KAS on the Internet

Over the last few years, enthusiastic KAS members have been hard at work building up a presence for the Society on the worldwide internet through the Society's two websites, kentarchaeology.org.uk and kentarchaeology.ac.

The old site is primarily devoted to information about the Society, its constitution, activities, meetings, lectures etc., together with sections affording researchers increasing access to some of the Society's records, while the 'ac' site provides on-line publishing of articles and books about Kentish history and archaeology, together with searchable databases of the KAS library’s books, visual records and other collections. These facilities aim not only to provide ready and easily available services to members, supplementing contact by other methods, but also to enable the Society to reach out on national and worldwide basis to non-members who may be interested in the History and Archaeology of the Ancient County of Kent, by offering access to the Society’s accumulated knowledge and expertise.

It is hoped that the content of the Society’s websites should demonstrate that the Society has and is a very respectable star on the process of entering the internet, and may help to encourage members to take advantage of the facilities digitally provided for its certainly the intention to continue to develop further facilities available through internet access, complementary to contacts with members by other methods.

CONTENTS OF kentarchaeology.org.uk

This site covers the broad areas:

• About KAS: What the Society does, operational structure, grants available, membership issues.
• KAS in and behind the News: Meetings diary, conference notices, news items, copies of press notices and items of KAS Newsletter for downloading.
• Publications: Information on KAS publications of record site monograph series, new Kent Records, sessions and volumes, Archaeologia Cantiana.
• Research: Lists and transcripts of records of various types of interest to researchers such as Early charters, deeds, genealogical and family history, including wills, visual records taken by archaeologists, monument inscriptions from churches and churchyards, transcripts and indexes of wills, Kent place names extracted from OS maps, population figures 1801 to 1921, Roman pottery of Kent, Kentish soil 1934/5.

CONTENTS OF kentarchaeology.ac

This site is more directed to areas:

• Articles: Publishing original articles from Kentish researchers, subject to approval of the Society’s Editor, supported by its editorial address & chosen subject areas and a record of a variety of subjects.
• Books: Publication online of complete books, approved and sponsored by KAS Publications Committee. Books on hand for inclusion from the first such (see advertisement page 10).
• Records: At present prepared tables - Names and dates of Canterbury Consistory Court Wills, Kentish dialect and proverbs/phrases.
• Collections on Discs: Collections of Library Bookstock, KAS visual records, Ordnance Survey collection maps, Researchers: Lists of researchers in history and archaeology willing to undertake paid work.