Maxine Clarke

Dorothy Earnshaw was a Red Cross nurse (VAD) based at the Manor House Hospital, Folkestone during the First World War. Her battered little friendship album is a wonderful, personal and poignant record of one woman’s Great War.

In the late 18th century, Reverend Townsend of Bermondsey began raising funds and awareness to create the first education for deaf children who did not come from wealthy homes.

In her second look at the casenotes of one inmate of Chiswick House, Max focuses on her life in the years before she was admitted, and asks whether there are any clues here as to why she developed her illness.

Maxine looks at the notes of another resident of Chiswick House, and finds a troubled woman gradually retreating into a world of make believe.

Maxine uncovers the story of a patient of Manor House Asylum, Chiswick who may have been suffering from a hereditary degenerative disease. Though further digging suggests there could be more to her initial diagnosis…

A century ago, while the Great War raged on, Tontine Street in Folkestone was a bustling hive of enterprise, lined with colourful shopfronts, street vendors and shoppers...

During the turbulent Civil War years in England, the future of the hospitals and almshouses in Canterbury must have felt decidedly wobbly...

The Battle of the Somme raged for five bloody months, from 1 July to 18 November 1916. A joint operation between France and Britain, the unprecedented action was designed to finally end 18 months of deadlock in the trenches and to force the Germans back from the Western Front.

We all know about the Leas, Royal Military Canal, Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway and other local heritage stalwarts, but what about the stories of the real people who have lived in and passed through our towns for centuries?

Lanzarote is much more than your average sun, sea and sand holiday destination. We've found at least 20 reasons to give the popular Canary island a go this year.

Marking the 100th anniversary of World War 1, 1914-1918.

Website news content & Twitter for Step Short from spring 2016...

The sexy, bloody and super-popular series is inspiring fans from across the world to seek out its dramatic real-life locations.

Maxine Clarke on the thrill of holding 14th century vellum – and realising that Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is deaf.

Stuck at the end of an abandoned railway line in the town’s less than glamourous harbour area, many of us had never noticed Folkestone's lighthouse before this summer.