Publications
Tom Paine and Bull House: The revolutionary writer's Lewes connection, by David Powell, published December 2008 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 116, article, p.4, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library View Online
Preview:Two hundred and forty years have passed since Tom Paine first rode into Lewes, East Sussex to take up lodgings in Bull House. An Outrider with the Excise, he was to make it his home for the next six years, the quiet centre of the life of the man described by George Washington as "the godfather of our independence"; by Michael Foot as "the greatest exile ever to leave these shores"; and dismissed, slanderously, by Theodore Roosevelt as "that filthy little atheist" - but that is another story. . .