December Talk: Mike Goldwater and Sarah Tait “Behind the ISLAND”

by Terry Prue | Nov 28, 2024

For this last event of 2024 we will be at The Oak Hotel with mulled wine and mince pies on offer. It will be particularly lovely to be getting together with our regular talk attenders. Just over three months ago, photographer Mike Goldwater and poet Sarah Tait...

Results of Feasibility Study to bring back Tall Ships Regatta to Ramsgate

by Terry Prue | May 12, 2024

Almost a year ago in July 2023 we hosted a talk by Paul Bishop and Stephen Byrne on the possibility of bringing Tall Ships events back to Ramsgate as a way of using Ramsgate’s maritime heritage to boost the visitor economy. Earlier this year the Ramsgate Society and...

Talk by Laura Probert on Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills: Ramsgate’s Clifftop Amazon

by Terry Prue | Sep 19, 2023

The year 2023 marks the centenary of the appointment of Ramsgate’s (and Kent’s) first female mayor and greatest benefactor, Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills. To commemorate this, Ramsgate Working History have identified inspiring women from the town’s past whose...

The Moving Essence of Home presented by Dave Neita

by Terry Prue | Aug 2, 2023

We are delighted to partner with The Ramsgate Festival of Sound to bring you a talk by Dave Neita. Our involvement with this event grew out of our collaboration with Sabina Desir on the ‘Banned’ project although it is something much wider than that. It is...

The Tall Ships and Ramsgate

by Terry Prue | Jun 15, 2023

Our next Ramsgate Society talk will be led by Paul Bishop and Stephen Byrne on the possibility of bringing Tall Ships events back to Ramsgate as a way of using Ramsgate’s maritime heritage to boost the visitor economy on which the town is so dependant. Paul Bishop is...