28-398: Alexander Kent may refer to: Alexander James Kent (born 1977), British cartographer and co-author of The Red Atlas Alexander Kent, pseudonym of Douglas Reeman (1924–2017), British writer of historical naval novels Alex Kent, former bass guitarist of Say Anything (band) Alexander Kent, namesake of Kentland, Indiana , United States,
56-683: A Heritage Lottery funded project to discover the life of St Eanswythe , a local seventh-century saint, as well as advising on geospatial projects for the UK Commission for UNESCO and on Soviet mapping at the Centre for the Changing Character of War at Pembroke College , Oxford. In 2023, he took up his current role in leading the Coastal Connections Project for World Monuments Fund and English Heritage ,
84-531: A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a senior fellow of the (UK) Higher Education Academy and in 2022, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts . Kent's scholarly contributions have focused upon cartographic aesthetics and topographic mapping , particularly Soviet maps , which led to the publication of The Red Atlas in 2017 ( University of Chicago Press ). Co-authored with John Davies,
112-850: A committee member of the Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps since 2008 and founded the Ian Mumford Award for excellence in original cartographic research by students for the British Cartographic Society in 2015. Kent became a Fellow of the British Cartographic Society in 2002 and of the Royal Geographical Society in 2006. In 2011, he was appointed deputy national delegate for
140-439: A global initiative to share and develop strategies for addressing the impacts of climate change on coastal heritage sites worldwide, and became an honorary Reader at CCCU. Kent joined the British Cartographic Society in 2000 and the Society of Cartographers shortly after. He served as president of the British Cartographic Society from 2015 to 2017 and has been Editor of The Cartographic Journal since 2014. Kent has been
168-456: A later date. Lyminge has been a focus of archaeological work for over a half a century. In December 1953 two inhumation burials were discovered there by workmen working for farming contractors, and subsequent excavations led by Alan Warhurst resulted in the discovery of a 6th-century Jutish cemetery ( grid reference TR 1638 4169 ) containing 44 graves. The grave assemblages were remarkable, although not unusual for this period, and contained
196-545: A lot of high status jewellery, weapons such as spear-heads, swords and shield bosses and some rare glass claw beakers of exceptional quality and condition. There was a major archaeological find in October 2012 when the foundations of an Anglo-Saxon feasting hall were excavated on the village green by a team from the University of Reading , led by Gabor Thomas, working with local archaeologists and villagers and funded by
224-580: A paper in the Society's journal Sheetlines in 2005. Davies and Kent embarked on a period of joint research and collaboration with the aim of finding out more about Soviet mapping during the Cold War , which they went on to describe as 'the biggest cartographic story never told'. After publishing a series of academic papers, the Bodleian Library at Oxford invited them to submit a proposal for
252-560: A piece of wire. The site also yielded quantities of glass, some evidently scavenged from nearby Roman sites and melted down to make glass bead jewellery. Lyminge is home to Sibton Park Cricket Club who play in Division 1 of the Kent Cricket League and have an active Junior Section which caters for boys and girls from a wide area in and around Lyminge. The Elham Valley Railway ran from Canterbury to Folkestone through
280-628: A short book as an introduction to the subject and eventually offered the project to the University of Chicago Press . The Red Atlas was published in 2017. Nature called the book a "glorious homage" and it featured as the Book of the Week in THE , where Jerry Brotton described it as "Brilliant... the best kind of cartographic history". Mark Monmonier praised the book as "carefully researched, well-written, and exquisitely designed and printed, it's perhaps
308-604: A town See also [ edit ] Alexandra of Kent , a member of the British royal family [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Kent&oldid=1190612863 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732801510904336-564: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alexander James Kent Alexander James Kent FBCartS FRGS FRSA FSA SFHEA (born 24 August 1977) is a British cartographer , geographer and academic, currently serving as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association . He leads the Coastal Connections Project for World Monuments Fund and English Heritage and
364-585: Is honorary Reader in Cartography and Geographical Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) and also a senior research associate of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford . From 2015 to 2017, Kent served as president of the British Cartographic Society and has held fellowships of the Royal Geographical Society since 2006 and of the British Cartographic Society since 2002. In 2020, he became
392-511: The Arts and Humanities Research Council . Guided by a ground-penetrating radar survey the hall was identified as measuring 21 metres by 8.5 metres and would have been large enough to hold at least 60 people. A decorated and gilded horse harness, broken in antiquity, was found in the foundations together with pieces of jewellery, bone combs and a well-preserved manicure set – three little bronze rods, probably for cleaning fingernails or ears, strung on to
420-747: The Channel Tunnel , on the road passing through the Elham Valley . At the 2011 Census the population of Etchinghill was included. The Nailbourne stream begins in the village and flows north through the Valley, to become one of the tributary streams of the Great Stour . The hamlet of Ottinge lies to the NE on the road to Elham . Lyminge is home to the Grade II* listed Sibton Park, now owned by
