Jeff Kent was born in 1951, gained a second-class honours degree in international relations from the University of London in 1973, was a lecturer until 2010 and has been a professional speaker since.

He became a freelance author in 1972, has written 26 books, co-written two, edited eight and published 31 on a variety of subjects. He has recently completed writing a series of books on England’s 1,000-foot peaks.

In the 1970s, Jeff became a singer-songwriter, keyboards player and percussionist and was a pioneer of green music. He has had four albums released, two with his band, The Witan, and two solo. He still performs occasionally in public.

From 2012 to 2021, he identified 3,805 1,000-foot peaks in England (the Kents) and has so far climbed 1,001 of them, becoming the first person to do so.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Jeff extensively researched the remarkable double sunset phenomenon and he held guided viewings of the occurrence in Staffordshire and Derbyshire every summer solstice from 2001 to 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic made it unsafe to do so.

He directed, wrote the screenplay and soundtrack of and did the commentary on the film, Pictures From The Potteries, which was released in 2014 and is available on DVD from the Staffordshire Film Archive.

Jeff has been a radical campaigner for over forty years, the convener of the Acting Witan of Mercia (which seeks de facto independence for the region) since its inception in 2003 and the co-ordinator of Independent England since its formation in 2019.

He profoundly believes in the principles of ecological balance, co-operative community and organic democracy and these ideals have increasingly underpinned his thinking and work since the hippie zenith of 1967.

Jeff remains open to commissions and available for bookings for projects and events which don’t conflict with his principles!