Lewes History Group

Would you like to share your stories and memories of working at, or visiting the Brighton’s Theatre Royal in the 50s and 60s?

Post -war Brighton, like the rest of the country, was undergoing massive change: but how did this affect the Theatre, its staff and audiences?

We want to know who the audiences were, where did they come from, what did they like to see, what did they think of their local theatre?

As for those who worked there, what was it like, how different was it then?

We would love to hear from you!

Our oral history volunteers will be interviewing people during December, working towards an initial interactive sharing on 2^nd and 3^rd February 2022.

For more information about taking part contact Sara Clifford

Sussex Archaeological Society talk via Zoom

A talk by Dr Jonathan Foyle

Anne of Cleves, the fourth queen of King Henry VIII,was given a house in Lewes as part of their divorce settlement. Called a ‘Flanders Mare’ only after her death, she was well regarded in her lifetime and an active stepmother to Elizabeth I. But what remains of her personal environment?

Broadcaster, writer and researcher Dr Jonathan Foyle will share his detective work on Anne.

More details and tickets on the SAS website (SAS members free, non-members £5)

Image at Sussex Archaeological Society website

Sussex Archaeological Society talk via Zoom

A talk by Dr Susannah Maidment

When Gideon Mantell discovered some large fossilized teeth in the rocks of Cuckfield, Sussex, he immediately recognised them as something unknown to science: they were reptilian, but far larger than the teeth of any reptile alive today. He concluded that a giant, now extinct reptile must have once lived in the area.

Mantell’s discoveries, along with others from Sussex and Oxford, eventually prompted Richard Owen, the founder of London’s Natural History Museum, to name these giant reptiles the “Dinosauria”.

In Dr Maidment’s talk, she’ll discuss the dinosaurs of the Weald, the state of knowledge today, and the methods and techniques being used to put flesh on the bones of these historic discoveries.

More details and tickets on the SAS website (SAS members free, non-members £5)

Image at the Sussex Archaeological Society website