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Theses about Canterbury

and Kent

MA by Research, MPhil and PhD theses from Kent Universities and beyond

Here are some of the theses available on aspects of Kent and Canterbury history downloadable from the British Library's e-theses repository EThOS, Canterbury Christ Church University's Research Repository, University of Kent's Academic Repository (KAR), and the University of Leicester's Centre for English Local History,  A list of thesis titles (which include theses on aspects of Kent and Canterbury history) is also available on the IHR BHO website but not downloadable. 

The following theses are hyperlinked where possible or can be found at the online repositories below. They are only a selection of titles and you are advised to search the repositories for additional theses.

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British Library E-theses environment EThOS  
 

Canterbury Christ Church University CCCU Repository  
 

University of Kent Repository KAR 
 

University of Leicester Centre for English Local History
 

Insitute of Historical Research IHR BHO (which include theses on aspects of Kent and Canterbury history) is on the

Acheson, Robert. "The development of religious separatism in the diocese of Canterbury, 1590-1660." PhD diss., University of Kent, 1983. EThOS.

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Andrewes, Jane. "Land, family and community in Wingham and its environs: an economic and social history of rural society in East Kent from C.1450-1640." University of Kent, 1991. EThOS.

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Andrews, F.W.G. "The effect of the coming of the railway on the towns and villages of East Kent, 1841-1919"

University of Kent, 1993. EThOS.

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Antonini, F. "An oral history of the early years of Christ Church College, Canterbury." Masters Thesis. CCCU, 2012.

 

Baker, Jean. "Theatre in the provinces in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with special reference to Sarah Baker in Kent"  University of Kent, 2000. EThOS.

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Bartram, Claire. "The reading and writing practices of the Kentish gentry: the emergence of a Protestant identity in Elizabethan Kent." University of Kent, 2005. Access at University of Kent.

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Basford, Hazel. "Kent VAD: the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the First World War."

University of Kent, 2004. Access at University of Kent.

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Bates, Andrew. "Making the invisible visible: new survey and investigation of the Iron Age Hillforts of Bigbury and Oldbury in Kent." University of Kent, 2017, EThOS.

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Betts, Philip. "Farming and landholding in a Wealden parish: a study of farmers in Frittenden 1800–1870." University of Kent, 1999. Access at University of Kent.

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Blanning, Elizabeth. "Landscape, settlement and materiality: aspects of rural life in Kent during the Roman period." University of Kent, 2014, EThOS

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Bower, Jacqueline. "Deal and the Deal boatmen, c.1840–c.1880." University of Kent, 1989. Access at University of Kent.

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Byrne, Katherine. "Identity, memory and popular politics in sixteenth-century Kent." 2018. University of Kent, Restricted.

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Caiazza, Melanie. "Representations and Experiences of Place: The Islands of Sheppey in the late medieval and early modern period." University of Kent, 2009 EThOS.

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Charles, Alison. "Deciphering the 'Dutch houses': Netherlandish architectural influence in East Kent, 1550-1750."

University of Kent, 2017, Restricted.

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Catharina Clement. "Political and religious reactions in the Medway towns of Rochester and Chatham during the English Revolution, 1640-1660." PhD diss., CCCU, 2013.

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Connor, Meriel. "John Stone, monk of Christ Church, Canterbury and his Chronicle, 1417-1472." Royal Holloway, 2001

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Cooper, Cyril. "The impact on the county of Kent of the French Revolution, 1789–1802." University of Kent, 2004. EThOS.

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Cordle, Celia. "Hop cultivation and marketing: Wealden Kent and Southwark, 1744–2000." Leicester, 2007, Restricted.

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Croft, Justin. "The custumals of the Cinque Ports c.1290 - c.1500: studies in the cultural production of the urban record."

Kent, 1997, EThOS.

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Crouch, Dawn. "Westgate-on-Sea, 1865–1940: fashionable watering-place and London satellite, exclusive resort and a place of schools." University of Kent 1999. EThOS.

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Davie, Neil. "Custom and conflict in a Wealden village: Pluckley 1550-1700." Oxford, 1988, EThOS.

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Davison, Anne. "The agrarian economy of Romney Marsh and its hinterland, with specific reference to the Knatchbull estate, c.1730-90." CCCU, 2011 Access at CCCU.

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Dimmock, Spencer. "Class and the social transformation of a Late Medieval small town : Lydd c. 1450-1550." University of Kent 1998, EThOS.

