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KAS Hon. Reviews Editor Job Description

An exciting opportunity to work with the Editor of Archaeologia Cantiana and gain experience in the world of journal publications. If you are interested, please get in touch with the chair of the KAS Publications Committee in the first instance: sheila.sweetinburgh@kentarchaeology.org.uk

The Reviews Section of Archaeologia Cantiana covers online or print publications on (Kentish) archaeology or history that are likely to interest members of KAS.

The role of the Reviews Editor is to receive requests from publishers, societies or individuals for reviews, receive suggestions from members, and identify and pro-actively seek online or in print review copies from publishers, local societies or individuals. Review copies may arrive throughout the year, but the majority come in the few months before December and may require a rapid turnaround for the final deadline for copy for Arch Cant.

The Reviews Editor assesses whether the publication should have a full review or a short notice and liaises with the Editor of Arch Cant on total word length and the final deadline for copy.

Using a network of contacts to identify possible reviewers, the Reviews Editor will contact potential reviewers and set an appropriate word length and deadline, arranging for a copy or access to the publication to be sent to them, together with guidelines for new reviewers. The Reviews Editor should text edit and lay out the complete reviews section before passing it to the Editor.

Publication: Northfleet's Forgotten Tunnels

A 20-page full-colour account of Henley's industrial WWII air-raid shelter tunnels at Northfleet, Kent, by Victor Smith. Originally published in the August 2022 (no. 60) issue of Subterranea, the publication tells the fascinating story of the network of chalk tunnels, some 55ft below Fountain Walk at Northfleet in Kent. This Second World War industrial air-raid shelter complex was created as a refuge for 2,500 employees of W.T.Henley Telegraph Works and its associated companies, whose Thameside premises were adjacent. The need for physical protection reflected the increasingly destructive and existential threat of aerial bombardment and a national imperative to safeguard industrial workers.

Enquiries via e-mail to sandrasoder@yahoo.co.uk and Facebook: Thames Defence Heritage Gravesend.