Bibliography

If you have questions related to the history of our area, please send us a message using the form on the main research page. Many of these books are available through our shop page. Prices, and how to order can be found there. Some of these books are now out of print, but we include them here in case copies can be found on-line or in libraries.

Title	Author	Published	ISBN	Pages
Sittingbourne (Archive Photography Series)	Ken & Ann Fosbraey	Chalford 1995	0-7524-0303-6	128
Sittingbourne and Milton - An Illustrated History	Dr Pat Bellingham	SAWD Books 1996	1-872-489-16-8	256
Sittingbourne & District - A Pictorial History	Cordell & Lee	Phillimore, 1989	0-8503-713-5	120
Sittingbourne in Old Photographs	Eric Swain	Sutton 1989	0-86299-543-4	160
Sittingbourne & Milton Regis Past and Present	John Clancy	Sutton, 1999	0-7509-2297-4	128
Strolling Through Milstead	Lena Jordan	Regent, 2001		120
The Story of Sittingbourne & Milton Regis	John Clancy	Sutton, 2002	0-7509-2984-7	158
The Long Gone Cinemas of Swale (Kent)	John Clancy	Mercia, 2003	0-946406-54-5	71
Sittingbourne - A History	John Clancy	Phillimore, 2007	978-1-86077-462-1	116
Sittingbourne Through Time	Robert Turcan	Amberley, 2009	978-1-84868-5208	96
The Story of Gore Court House and Estate, Tunstall	Helen Allinson	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2006	978-1-911662-00-6	23
The Inns & Pubs of Sittingbourne and Milton	Helen Allinson	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2010	978-1-911662-01-3	139
Family Businesses of Sittingbourne	Helen Allinson	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2010	978-1-911662-02-0	91
More Family Businesses of Sittingbourne	Helen Allinson	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2013	978-1-911662-04-4	350
Sittingbourne High Street - A Historical Insight, Vol 1	Helen Allinson et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2012	978-1-911662-03-7	81
Historic Buildings and Grand Houses of Sittingbourne	Helen Allinson et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2013	978-1-911662-05-1	135
A History of Sittingbourne's Co-operative Society	Helen Allinson	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2014	978-1-911662-06-8	84
The Spicer Homes, Bell Road	John Clancy	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2014	978-1-911662-07-5	24
A Look at Key Street's Past	Helen Allinson et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2014	978-1-911662-08-2	94
Inns, Taverns and Pubs of Sitt. and Dist. (3rd Ed)	Helen Allinson et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2014	978-1-911662-09-9	267
The Rise and Fall of Beat Groups in Sittingbourne	Allen Whitnell	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2015	978-1-911662-10-5	263
Sittingbourne High Street - A Historical Insight, Vol 2	Michael H Peters et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2016	978-1-911662-11-2	578
Wartime Heroes of Borden Grammar Shc.Remembered	Sally Jenkins	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2016	978-1-911662-12-9	263
Sittingbourne in the Second World War	Helen Allinson et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2016	978-1-911662-13-6	278
A Sittingbourne Miscellany	Terry Fallon et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2017	978-1-911662-14-3	199
A Walk Through Sittingbourne in Days Gone By	Percy Hubbard ed. Whitnell	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2018	978-1-911662-15-0	41
The Story of the Convent of the Nativity School, Sitt.	John Mount	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2019	978-1-911662-16-7	187
East Street, Sittingbourne - A Historical Insight	Helen Allinson et al.	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2019	978-1-911662-17-4	491
Bredgar - A History of a Kentish Parish 2nd Ed	Helen Allinson	Synjon, 2013	978-0-904373-15-8	318
A Short History of the Court Hall and its role	John Clancy	MCH, 2014		36
The Story of Brenchley House	John Clancy et al.	HRGS, 2006		119
A History of Murston	Bryan Clark	Amberley, 2011	978-1849-985	157
Borden Past Times	Borden Heritage	Borden, 2015
A History of the William Barrow Trust	Helen Allinson	WB Charity, 2017		144
Bobbing - 2000 years of History	Michael Fairley	Mirfir, 2007	978-0954-367-1-8	117
Life in the Workhouse - Milton Union	Helen Allinson	Synjon, 2005	0904 370-6	136
The Church and Village of Tunstall	Arthur A Midwinter	Meresborough	0948 193 697	72
Tunstall - History of a Kent Parish	Helen Allinson et al.	Synjon 2015	978-09041-6-5	368
Before the NHS - Sittingbourne's Health Care 1900-1949	Helen Allinson	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2020	978-1-911662-18-1	130
The History of Sittingbourne Mill	Richard Marsh & Steve Ralph	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2021	978-1-911662-19-8	115
Sittingbourne: Community & Leisure in the 1960s	Ed. A Whitnell	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2021	978-1-911662-20-4	160
Diary of the Air Battle over Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Michael & Charles Fairley	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2021	978-1-911662-21-1	98
My Life in Milton Regis Between the Wars	Alice Richards	Sittingbourne Heritage Museum, 2022	978-1-911662-23-5	109

We also have a large number of short essays on various subjects that have been published over the years in the Museum’s Quarterly Journal. A list is included here, and copies of these are free to subscribing members, if supplied electronically, or for a small fee otherwise.

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