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Dixon, Mary. "Economy and society in Dover 1509-1640." University of Kent, 1992, EThOS

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Donaldson, Peter. "The memorialisation of the Great War in Folkestone, Canterbury and Dover, 1918–1924." University of Kent, 2005 EThOS.

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Draper, Gillian. "Literacy and its transmission in the Romney Marsh area c.1150-1550." University of Kent, 2004. Restricted.

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Dudley, Alden. "Knole: an architectural and social history of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s house, 1456-1538."

Sussex, 2011, EThOS.

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Durkin, Graham. "The civic government and economy of Elizabethan Canterbury." Kent, 2001. Access at University of Kent.

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Eastlake, Elizabeth. "Redressing the balance: Boxley 1146-1538, a lesser Cistercian house in southern England."

Winchester, 2015.

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Everett, Vaughan. "Lords, land and livelihood: a study into the estate management of the lesser lay tenants-in-chief in Kent before the Black Death c.1246-1348." Kent 1995. Access at University of Kent.

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Field, Kevin. "Doctors of the workhouse: a study of medical care in three poor law unions in South-East Kent, 1834–1875."

Masters Thesis. CCCU, 2018.

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Finch, Andrew J.  "Crime and marriage in three late medieval ecclesiastical jurisdictions: Cerisy, Rochester and Hereford."

York, 1988, EThOS.

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Finucane,Thomas. "Manifestations of national identities in 19th-century Kent." Kent, 2004. EThOS.

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Fleming, Peter W. "The character and private concerns of the gentry of Kent 1422-1509." Swansea, 1985, EThOS.

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Flisher, Lorraine. "Cranbrook, Kent, and its neighbourhood area, c. 1570-1670." Greenwich, 2003, EThOS.

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Gainey, Robert. "Faith, service and ownership: the life and changing identity of Eastbridge Hospital throughout the Reformation." Masters Thesis. CCCU, 2015.

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Green, Maureen. "Hayle Mill. How a small papermaking company thrived in the 19th century." London, 2011, Restricted

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Grussenmeyer, Jon-Mark. "Cardinal Kemp: the last Lancastrian statesman." Kent, 2018 Access at UoK

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Harper-Bill, Christopher. "An edition of the Register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1486-1500, with critical introduction." KCL, 1997 EThOS.

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Heath, Diane. "The bestiary in Canterbury monastic culture, 1093-1360." Kent, 2015, Access at University of Kent.

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Hingley, Sheila. "The Oxindens, Warlys and Elham Parish Library: a family library and its place in print culture in east Kent."  2004, Access at University of Kent.

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Huitson, Toby. "Hidden Spaces, Obscure Purposes: The Medieval Ecclesiastical Staircase, Gallery and Upper Chamber in East Kent." Kent, 2008, Restricted.

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Jones, Karen.  "Gender, crime and the local courts in Kent, 1460-1560." Greenwich, 2001, EThOS

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Joyce, Peter. "The Reverend Caleb Parfect: person, power, publishing." Masters Thesis. CCCU, 2019.

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Klevntis, Alison. "Whodunnit? Grave-robbery in early medieval northern and western Europe." Cambridge, 2009, Restricted.

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Leach, Andrew. "Earls, knights and bastards: a comparative study of the fortunes and misfortunes of two aristocratic families of England, c.1135–1267." Masters Thesis. CCCU, 2019.

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Leach, Avril. "Being one body: everyday institutional culture in Canterbury and Maidstone corporations, 1600-1660." PhD diss., University of Kent, 2019.

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Le Baigue, Ann. "Negotiating religious change: the Later Reformation in East Kent parishes, 1559-1625." PhD diss., University of Kent, 2019.

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Lee, Paul. "Monastic and secular religion and devotional reading in late medieval Dartford and west Kent."

Kent, 1998. EThOS.

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Lutton, Rob. "Heterodox and orthodox piety in Tenterden, c. 1420 - c. 1540." Kent, 1997 EThOS.

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Maslin, Simon. "The landscape and ecology of the Anglo-Saxon Conversion: a multiproxy environ-mental and geoarchaeological contexturalisation of the high-status settlement at Lyminge, Kent." Reading, 2017, EThOS

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McNee, Barbara Louisa. "The potter’s legacy: production, use and deposition of pottery in Kent, from the middle Bronze Age to the early Iron Age." Southampton, 2012, EThOS

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Mills, Matthew. "Behold your mother: the Virgin Mary in English monasticism, c. 1050-c. 1200 [Canterbury]."

