Kent local history groups
LOCAL HISTORY ENQUIRIES
If you ask a local history group for information at no cost to yourself, bear in mind the members respond because they like to help. Thanking them for their effort is a nice gesture, a stamped addressed envelope for snail mail replies is always appreciated. Some groups make a small charge; this may recompense the researcher for their efforts on your behalf, or it may be used to help the group provide a better service for its members. Rarely does the enquirer not get excellent value for their money.
Appledore Historical
Society
Ashford Archaeological & Historical Society
Ashford Borough Museum Society
Aylesford Society
Bearsted & District Local History Society
Bexley Archaeological Group
Bexley Civic Society
Bexley Historical Society
Biddenden Local History Society
Brenchley & Matfield Local History Society
Bridge & District History Society
Broadstairs Society
Bromley and West Kent Archaeological Group
Bromley Borough Local History Society
Canterbury Archaeological Society
Canterbury Archaeological Trust
Charing & District Local History Society
Chatham Dockyard Historical Society
Chatham Historical Society
Council for Kentish Archaeology
Crabble Corn Mill Trust
Cranbrook & District Local History Society
Crayford Manor House Historical and Archaeology Society
Dartford and District History Group
Dartford Historical and Antiquarian Society
Deal and Walmer Local History Society
Detling Society
Dover Archaeological Group
Friends of Dover Castle
Dover History Society
Friends of Dover Museum
Dover Roman Painted House Trust
Dover Transport Museum Society
Western Heights Preservation Society (Dover)
East Peckham Historical Society
Edenbridge & District History Society
Erith & Belvedere Local History Society
Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society
Faversham Society
Fawkham & District History Society
Folkestone & District Local History Society
Frittenden Historical Society
Gillingham & Rainham Local History Society
Goudhurst & Kilndown Local History Society
Gravesend Historical Society
Great Chart Society
Great Mongeham Society
Groombridge History Group
Hadlow Historical Society
Halling Local History Society
Hawkhurst Local History Society
Headcorn Local History Society
Herne Bay Historical Records Society
Herne and Broomfield Local History Group
Higham Village History Group
Historical Research Group of Sittingbourne
Horton Kirby & South Darenth Local History Society
Hythe Civic Society
Isle of Thanet Historical Society
Kemsing Historical & Art Society
Kent Archaeological Society
Kent Aviation Historical Research Society
Kent History Federation
Kent Postal History Group
Lamberhurst Local History Society
Lamorbey & Sidcup Local History Society
Leigh Historical Society
Lewisham Local History Society
Loose Area History Society
Lyminge Historical Society
Maidstone Area Archaeological Group
Maidstone Historical Society
Marden History Group
Margate Civic Society
Medway Military Research Group
Meopham Historical Society
Northfleet History Group
Orpington Historical Society
Orpington and District Archaeological Society
Otford & District History Society
Otham Society
Oxney Local History Group
Paddock Wood Historical Society
Plaxtol Local History Group
Rainham Historical Society
Ramsgate Society
Ringwould History Society
Romney Marsh Research Trust
Rusthall Local History Group
Sandgate Society
Sandwich Local History Society
Sevenoaks Historical Society
Sheppey Local History Society
Shoreham & District Historical Society
Shoreham Aircraft Museum
Shorne Local History Group
Sittingbourne Society
Smarden Local History Society
Snodland Historical Society
St Margarets History Society
Staplehurst Society
Stelling Minnis & Upper Hardres Historical Society
Tenterden & District Local History Society
Teston History Society
Three Suttons Society
Tonbridge Historical Society
Ulcombe History Society
Wateringbury Local History Society
Weald History Group
Wealden Iron Research Group
Whitstable Historical Society
Wingham Local History Society
Woodchurch Local and Family History
Wrotham Historical Society
Wye Historical Society
If your Kent local history group is not listed here please let me know.
If your group has a website and I haven't found it I would be delighted to link to it.
If you wish to contact a local history group and their details are not here, email David Brown.
To send David Brown an email click here, putting LHL as the subject.