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Sussex (Cambridge County Geographies), by George F. Bosworth, published 1909 (Cambridge University Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3318]

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge County Geographies were designed to provide a series of concise guides to British regions. Aimed at the general reader, they combined a comprehensive approach to various aspects of physical and human geography with an emphasis on clarity. This guide to Sussex by George F. Bosworth was first published in 1909. The text is interspersed with numerous illustrative figures and also contains a list of the chief towns and villages within the county.

The Structure of the Atmosphere in Clear Weather, by C. J. Cave, published 1912 (Cambridge)

The English Borough in the Twelfth Century, by Adolphus Ballard, published 1914 (Cambridge)

The Place-Names of Sussex, by Richard G. Roberts, published 1914 (210 pp., Cambridge University Press) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Part I is a listing of Sussex place names with their origins explained, and instances given of its early use as a place name.
Part II is a listing of separate elements within the place names, and is divided into personal names and words other than personal names.

The Life Correspondence & Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, 'Father of Vertu in England', by Mary F. S. Hervey, published 1921 (Cambridge University Press) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

British Borough Charters, 1216-1307, by Adolphus Ballard and Professor James Tait, published 1923 (Cambridge)

The Wheelwright's Shop, by George Sturt, published 1923 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8311] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Problems of Place-Name Study: Being a course of Three Lectures delivered at King's College under the auspices of the University of London, by A. Mawer, published 1929 (Cambridge University Press)

In the review, which appeared in Sussex Notes & Queries for May, 1930, of the second volume of The Place-Names of Sussex, it was suggested that further illustrative comment by the Editors would have been welcome. It therefore seems appropriate to draw the attention of Sussex readers to these lectures, which were delivered by Mr. Mawer during the time when he was preparing the volumes on Sussex, and have recently been published in book form. The subject is, of course, dealt with generally, but Sussex examples are so freely quoted by way of illustration that the lectures may almost be regarded as a supplement to the more formal volumes dealing exclusively with the county.
Of the 363 names in the Index locorum no fewer than 103 are the names of places of Sussex; and it is clear that the county has proved a particularly rich mine for those in search of place-name material, and also that the work done on Sussex names has been most useful in throwing light on problems which affect other parts of England.
For anyone interested in Sussex names the lectures are of the greatest possible value, and suggest several fruitful lines of investigation. Particular mention may be made of the suggestion, first made in the Introduction to the Sussex volumes and further developed in these lectures, that the early history of the Hastings district, and perhaps of the greater portion of East Sussex, is different to that of the rest of the county. This is a point to which it is hoped to return later. The object of this note is to emphasize the fact that no one interested in the subject, and in particular no Sussex student, should fail to read Mr. Mawer's lectures.

The Place-names of Sussex, Part I: The Rapes of Chichester, Arundel and Bramber, by Allen Mawer and Frank Merry Stenton, published 1929 (Cambridge University Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10138][Lib 8294] & The Keep [LIB/500116][Lib/504721] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The publication by the English Place-Name Society of the first of the two volumes which it is devoting to Sussex is an event of very great importance for all students of Sussex History and indeed for everyone interested in whatever capacity in the topography of Sussex: and there can be no doubt that this volume and its companion dealing with East Sussex will rank high amongst the records of the county.

The Place-names of Sussex, Part II: The Rapes of Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings, by Allen Mawer and Frank Merry Stenton, published 1930 (Cambridge University Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10137][Lib 5597][Lib 8295] & The Keep [LIB/500115][Lib/504722] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The second, and concluding, volume of the English Place-Name Society on Sussex has followed the first at a commendably short interval, and brings to completion a very notable piece of work, which must long remain a standard book of reference for all students of Sussex history.
This volume deals with the place-names in the three eastern rapes; and as these are larger in area than the western rapes the material to be worked through is more extensive. There is no further introductory matter, though many readers would have welcomed comment from Professor Mawer and perhaps fresh light on the early settlement of Sussex. But after the individual names have been disposed of there is, as in the other volumes in the series, a chapter on field names, and another on the distribution of the various elements. Finally there is the indispensable index to the two volumes.

