Events

1610: Murder at the Playhouse
1643: The Civil War comes to Tonbridge
1740: The Medway Navigation
1813: The Great Galvanic Battery
1829: The Penshurst Canal
1842: A criminal caught
1842: The coming of the railway
1849 & 1854: Cholera comes to Tonbridge
1850: Dickens and the Telegraph
1850: Tonbridge Races
1913: Votes for Women
1930: Tonbridge mourns its R101 victim

Meetings

11th September 2025 at 7:45pm
Carve their Name withn Pride: Female Secret Agents in WW2
Speaker: Juliet Pattinson

9 October 2025 at 7:45pm
The Discovery of Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours
Speaker: Dr Owen Emmerson

8 November 2025 at 2:30pm
1. Wren's City Churches
2. Historic Greenwich Village
Speaker: David Carder
To book contact: secretary@tonbridgehistory.org.uk

11 December 2025 at 7:45pm
Oh No It Isn't A History of Pantomime
Speaker: Pete Allen

12 February 2026 at 7:45pm
The Commonweath War Graves Commission
Speaker: from the CWGC

12 March 2026 at 7:45pm
The Neanderthal Archaeology of the English Channel Region
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Pope

10 April 2026 at 7:30pm
Annual General Meeting followed by
Murder, Madness & Mathem? - The Belgian Royal Family
Speaker: Melanie Gibson-Barton