Medway’s Lady Swimmers
were they early ‘female emancipators’?
Evelyn Dunbar 1906 – 1960 – artist and “insistent feminist”
This is an account of the ‘local-life’ of Evelyn Dunbar – an outstanding young woman artist / illustrator who lived and partly trained in Medway, and who documented through her art the […]
‘Mother of England’ – ‘Bertha of France’! And how Kent got two Cathedrals?
Bertha’s history seems somewhat to have been overwritten by that of her husband, King Ethelbert of Kent – but it was through their marriage and Bertha’s influence, that Christianity was […]
St. Barts – A dark period in its history that delivered a “burning injustice to women”
The following describes what, by today’s standards, was a very dark period in the history of St. Barts – part hospital, part ‘prison’ – but it may have also strengthen […]
St. Bart’s, Rochester, 1914/1918 – and its matron honoured by the King.
This blog offers some insights into how St Barts continued to grow and the demands made on it during the Great War. Such were the demands, arising from the number […]
Rochester’s women’s suffrage movement
It is right in 2018, a century after some women gained the vote, to recognise the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett however their success could not have […]
1,000 Rochester women chase a bigamist out of the City.
Bigamist escapes with his life but is hounded out of the City
A Slave Trader with Medway Connections
The brutish life of a ‘reformed’ slave trader This is an account of John Newton (24 July 1725–21 Dec 1807) – a man who was press-ganged at Chatham, who was […]