Edward II, King of England. Letters of Edward Prince of Wales, by Hilda Johnstone, published 1931 (Cambridge University Press)

Religious Societies, ecclesiolae in Ecclesia, from 1500 to 1800, excluding those of the Church of Rome, by F. W. B. Bullock, published 1938 (Cambridge)

The History of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, by F. W. B. Bullock, published 1941 (Cambridge)

The Medieval Coroner, by R. F. Hunnisett, published 1961 (Cambridge University Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3029] & West Sussex Libraries

The Author is known to our Society from his Articles on the subject of Coroners in our Collections and his contributions to Sussex Notes and Queries. This is a very thorough and carefully prepared work embracing every aspect of the Coroner's activities and, though suited rather to the initiated yet can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone with only a rudimentary acquaintance with the subject. As the name implies it deals with the Office of Coroner from its inception in 1194 down to the beginning of the Tudor regime - after which the "decline and fall" set in, though it seems that the Coroner may still have to empanel a jury if the Sheriff is personally concerned. It might be useful in a future edition to give a specimen Writ de coronatore eligendo with alternative forms as to the vacancy. The Glossary gives the impression that it is a stock form for the Series and might be made more applicable to the particular Work.

The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England, by Cynthia B. Herrup, published 25 August 1989 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, 252 pp., Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 0521375878 & ISBN-13: 9780521375870) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502180]

The Common Peace traces the attitudes behind the enforcement of the criminal law in early modern England. Focusing on five stages in prosecution (arrest, bail, indictment, conviction and sentencing), the book uses a variety of types of sources - court records, biographical information, state papers, legal commentaries, popular and didactic literature - to reconstruct who actually enforced the criminal law and what values they brought to its enforcement. A close study of the courts in eastern Sussex between 1592 and 1640 allows Dr Herrup to show that an amorphous collection of modest property holders participated actively in the legal process. These yeomen and husbandmen who appeared as victims, constables, witnesses and jurors were as important to the credibility of the law as were the justices and judges. The uses of the law embodied the ideas of these middling men about not only law and order but also religion and good government. By arguing that legal administration was part of the routine agenda of obligation for middling property holders, Dr Herrup shows how the expectations produced by legal activities are important for understanding the decades immediately before the outbreak of the English Civil War. As the first book to use early seventeenth-century legal records outside of Essex, The Common Peace adopts an explicitly comparative framework, attempting to trace the ways that social conditions influenced legal process as well as law enforcement in various counties. By blending social history, legal history and political history, this volume offers a complement to more conventional studies of legal records and of local government.

Rudyard Kipling: Something of myself and other Autobiographical Writings, edited by Thomas Pinney, published 29 June 1990 (330 pp., Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 052135515X & ISBN-13: 9780521355155) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Rudyard Kipling's autobiography, Something of Myself, was the author's last work, but it has not received the serious attention it deserves. Thomas Pinney's edition of the work, supplemented by other autobiographical pieces, aims to change that. Professor Pinney, a leading textual editor currently engaged on Kipling's letters, has consulted the available source material relating to Something of Myself. He has constructed an outline of the book's composition; described the history of its publication; established a text and a set of variants; and given a critical account of the book's design and its main themes. His annotations to the work (and to the supplementary pieces) identify references and allusions, and provide a biographical context against which Kipling's selections, omissions, and distortions may clearly be seen. The extent to which Kipling's description of his life failed to match what actually happened is extraordinary. Two of the additional items presented here (Kipling's Indian diary of 1885 and the illustrations he made for his autobiographical story, 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep') are previously unpublished. Pinney shows how they, and other forms of autobiographical writing, reflect upon or complicate the narrative of Something of Myself. This carefully prepared edition sheds new light on Kipling as a man and writer.

Fishbourne revisited: the site in its context, by Barry Cunliffe, published 1991 in Journal of Roman Archaeology (vol. 4, article, pp.160-169, Cambridge University Press)

The excavation of the Roman complex at Fishbourne near Chichester in southern England began in 1961. The excavation lasted for 8 seasons, and the results were published in 1971 (Cunliffe 1971). The coincidence of these dates appealed to the aniversary-conscious editor of this Jpornal, who suggested to the writer that 1991 would be an appropriate occasion to stand back to consider Fishbourne in the light of our greatly enhanced knowledge of the formative years of the province of Britannia.

