice well for speaking - Taylor
  • Victorian Doctors - Mount
  • Victorian East End - Porter
  • Wandering in Flanders Fields - Gibson-Barton
  • Water - Aviolet
  • Westminster and the West End - Porter
  • Wild flowers in the countryside in the UK and elsewhere - Buckingham
  • Wildlife through the seasons - Buckingham
  • Wildlife, natural history, birds: A list of 60 titles available - Buckingham
  • Women's employment options in Victorian and Edwardian London - Porter
  • Women impressionist painters - ‘lost’ modern mistresses - Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Eva Gonzales - Heard
  • Women wartime workers in the munitions industry - Kneif
  • Woodland birds - Buckingham
  • Working in Medway 100 years ago - Preston
  • Ye Olde City of London - Porter

 

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