Publications
The Photographic Survey of West Sussex, 1975-1976, by A. E. Readman, published 1976 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6178][Lib 10198] & West Sussex Libraries
The Buckle papers: a catalogue, by A. E. Readman, published December 1978 (xiv + 64 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0900801409 & ISBN-13: 9780900801402) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Creation of an Oral History Archive at the West Sussex Record Office, by Alan Readman, published January 1979 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 12, article, p.7) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/12] & The Keep [LIB/500479]
The Royal Sussex Regiment 1701-1966, by Alan E. Readman, published January 1983 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 24, article, p.9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/24] & The Keep [LIB/500480][Lib/502139]
Diaries in the West Sussex Record Office, by Alan Readman & Timothy McCann, published March 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 4, article, pp.145-147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.
The Royal Sussex Regiment. A Catalogue of Records, by A. E. Readman, published 1985 (xi + 289 pp. + 9 pp. of plates, Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-13: 9780862600730) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502139] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Erringham Farm Map, by Gillian Hill, Jane Le Cluse and Alan Readman, published January 1990 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 45, article, p.6) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/45] & The Keep [LIB/500482]
D-Day West Sussex: Springboard for the Normandy Landings, by Ian Greig, Kim C. Leslie and Alan Readman, published 1994 (115 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862602912 & ISBN-13: 9780862602918) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12187] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
West Sussex at War 1939-1945, by Kim C. Leslie and Alan Readman, published 1995 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13095]
West Sussex at War, 1939-45 , by Caroline Adams, Martin Hayes, Timothy J. McCann and Alan Readman, published May 1995 (Local History Mini-Guide to Sources, No. 2, pamphlet, 8 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862603234 & ISBN-13: 9780862603236) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12855][Lib 13188] & West Sussex Libraries
Cinema West Sussex: The First Hundred Years, by Allen Eyles, Frank Gray and A. E. Readman, published 22 November 1996 (xvi + 240 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1860770355 & ISBN-13: 9781860770357) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13342] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:The South Coast was popular with early film-makers and the county had links with many. Their work is highlighted and that of the film studio at Shoreham, which produced a string of successful feature films. This book also provides a rare insight into the world of amateur cinematography with the remarkable story of the nationally-acclaimed Bognor Regis Film Society. The authors trace the travelling showmen who brought moving pictures to public halls and fairgrounds and describe in detail the history of all 62 cinemas that have operated in West Sussex.
West Sussex Land Tax, 1785, edited by Alan Readman, Lionel Falconer, Rosie Ritchie and Peter Wilkinson, published 2000 (vol. 82, 319 pp., Sussex Record Society, ISBN-10: 0854450491 & ISBN-13: 9780854450497) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14404] & The Keep [LIB/500459][Lib/507865] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries View Online
Abstract:This edition of the Land Tax provides the most comprehensive picture of the 18th century inhabitants of West Sussex ever published. It also completes the picture for the whole ancient county of Sussex, providing the counterpart to the East Sussex volume issued by the Record Society in 1991.
The Land Tax, like a rate, was an annual charge on the occupiers of houses and land which for over two centuries in England and Wales formed one of the staple sources of Government income. The records of its assessment and collection have long been recognised as of major importance for a wide range of historical studies. The extensive index, including all personal and place names, enables this edition to provide a comprehensive directory of landowners and tenants - the fullest record of the inhabitants of the county before the compilation of the first Victorian census half a century later. The tax assessments listed anyone who owned or occupied a house or land with a rentable value of upwards of £1 per year. It consequently includes around half of all the householders - over 6,000 people out of a total population of around 60,000 - and even more units of property. None of the 19th century County Directories approached this figure. It will be invaluable to a wide range of students: to family historians for the personal names, to topographers for the place names, and to social and economic historians for the details of land holding and ownership.
The year chosen, 1785, has of course been chosen to match the East Sussex volume. It catches West Sussex at the end of the era when it was an almost entirely rural and agricultural community, before the seaside villages blossomed into fashionable coastal resorts. Every rural parish is covered - and of course the urban communities represented by the City of Chichester, the market towns of Arundel, Horsham, Midhurst, Petworth and Steyning, and the port of New Shoreham.
The Land Tax, like a rate, was an annual charge on the occupiers of houses and land which for over two centuries in England and Wales formed one of the staple sources of Government income. The records of its assessment and collection have long been recognised as of major importance for a wide range of historical studies. The extensive index, including all personal and place names, enables this edition to provide a comprehensive directory of landowners and tenants - the fullest record of the inhabitants of the county before the compilation of the first Victorian census half a century later. The tax assessments listed anyone who owned or occupied a house or land with a rentable value of upwards of £1 per year. It consequently includes around half of all the householders - over 6,000 people out of a total population of around 60,000 - and even more units of property. None of the 19th century County Directories approached this figure. It will be invaluable to a wide range of students: to family historians for the personal names, to topographers for the place names, and to social and economic historians for the details of land holding and ownership.
The year chosen, 1785, has of course been chosen to match the East Sussex volume. It catches West Sussex at the end of the era when it was an almost entirely rural and agricultural community, before the seaside villages blossomed into fashionable coastal resorts. Every rural parish is covered - and of course the urban communities represented by the City of Chichester, the market towns of Arundel, Horsham, Midhurst, Petworth and Steyning, and the port of New Shoreham.
Story of the Home Front in West Sussex 1939-1945, Wartime West Sussex 1939-1945 Project , by Alan Readman, published 2004 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Cecil Pashley and Shoreham: the story of a pioneer aviator, by Alan Readman, published Autumn 2007 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 76, article, p.4) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/76] & The Keep [LIB/500500]