Psychological Medicine: A diagnostic analysis of the Casebooks of Ticehurst House Asylum, 1845-1890, by Trevor H. Turner, published 1992 (Monograph supplement 21, 68 pp., Cambridge University Press)

The period 1C bath-building at Fishbourne and the problem of the 'Proto-palace', by E. W. Black, published 1993 in Journal of Roman Archaeology (vol. 6, article, pp.233-237, Cambridge University Press)

In this paper I will offer a new interpretation of one of the major periods of the site, the so-called 'proto-palace' of period 1C, that disassociates it from king Cogidubnus.

Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century, by Michael Zell, published 24 March 1994 (xv + 257 pp., Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 0521445418 & ISBN-13: 9780521445412) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Industry in the Countryside is a wide-ranging and readable study of the nature of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. It examines the widely-debated theory of 'proto-industrialisation', drawing on data from the Kentish Weald - an area which was already a centre of cottage industry in the Tudor era and was also the earliest rural manufacturing region to 'de-industrialise'. The book analyses the Wealden textile industry from its workforce to its industrialists and emphasises the ubiquity of dual employment among textile workers. It explores the local context of cottage industry, investigating the pattern of landholding and inheritance, the local farming regime, and the demographic background to rural industrialisation. Zell outlines what type of local economy became the site of this so-called 'proto-industry' and shows the impact of cottage industry on the people of such regions. He concludes by asking, is there anything in the 'proto-industrialisation' model?

The Rhetoric of Power in the Bayeux Tapestry, by Suzanne Lewis, published 28 September 1998 (xv + 169 pp., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 0521632382 & ISBN-13: 9780521632386) accessible at: British Library

The Bayeux Tapestry has long been recognized as one of the most problematical historical documents of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. More than a reinterpretation of the historical evidence, Suzanne Lewis's study explores the visual and textual strategies that have made the Bayeux Tapestry's narrative such a powerful experience for audiences over the centuries. The Rhetoric of Power focuses on how the Tapestry tells its story and how it shapes the responses of reader-viewers. This involves a detailed analysis of the way the visual narrative draws on diverse literary genres to establish the cultural resonance of the story it tells. The material is organized into self-contained yet cross-referencing episodes that not only portray the events of the Conquest but locate those events within the ideological codes of Norman feudalism. Lewis's analysis conveys how the whole 232-foot tapestry would have operated as a complex cultural 'fiction' comparable to modern cinema.

Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs, by Dennis R. Dean, published 1999 (xix + 290 pp., Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521420488) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This is a biography of a dinosaur hunter and scholar. Mantell spent 25 years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era.

Fishbourne, Chichester, and Togidubnus rex revisited, by Ernest Black, published 2008 in Journal of Roman Archaeology (vol. 21, article, pp.293-303, Cambridge University Press)

Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs, by Dennis R. Dean, published 9 March 2008 (xix + 290 pp., Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 0521088178 & ISBN-13: 9780521088176) accessible at: British Library

This is a scholarly yet accessible 1999 biography of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale and related in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era. He had significant interaction with such well-known figures as James Parkinson, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Roderick Murchison, Charles Darwin and Richard Owen. Dennis Dean, a well-known scholar of geology and the Victorian era, here places Mantell's career in its cultural context, employing original research in archives throughout the world, including the previously unexamined Mantell family papers in New Zealand.

Land & Society in Edwardian Britain, by Brian Short, published 21 August 2008 (400 pp., Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 0521021774 & ISBN-13: 9780521021777) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501952]

This revealing 1997 book in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10 was the 'New Domesday' of landownership and land values. This rich documentation, for long locked away in the Inland Revenue's offices, became available to the public in the late 1970s. For the growing number of scholars of early twentieth century urban and rural Britain, Dr Short offers both a coherent overview and a standard source of reference to this valuable archive. Part I is concerned with the processes of assembling the material and its style of representation; Part II with suggested themes and locality studies. A final chapter places this new material in the context of discourses of state intervention in landed society prior to the Great War.