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UNCONQUERED: THE STORY OF KENT AND ITS LIEUTENANCY

by David McDine

Published by The Allan Willett Foundation. 1st. 2014

Slightly better than very good condition. Beacons flared across Kent in Elizabeth I's reign to warn of the Armada's approach. now the beacons celebrate great events like Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. And throughout the centuries the link has been the Lieutenancy, originally responsible for the defence of the Frontline County and now keeping alive the unique Spirit of Kent - still Unconquered. Large format. Dark blue imitation leather cloth boards with silver titles. Colour photos. 249 pages plus list of Lieutenants and Index.

SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Contained in dark blue imitation leather cloth slipcase which has a few marks and scuffs.

ISBN: 9780992834807
Stock no. 1830213

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Contents

  • Foreword by His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent KG
  • Introduction by Allan Willet CMG CVO, former Lord-Lieutenant of Kent
  • ONE Guardian, Garden and Royal Gateway
  • TWO Defending the Frontline County
  • THREE 'The Spanish Did Intend to Land at Dungeness'
  • FOUR 'The Price of Peace - Eternal Vigilance'
  • FIVE Musters and Mulberry Trees
  • SIX 'The Unsettled State of Christendom'
  • SEVEN Civil War Comes to Kent
  • EIGHT The Amorous Peer and Return of the King
  • NINE The King and the Rude Kentish Fisherman
  • TEN The Three Dukes of Dorset
  • ELEVEN 'This Glorious Day for the County'
  • TWELVE Riots and an Early Dad's Army
  • THIRTEEN Reform - and War
  • FOURTEEN Spitfires and the Spirit of Kent
  • FIFTEEN Enter the Ladies
  • SIXTEEN 'The Very Model of a Modern Lord-Lieutenant'
  • SEVENTEEN The Eyes and Ears of the Lord-Lieutenant
  • EIGHTEEN The Lieutenancy Today
  • Appendices
  • Acknowledgements

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