Jeff Kent

Jeff Kent was born in 1951, gained a second-class honours degree in International Relations from the University of London in 1973 and lectured at several colleges in North Staffordshire.

He is a prolific writer on a variety of subjects and has published 21 books:

"The Rise & Fall of Rock", 1983;

"Principles of Open Learning", 1987;

"The Last Poet: The Story of Eric Burdon", 1989;

"Back to Where We Once Belonged!: Port Vale Promotion Chronicle, 1988-1989", 1989;

"The Valiants' Years: The Story of Port Vale", 1990;

"Port Vale Tales", 1991;

"Port Vale Forever", 1992;

"The Port Vale Record 1879-1993", 1993;

"Port Vale Personalities: A Biographical Dictionary of Players, Officials and Supporters", 1996;

"The Potteries Derbies", 1998;

"The Mysterious Double Sunset", 2001;

"What If There Had Been No Port in the Vale?: Startling Port Vale Stories", 2011;

"Staffordshire's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2013;

"Peak Pictures", 2014;

"Cheshire's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2015;

"Southern England's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2018,

"Northeast England's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2018;

Yorkshire's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2019;

Northwest England's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2020;

"Central England's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2021;

"England's 1,000-Foot Peaks", 2021.

Also, Jeff was the editor and main contributor to "The Mercia Manifesto: A Blueprint for the Future Inspired by the Past" in 1997; "A Draft Constitution for Mercia" in 2001 and "The Constitution of Mercia" in 2003.

He edited Denis Dawson's autobiography, "Port Vale Grass Roots: From Supporter to Groundsman and Back Again"; Cyril Kent's autobiographies, "A Potteries Past" and "Stories From Stoke", And Max F. Sabian's "Instinctive Thinking".

In addition, Jeff has written articles on different subjects for "Hard Graft", "Education Now", "First Hearing", "NATFHE Journal", "Alsager Chronicle", "The Sentinel", "Eric Burdon Connection Newsletter", "TAG Mag", "Widowinde" and other publications.