Kent Libraries

The Summer Reading Challenge is open to all primary school aged children and is designed for all reading abilities. Children can sign up for free at any library in Kent, including at one of our mobile library stops, from Saturday 9 July.

Find out more about how to join in for free, take a look at our upcoming events and online activities at bit.ly/Gadgeteers2022

Listen to an extract of bestseller turned this summer's hottest film, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Listen now with BorrowBox’s latest feature – the best titles without the queues. Head to our website to find out how to borrow this title for free with the BorrowBox app and your library card! kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/ebooks-eaudiobooks-emagazines-enewspapers

Find out more about Playground – an exciting programme empowering the creativity of very young children and their families. Led by a team of brilliant artists, families with babies and young children are sharing creative play in libraries and children's centres across Kent.

Find a session near you at kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries/baby-and-toddler-activities

We are also so pleased to share that Playground has become a National Portfolio Organisation with Arts Council England, which will allow us to work with even more children and families across Kent, including in children’s centres, special educational needs settings and with refugee families. Thank you to our amazing artists, mentors, supporters and above all our creative babies and their families!

Baby Playground

Music designed to extend and support Baby Playground sessions and the Baby Playground book. Music by Jeremy Harrison. Illustrations by Nicola Flower.

Playground is a Kent Libraries initiative, funded by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with the University of Kent and an ensemble of brilliant artists, academics and other professionals. Our focus has been on children aged 0 to 24 months from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds, particularly families with babies born during lockdown who have been significantly affected by the pandemic with no or limited social contact other than with their immediate families. Playground immerses them and those who care for them in high quality, creative activity that is deeply engaging and transformative.

Find out more about Playground and other activities for young children at kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries/baby-and-toddler-activities

Read a case study on Playground at local.gov.uk/case-studies/playground-offers-gentle-creative-play-sessions-babies#how-is-the-new-approach-being-sustained

Baby Playground

Music designed to extend and support Baby Playground sessions and the Baby Playground book. Music by Jeremy Harrison. Illustrations by Nicola Flower.

Playground is a Kent Libraries initiative, funded by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with the University of Kent and an ensemble of brilliant artists, academics and other professionals. Our focus has been on children aged 0 to 24 months from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds, particularly families with babies born during lockdown who have been significantly affected by the pandemic with no or limited social contact other than with their immediate families. Playground immerses them and those who care for them in high quality, creative activity that is deeply engaging and transformative.

Find out more about Playground and other activities for young children at kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries/baby-and-toddler-activities

Read a case study on Playground at local.gov.uk/case-studies/playground-offers-gentle-creative-play-sessions-babies#how-is-the-new-approach-being-sustained

Baby Playground

Music designed to extend and support Baby Playground sessions and the Baby Playground book. Music by Jeremy Harrison. Illustrations by Nicola Flower.

Playground is a Kent Libraries initiative, funded by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with the University of Kent and an ensemble of brilliant artists, academics and other professionals. Our focus has been on children aged 0 to 24 months from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds, particularly families with babies born during lockdown who have been significantly affected by the pandemic with no or limited social contact other than with their immediate families. Playground immerses them and those who care for them in high quality, creative activity that is deeply engaging and transformative.

Find out more about Playground and other activities for young children at kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries/baby-and-toddler-activities

Read a case study on Playground at local.gov.uk/case-studies/playground-offers-gentle-creative-play-sessions-babies#how-is-the-new-approach-being-sustained

Baby Playground

Music designed to extend and support Baby Playground sessions and the Baby Playground book. Music by Jeremy Harrison. Illustrations by Nicola Flower.

Playground is a Kent Libraries initiative, funded by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with the University of Kent and an ensemble of brilliant artists, academics and other professionals. Our focus has been on children aged 0 to 24 months from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds, particularly families with babies born during lockdown who have been significantly affected by the pandemic with no or limited social contact other than with their immediate families. Playground immerses them and those who care for them in high quality, creative activity that is deeply engaging and transformative.

Find out more about Playground and other activities for young children at kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries/baby-and-toddler-activities

Read a case study on Playground at local.gov.uk/case-studies/playground-offers-gentle-creative-play-sessions-babies#how-is-the-new-approach-being-sustained

Baby Playground

Music designed to extend and support Baby Playground sessions and the Baby Playground book. Music by Jeremy Harrison. Illustrations by Nicola Flower.

Playground is a Kent Libraries initiative, funded by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with the University of Kent and an ensemble of brilliant artists, academics and other professionals. Our focus has been on children aged 0 to 24 months from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds, particularly families with babies born during lockdown who have been significantly affected by the pandemic with no or limited social contact other than with their immediate families. Playground immerses them and those who care for them in high quality, creative activity that is deeply engaging and transformative.

Find out more about Playground and other activities for young children at kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries/baby-and-toddler-activities

Read a case study on Playground at local.gov.uk/case-studies/playground-offers-gentle-creative-play-sessions-babies#how-is-the-new-approach-being-sustained

Baby Playground

Music designed to extend and support Baby Playground sessions and the Baby Playground book. Music by Jeremy Harrison. Illustrations by Nicola Flower.

Playground is a Kent Libraries initiative, funded by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with the University of Kent and an ensemble of brilliant artists, academics and other professionals. Our focus has been on children aged 0 to 24 months from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds, particularly families with babies born during lockdown who have been significantly affected by the pandemic with no or limited social contact other than with their immediate families. Playground immerses them and those who care for them in high quality, creative activity that is deeply engaging and transformative.

Find out more about Playground and other activities for young children at kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries/clubs-and-activities-in-libraries/baby-and-toddler-activities

Read a case study on Playground at local.gov.uk/case-studies/playground-offers-gentle-creative-play-sessions-babies#how-is-the-new-approach-being-sustained

Dr John Bulaitis, Canterbury Christ Church University, sheds light on an often forgotten but fascinating piece of Kentish history dubbed the Tithe War by the national press.

During the 1880s and again during the 1930s, Kentish farming communities fought the tithe, a payment to the Church and other tithe owners dating back to medieval times. They confronted bailiffs, disrupted auctions and blockaded farms to prevent seizure of stock for tithe non-payment.

Dr Bulaitis' talk focuses on two leading protagonists, Edward Peterson whose support of the tithe began in 1886 after he served an order to seize sheep from a farm in Smarden that led to the imprisonment of a local farmer, and Frank Allen, the tithe collector at Canterbury Cathedral who became the main organiser of the National Tithe Payers’ Association, which animated the fight against the tithe in the 1930s.

A transcript of this talk can be found at bit.ly/3NOAFoO

Find our guide to using tithe records at kentarchives.org.uk/collections/tithes/

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