Oxford, 2016 via EThOS

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Minihan, Gemma. "Ightham Mote in the fourteenth century: the lived experience of Sir Thomas Couen (d.1372)." Southampton, 2015 EThOS.

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Moon, John. "Managing jurisdictions at Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the High Middle Ages 1285-1331."

Kent, 2012, EThOS.

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Mundill, Robin. "The Jews in England 1272–1290." St Andrews, 1988, EThOS.

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Newell, Valerie. "Tactical litigation and the ideology of the law in late Tudor and early Stuart Kent, c.1580-1630." Kent 2001. Access at University of Kent.

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O’Hara, Diana. "Sixteenth-century courtship in the diocese of Canterbury." Kent, 1995 EThOS

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Ollenshaw, Zoe. "The civic elite of Sandwich, Kent 1568-1640." Kent, 1990, Access at University of Kent.

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O’Riordan, Joe. "The end of the Marian Restoration and the early Elizabethan Reformation in Canterbury c.1557–c.1565." Masters Thesis. CCCU, 2017.

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Palmer, Stuart. "Politics, corporation and commonwealth: the early Reformation in Canterbury, c.1500- 1565."

Kent, 2016. Access at University of Kent.

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Pantin, Frank. "Finances and government of Canterbury, 18th to mid 19th century." Kent, 1998. EThOS.

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Petrie, Susan. "Sir Roger Twysden, 1597-1672: a re-appraisal of his life and writings." Kent, 2006, Access at University of Kent.

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Pittman, Susan. "Elizabethan and Jacobean deer parks in Kent." University of Kent 2011, Restricted.

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Price, Christopher. "Mr Ward's Commission : manners, musicians, and music at the Canterbury Catch Club." Durham University. 2018.

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Reid, Thomas. "The clergy of the diocese of Canterbury in the seventeenth century." University of Kent, 2011

Access at University of Kent.

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Richardson, Catherine. "The meanings of space in society and drama: perceptions of domestic life and domestic tragedy c.1550-1600." University of Kent, 1999, EThOS.

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Rowlstone, Stephen. "Religion, politics, and polemic in 17th-century England: the public career of Henry Burton, 1625-1628."University of Kent, 2005, Restricted access.

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Semple, Rory. "Dover’s ‘bunker mentality’: Dover its people and its tunnels in two world wars." University of Kent, 2005 EThOS.

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Shah, Nabeela. "Aspects of order and disorder in Kent, with special reference to four parishes: Chart Sutton, Sutton Valance, East Sutton and Willesborough, c.1590-1620." University of Kent, 1995, Access at University of Kent.

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Simpson, Paula. "Custom and conflict: disputes over tithe in the Diocese of Canterbury, 1501-1600." University of Kent, 1997, EThOS.

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Stansfield, Michael. "The Holland family, Dukes of Exeter, Earls of Kent and Huntingdon, 1352-1475." Oxford, 1987 Access: EThOS.

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Sullivan, Shane. "A just method of justice: informal ordering in Kent, 1700–1833." University of Kent, 2005. Access at University of Kent.

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Sweetinburgh, Sheila. "The role of the hospital in medieval Kent, c.1080-c.1560." University of Kent, 1998, EThOS.

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Taylor, S. "Women, work and life cycle in Canterbury, c.1200 to c.1320." CCCU, 2015.

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Tomlin, Annette. "The Dover Bible: a Romanesque giant Bible in its cultural context." Kent, 2007. Access at University of Kent.

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Warmington, Eleanor. "Governance, the implementation of social policy and the maintenance of order in Faversham, Kent c.1570-1640." CCCU, 2012. Access at Augustine House Library, CCCU.

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Weekes, Jake. "Styles of Romano-British cremation and associated deposition in South East England." University of Kent 2005, EThOS.

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White, Sarah. "Procedure and legal arguments in the court of Canterbury, c. 1193-1300." St Andrews, 2018 Restricted.

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Wood, Cindy.  "Cage chantries and late medieval religion c.1366-1555." Winchester, 2010, Restricted.

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Wood, Laura Mary. "Vowesses in the Province of Canterbury, c. 1450-1540." Royal Holloway, 2017. EThOS

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Worthen, Hannah. "The experience of war widows in mid seventeenth-century England, with special reference to Kent and Sussex." Leicester, 2017, EThOS.

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Wyatt, Gillian. "Social networks and relationships in early modern Thanet c.1560-c.1620." University of Kent, 2009, Access at University of Kent.

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Young, Charlotte. “The gentry are sequestered all”: a study of English Civil War sequestration." Royal Holloway, 2019.

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