Category Archives: Legal History

Meeting – Monday 14 March, 7:30pm

Members’ presentations: Three short talks (15-20 minutes each), reporting the results to date of research being undertaken by Lewes History Group members: 1. Peter Atkins: Lewes at the Old Bailey 2. Ann Holmes: All change or more of the same? … Continue reading

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Lewes History Group: Bulletin 6, (6 January 2011)

1.   Next meeting on Monday 10 January: Debby Matthews, ‘A tour around Gideon Mantell’s Lewes’ 2.   Lewes Floods of 1911 3.   Godlee’s Quaker School, 1826 4.   Elizabeth Ollive’s School, 1769 5.   Life in Lewes Jail in 1824 6.   North Street … Continue reading

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Lewes History Group: Bulletin 5, (11 December 2010)

1.   Christmas meeting on Monday 13 December: John Farrant, Lewes Castle, 1600-1850 2.   Cliffe Market & Fair 3.   Mystery House of Bliss 4.   Colin & Judy Brent and the SAS Library 5.   Lewes Bibliography 6.   Gideon Mantell, ‘A Day’s Ramble … Continue reading

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