"Ready for to go to the sea": maintaining fishing families in Late Medieval Hythe

This article is one of the detailed case studies in this volume on maritime Kent. It draws on the exceptionally detailed local taxation records for 15th-century Hythe to demonstrate the continuing importance of the town's fishing industry and the place of key families in this occupation and more broadly in this urban society

More continuity than change: Kent's Tudor almshouses

As Nigel Goose and others have noted, early modern almshouses have received far less scholarly attention than medieval hospitals. This is beginning to be addressed and this study of Kent's Tudor almshouses shows the importance of regional studies to address this transitional period and the balance between continuity and change in the provision of institutional care for the poor, infirm and elderly in England