Kent Digital Maps Symposium

Presenters: Carolyn Oulton et al.
Event: Kent Digital Maps Symposium
Presented on: Feb 12, 2020

Prof Carolyn Oulton, Canterbury Christ Church University. ‘Introduction to the Digital Kent Map: Getting lost in Dickens’s Kent.’

Prof Peter Vujakovic, Canterbury Christ Church University. ‘Literary geographies of Kentish taskscapes: reflections on Donald Maxwell's The Enchanted Road and Unknown Kent, and Hilaire Belloc’s The Old Road.

Elizabeth Waterman-Scrase, Canterbury Christ Church University. ‘Sights, sounds and smells of the past: old maps (and other evidence) used to re-create historically accurate landscapes in creative writing.’

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Dr Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christ Church University.  ‘Henry James and Hever Castle.’

Caroline Millar, University of Kent. W. G. Sebald, Pocahontas and Me: finding a voice along the Saxon Shore.’

Jaquie Stamp, Canterbury Christ Church University.  ‘Hoodening and the Hooden Horse; an East Kent tradition.’

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Ken Moffat, Simon Langton Boys’ Grammar School. ‘Beauty, joy and billiard balls. Keats, Canterbury 1817.’

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