Committee Round Up

KAS HISTORIC BUILDINGS COMMITTEE

The 2012 Autumn Historic Buildings Conference is to be held on Saturday, 20 October in Harrietsham Village Hall. This year’s theme is ‘Urban Buildings’. More details will be published in the next issue of the Newsletter.

The chance to visit areas of Knole not normally open to the public was announced in the last issue of the Newsletter. This visit, on 1 May, proved to be popular, and has been over-subscribed. Mike Clinch has therefore allocated places to those members who put in their applications first.

Following very positive feedback on the Workshop Day on Building Interpretation and Recording held at the Agricultural Museum in Brook last September, the Committee is investigating the possibility of organising a similar event with the Wye Rural Museum Trust.

By Angela Davis.

KAS INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY COMMITTEE

The 2013 South Eastern Industrial Archaeology Conference will be held at Dartford Grammar School on 27 April 2013. At the moment we are still finalising the speakers but topics to be covered will include the following:- The Gunpowder Industry in Kent, The Kentish Motorcycle Industry, Cement Manufacture in the County, J & E Hall Dartford and Aircraft Restoration.

Further details will be available on the Society’s website as the programme becomes finalised.

If you are interested in joining the Committee or have suggestions for the Conference please contact Mike Clinch either by email mike@mikeclinch.co.uk or phone 01322 526425.

KAS PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE

The Committee continue to seek and approve primary sources to be placed on the Society’s website, having currently agreed to include the 1523 Lay Subsidy for Kent.

A major purpose of the biennial Hasted Prize continues to be realised: Celia Cordle’s book Out of the Hay and Into the Hops (2007 Prize) was published by the University of Hertfordshire Press in hardback and paperback; Toby Huitson’s (2009 Prize) study of church architecture is in press; and the 2011 Prize was awarded to Dr Alison Klevnäs for her Cambridge PhD on grave robbery in east Kent.

A number of grants from the Allen Grove and the Kent History Fund have helped assist research and publication of local history studies.

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