Bibliography - Jack Roy Armstrong M.B.E. (1902 - 1993)
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A History of Sussex, by J. R. Armstrong, published 1961 (London: Darwen Finlayson Ltd.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 77] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Of the making of books about Sussex there is no end. Here is another scissors-and-paste compilation in which the scissors of selection and the paste of style are competently wielded; though it is odd that there is little reference to the town and none at all to the Battle of Lewes. Each of the 19 chapters has a too scrappy note on "Further reading": in that for the Norman period, the Facsimile of Domesday should be attributed to the Archaeological, not the Record, Society, and the germane volume of V.C.H. is vol. 1, not vol. 3. The later chapters are better than the earlier, which contain some careless blunders; thus, the mint at Pevensey does not go back to the tenth century, St. Richard died in 1253 not 1248, and he was buried at Chichester and not at Dover; and one would like to know the evidence for Battle Abbey being "one of the most popular centres of pilgrimage in the whole country". The numerous illustrations are well chosen and excellently produced, and there is a useful series of diagrammatic maps.

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, edited by J. R. Armstrong and John Lowe, published 1973 (pamphlet, 33 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2853][Lib 12304][Lib 12664] & R.I.B.A. Library

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - guidebook, edited by J R Armstrong, published 1974 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5685]

A History of Sussex, by J. R. Armstrong, published 30 April 1974 (3rd revised and enlarged edition, 176 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850331854 & ISBN-13: 9780850331851) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5695] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - guidebook, edited by J R Armstrong, published 1976 (pamphlet, Worthing: Flexiprint, ISBN-10: 0905259009 & ISBN-13: 9780905259000) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15560] & West Sussex Libraries

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, by J. R. Armstrong, R. Harris and edited by C. S. H. Zeunder, published 1977 (pamphlet, 48 pp., Weald and Downland Museum, ISBN-10: 0905259041 & ISBN-13: 9780905259048) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15410] & British Library & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Traditional Buildings accessible to the Public, by J. R. Armstrong, published 15 November 1979 (143 pp., E. P. Publishing, ISBN-10: 0715806785 & ISBN-13: 9780715806784) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A History of Sussex, by J. R. Armstrong, published 10 November 1995 (4th revised edition, 168 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850339464 & ISBN-13: 9780850339468) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13096] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sussex has become synonymous with its first inhabitant, 'Boxgrove Man', but it was fashioned by the Romans, invaded by the Saxons, and became a strategic defence. It achieved its greatest importance with the Normans who made it the main highway from England to the Continent.