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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
Posted in Legal History, Lewes, Local History, Research Resources, Social History
Tagged newspapers, Old Bailey, paupers, Poor Law, Poverty
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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
Posted in Education History, Legal History, Lewes, Local History, Social History
Tagged education, floods, Gideon Mantell, John Godlee, Lewes Gaol, Lewes Jail, North Street, prisoners, Quakers, schools
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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
Posted in Ecclesiastical History, Legal History, Lewes, Social History
Tagged bibliography, Bliss, Cliffe, Gideon Mantell, John Prophete, library, photography, prisons, Sussex Archaeological Society, Thomas Walker Horsfield
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