Kent After Dark: Rebels, Strikes and Restless Roads is a haunted journey through Kent’s uprisings, strikes, border roads, protest landscapes and restless memory. From Wat Tyler, Jack Cade and Thomas Wyatt to the Nore Mutiny, pirate radio, gallows roads, smuggling country, the Kent Coalfield, Betteshanger, Green Goddess fire engines, port protests, livestock lorries, Dover delays, border tension and the human cost of disruption, this book explores the places where Kent’s ordinary order has wobbled. This is not a simple book of ghosts, and it does not romanticise rebellion. It asks what happens when anger, fear, work, wages, law, protest, punishment and memory gather in roads, villages, ports, pits, court buildings and communities. Some ghosts here belong to old folklore. Others are the living aftershocks of unrest, industrial change and public argument. Written with curiosity, compassion, scepticism and atmosphere, this fourth volume in the Kent After Dark series walks the county’s heavier roads and asks why some absences behave like hauntings. For readers interested in Kent history, rebellion, labour history, haunted roads, folklore, protest, dark heritage, social memory and atmospheric local-history writing, this is Kent after dark at its most restless.