Kent Archives Talk | The Legend of the Unconquered County

The Kentish motto, invicta, is a Latin word meaning undefeated or unconquered. But is Kent truly the unconquered county?
James Lloyd gained a Cambridge doctorate for research into local government in Anglo-Saxon England. This talk was recorded in April 2022 and a transcript can be found at bit.ly/3ysOlll
Kent Archives hold the largest collection of historic material relating to the ancient county of Kent dating back to 699 AD, from the earliest charters written on sheepskin to the present state of the art digital images. Our archive and local history collections tell the story of Kent and beyond, and are a focal point for the county’s heritage and culture, most of which you can access when you visit the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone.
While the archives consist of original records, often handwritten and unique, created in the course of human activities, the local history collection consists largely of printed material and includes published original records, as well as printed books. The collections tell the stories of people’s lives and their communities through diaries, eyewitness accounts, records of crime and punishment, titles to property, newspapers, photographs, maps and posters, and more.
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[@mikeyratcliff3400]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for this, born in Canterbury, lived my formative years in Sandwich, and currently living on a narrowboat in Oxfordshire i feel my roots have been thoroughly untwisted and debunked to the current understanding of the origins of all this patriotism that we were given ,probably quite innocently, at school... I salute you sir and all the researchers that made this possible!

[@KentLibrariesArchives]

Thank you for the lovely comment, you may also enjoy James Lloyd's other talk The White Horse of Kent found on our channel, at th-cam.com/video/bFCpRq-sk8Y/w-d-xo.html

[@biffa1234100]

Really you want to try being proud of this when you come from Gillingham or anywhere else in the MEDWAY TOWNS you can insert your elitist patriotism up your bottom brother X

[@KarlHessey-db6mf]

Kent kent kent kent

[@jeandepaul]

bunch of kents

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Kent can , Kent can't

[@jeandepaul]

Ken can Can Can, Kent can't Can Can