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The Horsham of Thomas Charles Medwin, 1776-1829: I, Thomas Charles Medwin, John Bury, The Rev. George Marshall, by Susan Cabell Djabri, published 1994 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12226] & Horsham Museum Society

A Letter from Brighton - 1841, by Mrs. Susan C. Djabri, published September 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 3, article, pp.92-100) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of the family of William Cabell (1784-1853), the son of William Cabell and Martha Scutt, who married Elizabeth Savage in 1826 and their nine children. The story includes a letter from William to his daughter Elizabeth to which are attached extensive notes on Brighton.

Horsham's Forgotten Son: Thomas Medwin, Friend of Shelley and Byron, by Susan Cabell Djabri and Jeremy Knight, published 1995 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society

A Horsham Companion: A Ramble Around Horsham Two Hundred Years Ago, edited by Susan Cabell Djabri, published 1997 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society

Steine House - the Manor House of Brighton and the Royal York Hotel, by Roy Grant and Susan C. Djarbi, published December 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 8, article, pp.283-288) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508815] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Horsham Tithe Map Schedule and Index 1840, edited by Susan C. Djabri from the transcript by George Coomber, plus additional 1841 census information transcribed by Jean Alexander, published December 1998 (86 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484045 & ISBN-13: 9781902484044) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13879][Lib 13880] & Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

The Tredcrofts of Horsham - confusion among the records#, by Susan Djarbi, published September 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 7, article, pp.250-254) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508822] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Included is a conjectural Tredcroft family tree beginning with William (fl 1492) and covers the years 1482 to 1696 in the parish of Horsham.

The Shelleys of Field Place, by Susan Cabell Djabri, Annabelle Hughes and Jeremy Knight, published 1 February 2000 (222 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484088 & ISBN-13: 9781902484082) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14076] & The Keep [LIB/503508] & Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Letters of Bysshe and Timothy Shelley and Other Documents from Horsham Museum & the West Sussex Record Office, by Susan Djabri and Jeremy Knight, published 1 February 2000 (200 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484096 & ISBN-13: 9781902484099) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14077] & The Keep [LIB/503509] & Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

"A little news from Horsham" : some 18th century letters from Hills, by Susan C. Djabri, published 2002 (pamphlet, 54 pp., Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14819] & British Library & Horsham Museum Society

Pilfold Medwin: 'The Man of Horsham', a Victorian Gentleman, by Susan Cabell Djabri, published 2002 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society

Horsham: The Development of a Market Town - Four Studies from the Big Archive Contribution - Horsham in the Year 2000, by Susan C. Djabri and Paul Smith, published 2002 (84 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 190248407X & ISBN-13: 9781902484075) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14818] & British Library & Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

The Horsham Calendar of Crimes and Criminals: Accounts of Some Criminal Cases in Horsham Museum Archives, by Audrey Goffe, Norman Hewell, John Hurd and Sheila Stevens and edited by Susan C. Djarbi, published 7 March 2003 (102 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484215 & ISBN-13: 9781902484211) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

The Diaries of Sarah Hurst, 1759-1762: Life and Love in 18th Century Horsham, by Barbara Hurst (transcription) and Susan C. Djarbi (editor), published 10 December 2003 (343 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484223 & ISBN-13: 9781902484228) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

The Diaries of Sarah Hurst records the day to day life of a young woman who lived in Horsham, Sussex between 1759 and 1762. Consequently, this book can claim to be one of the most important sources of information on life in the 18th century. The Diaries of Sarah Hurst not only create a vivid portrayal of the local town's people they also provide a fascinating insight into the social history of women, as they contain the intimate thoughts and feelings of a young woman and her relationships with the people around her. Sarah's intimate diaries can't help but touch the reader as she writes about her love for Henry Smith, a man who was thirteen years older than her.

Diaries can tell us much about how a person sees his or her world and when they can be linked with others of the same period or close to, even better - for one person's view of a time, person and place may be very different from another's. Sarah Hurst's diary predates that of John Baker of Horsham but they knew the same people and this Susan Djabri uses well to show how the two writers had very different views of the same people. Sarah's diary is of the same date as Thomas Turner of East Hoathly who, like Sarah, went sea-bathing along our coastline. The difference in their approach to going bathing is a comment on the difference between the lifestyle of the affluent Hurst and the struggling Turner as well as their personalities. Both diarists are from businesses. Sarah expects to help in her family's shop but also writes poetry and has a lively social life as many urban Georgian women did. One would like to know why she was so secretive about her marriage, not telling her family until afterwards. The diary ends before that story unfolds.
Many women like Sarah worked in businesses in Georgian England and a considerable number ran their own. The formidable Mrs Dring of Brighton ran a shop and a lodging house, Isabella Pullen built her own. Their role is understated in most Georgian studies but a start has been made in Hannah Barker's The Business of Women - female enterprise and urban development in Northern England 1760-1830, Oxford University Press, 2006. Diaries such as this with the excellent background research by the editor, street directories, inventories, wills and other sources should help us to understand the role of women in Georgian Sussex.

