Publications
Sussex, by Barbara Willard, published 1965 (208 pp., London: B. T. Batsford, ISBN-10: 0713400609 & ISBN-13: 9780713400601) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12872] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Review by L. F. S. [L. F. Salzman] in Sussex Notes and Queries, November 1965:Of making books about Sussex there is no end. This volume, written in a rather breathless style, aims largely at enabling motorists to discover the less known villages and churches in the county. One would like to know the authority for such statements as that Bosham was a centre of Christianity 'well over 200 years before Augustine landed on the coast of Kent' (p. 30), or that Edward VI was born at Halnaker (p. 32). But one has ceased to hope for accuracy in these popular books. As the author has an interest, almost amounting to an obsession, in monuments and epitaphs, it is odd that when writing of Arundel she says not a word of the FitzAlan chapel and its magnificent tombs. It is also odd that Miss Willard, a member of the Archaeological Society, when dealing with Lewes omits all mention of Barbican House and dismisses Anne of Cleves as 'a timbered house holding a small museum.' As might be expected of a Batsford book, the illustrations are well chosen and excellently reproduced.
Chichester and Lewes, by Barbara Willard, published 19 October 1970 (176 pp., Prentice Hall Press, ISBN-10: 0582158532 & ISBN-13: 9780582158535) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12871] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Forest: Ashdown in East Sussex, by Barbara Willard, published 8 June 1989 (232 pp., Sweethaws Press, ISBN-10: 0951179527 & ISBN-13: 9780951179529) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries