Nigel Yates, ed Kent in the Twentieth hundred years (Kent History Project, 6) Rochester, N Y: Boydell & Brewer. 2001 Pp xxiv, 418 $9000 ISBN 0-85115-5871-1
The shelter of this book is somewhat ambiguous and unattractive, depicting a promotional photograph for Larkfield Leisure midmost point opened in 1981. It could be anywhere, and that is probably what it is meant to imply. For although the work naturally draws attention to the specificities of Kent a recurring theme is that the shire has been firmly situated within the major forces that shaped twentieth-century Britain,