1844 Tithe Map of Horsham. Parts 1 and 2 of Horsham Parish (Northern Part) featuring Roffey, Littlehaven, North Heath and Holbrook, by Alan J. Siney, Annabelle F. Hughes and Susan C. Djarbi, published 2005 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

1844 Tithe Map of Horsham. Parts 3,4 and 5 of Horsham Parish (Southern Part - excluding town centre) Covering Southwater and Broadbridge Heath, by Alan J. Siney, Annabelle F. Hughes and Susan C. Djarbi, published 2005 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

Images of England: Horsham, by Susan C. Djabri, published 1 May 2006 (128 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 075243831X & ISBN-13: 9780752438313) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Schedule of Property on the 1813 Enclosure Map, by Alan J. Siney and Susan C. Djarbi, published 1 June 2007 (50 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484347 & ISBN-13: 9781902484341) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

The enclosure of Horsham Common : with a calendar of documents relating to the enclosure of Horsham Museum : 1797 draft survey of the Duke of Norfolk's estates on Horsham Common : 1809 survey of the Borough of Horsham, edited by E. J. Bowen and Susan C. Djarbi, published 1 June 2007 (iv + 76 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484371 & ISBN-13: 9781902484372) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14011] & British Library & Horsham Museum Society

Horsham Through Time, by Susan C. Djabri, published 12 March 2009 (96 pp., Horsham: Amberley Publishing, ISBN-10: 1848685343 & ISBN-13: 9781848685345) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

In Horsham Through Time 19th and 20th century photographs from Horsham Museum's archives have been matched with those taken recently by members of Horsham Photographic Society, now in its 60th anniversary year. These show how many of Horsham's most treasured buildings have survived and found new uses. Horsham's ancient parish church, castellated Town Hall and medieval burgage houses remain largely unchanged alongside modern shopping centres in Swan Walk and Pirie's Place, while other old buildings have been adapted for office or residential use. Some former streets have disappeared under the dual carriageway, built to relieve damaging traffic congestion, but an exciting new public space has been created in The Forum, where the history of Horsham and its surrounding district is imaginatively portrayed on a giant sundial.

Waking the Dead: A Pocket Guide to Denne Road Cemetery, by Susan C. Djabri, published February 2010 (86 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 1902484428 & ISBN-13: 9781902484426) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

Part of the research undertaken by people looking for ancestors is to visit graveyards - we wonder what did our ancestors look like and what did they do during their lives?
This attractively produced booklet takes us on a journey through Denne Road cemetery in Horsham, now declared a site of nature conservation interest, a quiet and beautiful place today and a green oasis near the heart of a busy town. It opened in 1852 after St Mary's churchyard became full and in 1856 was the only permitted town graveyard when other, non-conformist, graveyards were closed. There is a very interesting history of the cemetery from its beginnings up to date and the information on its development gives the reader a social history of Horsham and highlights the lives of individual past inhabitants, some of whom are buried there. There are excellent photographs of people, gravestones and life in Horsham over the 19th and 20th centuries. A comprehensive index of people mentioned in the book, as well as those whose gravestones are shown, will be of great help to anyone researching their family history.
An excellent publication invaluable to anyone interested in Horsham burials.

Keeping House in Horsham in 1760 - The Diary and Account Book of Elizabeth Smart of North Chapel & the Dog and Bacon, edited by Susan C. Djabri, published 2012 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society

Letters from the Front in 1917, by Susan C. Djabri, published December 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 4, article, pp.185-190) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508854]

I have some unpublished memoirs and a number of letters from my uncle, Norman WELTON, to my mother Marian - his younger sister - telling of his experiences at the Front during the First World War. Though many of the letters are written in a light-hearted tone, they reveal a good deal about the conditions in which the soldiers lived, the terror of heavy shelling and my uncle's feelings about his friend, Charles TREGLOWN, who had been killed. There is also a vivid account of his experiences in combat, as part of General Sandeman Carey's 'force', hastily assembled to plug a gap in the line in March 1918. Norman was posted to Sussex when the war ended. I have added some notes on useful websites that can be used to find further information about the First World War.

Identifying 'Grandmother Sheppard' and her daughter Mary, by Susan Djabri, published 2015 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 83, article, p.51) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/83] & The Keep [LIB/508996]