West Sussex Archives Society 2024 Conference: Midhurst Aspects of war. Sussex during World War II, Saturday 28 September.

Posted on July 26, 2024 by EditorP

West Sussex Archives Society 2024 Conference

ASPECTS OF WAR  – SUSSEX DURING WORLD WAR II

Saturday 28 September 2024

Times – 10am – 5pm.  Arrival from 9.30am

At  – The Grange Centre, Bepton Road, Midhurst GU29 9HD

The conference will look at life in Sussex and the south at the time of World War II, for both civilians and the military. The programme will include the following speakers and talks.

William Lonergan – D-Day and the ‘Spoof’ Invasions

Chris Hare – The Fascist Movement in West Sussex

Matthew Jones – ‘West Sussex at War’ – Aspects of the Home Front during World War II

Richard Coates – The Mulberry Harbours

Brian Lavery – ‘Do not be audible from Ashington to the Chanctonbury Ring’ – Insights into the Sussex Home Guard

David Rudwick – Wartime Midhurst (including an exhibition of ephemera from the time)

Members £30; non-members £35.

Includes tea or coffee before the start and in the afternoon.

A cold buffet lunch, including sandwiches etc., can be ordered at £7.50 per person. Please add this when making your booking. Lunches must be booked by 14 September.

Those attending are otherwise welcome to bring their own lunches. Alternatively there are several food outlets within a short walk of the Centre.

There is an extensive car park next to the Grange Centre, which costs £2.50 for up to 8 hours.

To book and for details of paying by BACS, please email contact@wsas.co.uk

Or pay by BACs to West Sussex Archives Society, account number 10942073, sort code 20-20-62 and email contact@wsas.co.uk

See hhtp://wsas.co.uk for their activities which currently include a talk about tithe records by Christopher Whittick. 

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Lewes Churches: Two Talks – Friday 4th October 2024

Posted on July 25, 2024 by EditorP
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Living in Tudor and Stuart Sussex c.1500-1700 – a study day organised by the Sussex School of Archaeology and History – 12th October 2024

Posted on July 24, 2024 by EditorP

Saturday 12th October 2024. Kings Church, Brooks Road, Lewes, BN7 2BY

An exploration of how people in the Tudor and Stuart periods made a living, what they wore, where they lived and worshipped, and how they were helped if they became very poor. The associated handbook will include a brief overview of key events such as the closure of the monasteries by Henry VIII, and the emergence of England as a Protestant nation, the attempt by Spain to invade England and the failure of the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War and Commonwealth, and the restoration of the Stuarts as monarchs.

BOOKING: via website of the Sussex School of History and Archaeology – conferences. http://www.sussexarchaeology.org/tudor-stuarts-programme

Fee: £30 in person, £25 students, £15 on line.

10.00: A brief introduction to the day – Dr David Rudling

10.05: Living in a provincial town – Elizabethan Chichester

Dr Caroline Adams.  Retired Archivist – Independent palaeographer and historian specialising in Sussex and the early modern period Independent Historian specialising in the Tudor period.

10.45: Living in a new town – Brighton a  fishing and coastal carrying town 1540-1700.

 Dr Sue Berry FRHistS   Independent historian and writer.

11.25: Break with refreshments [provided]

11.45: Social attitudes in Tudor and Stuart Chichester: the evidence of the wills.

Dr James McInnes. Independent historian with a particular interest in the ‘plaine country fellow.’

12.20:  Tudor and Stuart Great Houses in an age of religious upheaval

Maurice Howard OBE, FSA, FSA (Scot), Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Sussex

13.00: Lunch [not provided] You are welcome to bring your own lunch or there are shops and cafes where you can purchase refreshments nearby.

14.00: Vernacular buildings in Sussex: some impacts of changes in design from c1500-1700

Joe Thompson Conservator, researcher and lecturer on historic timber-framed building.

14.40:  Clothing in Seventeenth century Sussex  

Dr Danae Tankard,  FRHistS Reader in Social History University of Chichester.

15.20: Break with refreshments [provided]

15.40: The poor and the impact of the Elizabethan Poor laws 

Dr Mary Rudling, Independent Historian, expert on the Poor Law.

16.20: The impact of the Reformation on parish churches and worship

Dr Andrew Foster, FRHistS  Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Southampton and Kent.

17.00 – 17.15: Q&A

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