Next exhibition in the Templeman Gallery – 18th October to 29th November 2024 

Our next exhibition in the Templeman Gallery and will be installed over the next few weeks. Join us for the exhibition launch on Friday 18th October at 6pm! 

This is a partnership with Brook Rural Museum following an oral history project where local people were interviewed about their memories of hopping and hop production in Brook, Wye and the surrounding areas.

The exhibition features extracts from the oral history recordings alongside items from Special Collections and Archives, and from the Brook Rural Museum, including hop tokens and tally sticks, photographs, newspaper articles and rare books – telling the story of what hop farming and hop picking was like in Kent, and describing the history and future of hop production.

Contact us on specialcollections@kent.ac.uk if you have any questions or would like to attend the free launch event.