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Historic Tonbridge

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Tonbridge Historical Society

About the People

  • Eliza Acton – poet and cookery writer
  • Anna Children (Anna Atkins)
  • Jane Austen’s Tonbridge relations
  • Other Austen connections
  • The Children family
  • Martin Hardie
  • Memorials and gravstones inscriptons
  • Sir Andrew Judde
  • Vicesimus Knox II
  • Sir Thomas Smythe
  • Colonel Stephens
  • Tonbridge cricketers
  • Tonbridge men who died in WWI
  • Volunteer personnel (VADs) in WW1
  • WW1 war graves in Tonbridge Cemetery
  • Tonbridge men, women & children who died in World War 2 and later conflicts
  • Tonbridge photographers
  • The Town Wardens
  • Russell White – first Bishop of Tonbridge
  • The Woodgates
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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

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