448-693: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC , the universities of Oxford , Cambridge and Manchester , and at Eton College , where they were invited by the Slavonic Society in 2019. Martin Davis, one of Kent's PhD students at Canterbury Christ Church University , has researched the holdings of Soviet military city plans in libraries around the world and produced a detailed analysis of
476-657: The University of Kent . Kent became head of the Cartographic Unit at the School of Geography, University of Southampton before his appointment as Senior Lecturer in Geography and GIS at Canterbury Christ Church University . Kent took up his role as Reader in Cartography and Geographic Information Science in 2015, where his projects involved the digital reconstruction of Anglo-Saxon Folkestone for
504-548: The Holiday Property Bond but previously a school. The village is surrounded by farmland and ancient forests. There is a wide variety of flora and fauna in the surrounding area, including badgers, various species of deer along with wild boar which are thought to have escaped from farmed populations. Lyminge was a royal centre of the Kingdom of Kent of Anglo-Saxon England and a church was founded in 633. One of
532-734: The UK National Delegate to the ICA General Assembly and in 2023 was elected an ICA Vice President. In 2020, Kent became a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London . He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2022. On joining the Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, Kent met John Davies, a retired systems analyst based in London who had published
560-796: The UK to the International Cartographic Association (ICA) General Assembly and was vice chair of the Commission on Map Design for the Association from 2011 to 2015. He became the founding chair of the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping in 2015, and in 2017, founded the World Cartographic Forum (a body within the ICA for leaders of national mapping societies to discuss common issues and share best practice). In 2021, he became
588-598: The book provided the first general guide to Soviet military mapping - the world's most comprehensive cartographic project of the twentieth century. Designing maps, board games and banknotes from an early age, Kent's decision to study cartography at university was largely inspired by a seventeenth-century estate map of Lyminge that hung in his father's study as Rector of the parish. After graduating from Queens' College , Cambridge, he undertook doctoral research to analyse stylistic diversity in European topographic mapping at
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#1732801510904616-497: The construction of the church. A number of graves were uncovered in the chancel of the Saxon church during the 2019 excavations, but these are believed to postdate the demolition of the church during the late 11th or early 12th century. Part of a porticus has been uncovered on the north side of the apse, which may have been where Queen Ethelburga was originally buried, although it is recorded that her remains were moved to Canterbury at
644-477: The current church. The church was first uncovered during the second half of the 19th century by Canon Robert Jenkins (1815–1896), rector of Lyminge from 1854 until his death. The remains show an apsidal chancel separated from the nave by a triple arch with two central columns. The mortar used in the walls of the Saxon church are a distinctive pink colour as it was made from crushed Roman bricks, which indicates that stonemasons from continental Europe were involved in
672-594: The oldest standing structures in the village is the Parish Church of St Mary and St Ethelburga, originally founded in 633. The current church building dates back to c. 965, with additions dating to the late 12th century, the 14th century, and the early 16th century, and is a Grade I listed building . Æthelburh of Kent (Ethelburga) was the daughter of the Christian King Æthelberht of Kent . She married King Edwin of Northumbria in 625, and his conversion
700-690: The only recent map history that can be called a real eye-opener". In 2019, a paperback version of The Red Atlas was published in Japanese by Nikkei National Geographic Inc. Kent gave interviews to several national Japanese newspapers in Tokyo in July that year while attending the 29th International Cartographic Conference . Davies and Kent have presented their research at the Lenin Library in Moscow ,
728-462: The plans' symbology. In 2021, The Red Atlas was featured by the Map Men in an educational video about Soviet mapping, which became the third highest trending video on YouTube shortly after it was released on 11 January. Lyminge Lyminge / l ɪ m ɪ n dʒ / is a village and civil parish in southeast Kent , England. It lies about five miles (8 km) from Folkestone and
756-471: The village from 1887 until eventually closing in 1947. The station building exists today as the library, situated in The Sidings, off Station Road. The Stagecoach bus route 17 serves the village and connects it to Folkestone and Canterbury. There is typically one bus an hour in each direction on weekdays and Saturdays, and a bus every two hours in each direction on Sundays. In addition, Route 18 links
784-469: Was a condition of their marriage. After Edwin was killed at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633, Ethelburga returned to Kent to become abbess of a new convent, Lyminge Abbey . When she died in 647 she was venerated as a saint. In 2019 an archaeological excavation at the church uncovered the remains of the original Anglo-Saxon church, founded by Queen Ethelburga in 633, which is located by the south porch of
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