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The Poetical Works of William Blake: a new and verbatim text from the manuscript engraved and letterpress originals, , edited by John Sampson, published 1905 (xxxvi + 384 pp., Oxford: Oxford University Press) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Thomas Medwin, published 1913 (592 pp.xxxii + 542 pp,, Oxford University Press) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries   View Online

A new edition printed from a copy copiously amended and extended by the Author and left unpublished at his death

The Politicks of Laurence Sterne, by Lewis Perry Curtis, published 1929 (Oxford University Press)

Patmore: A Study in Poetry, by Frederick Page, published 1933 (Oxford: Oxford University Press) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Journal of Gideon Mantell, Surgeon and Geologist. Covering the Years 1818-1852, edited by Eliot Cecil Curwen, published 1940 (xii + 315 pp., London: Oxford University Press) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503531] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The poems of Coventry Patmore, edited by Frederick Page, published 1949 (506 pp., Oxford: Oxford University Press) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Recording Britain, vol.4: Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, edited by Albert Palmer, published 1949 (Oxford University Press in association with The Pilgrim Trust) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3017]

A Family History: 1688-1837; the Wyndhams of Somerset, Sussex and Wiltshire, by Hugh Archibald Wyndham, published 1950 (64 pp., Oxford University Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 224] & West Sussex Libraries

White Canons in England, by H. M. Colvin, published 1 December 1951 (468 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198212097 & ISBN-13: 9780198212096)

The Piltdown Forgery, by J. S. Weiner, published 1957 (Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press)

It is a remarkable thing that the Sussex Archaeological Society took no official notice whatever of the Piltdon discoveries when they were first made, although they were the subject of eager discussion throughout the scientific world in two Continents, and brought international fame to, at any rate, one aspect of Sussex archaeology. Dr. Weiner, who is Reader in Physical Anthropology at Oxford, and is one of the scientists who was responsible for the discovery of the now well-known fraud, hints that the Society's apathy in this matter may have been due to doubt of the genuineness of the discoveries from the beginning. In this case the 'prophet', Charles Dawson, seems to have enjoyed unlimited honour everywhere, except in his own county and in the Sussex Archaeological Society, of which he was a member - not because Sussex people failed to recognise his merits, but rather, perhaps, because they had better opportunities of realising his weaknesses.
The story of the Piltdown problem and its background, as represented by scientific opinions held at the beginning of the present century regarding the origin and evolution of Man, are fascinatingly outlined by the author, leading on to a consideration of the increasing difficulty felt by palaeontologists in fitting the Piltdown discoveries into the present-day framework of anthropological knowledge. It was the realisation that the remains found at Piltdown could no longer be regarded as a 'missing link', so much as a baffling monster, which led the author to think of the possibility of their being fraudulent, as the only means of resolving the impasse.
The scientific tests to which all the remains were subjected are described in a way that will hold the interest of the ordinary educated reader, and the full significance of each is made clear. A whole battery of chemical and physical tests were brought to bear on the remains by Dr. K. P. Oakley "an array of new techniques . . . exceeding all endeavours of this kind in the whole history of palaeontology," even including tests for radio-activity and crystal structure. The results were completely conclusive, proving that not one of the items was genuinely found at Piltdown or at the neighbouring site at Sheffield Park, but that a carefully selected assortment of fossil remains from a variety of sources, including also a piece of the jaw of a modern orang outang (suitably treated and stained), had been deliberately 'planted' there in order that they should be found by the excavators.
Who, then, could have been responsible for this very discreditable piece of work, and what could have been his motive? The author goes on to review the evidence for this, discussing all the personalities involved, and referring to many past and present members of the Society. All lines of circumstantial evidence seem to point to Charles Dawson as the guilty party, but the author charitably goes on to say, "In the circumstances, can we withhold from Dawson the one alternative possibility, remote though it seems, but which we cannot altogether disprove; that he might, after all, have been implicated in a 'joke', perhaps not his own, which went too far? Would it not be fairer to one who cannot speak for himself to let it go at that?"
The false scent laid at Piltdown has greatly hindered the progress of the study of human palaeontology, and now that it has been eliminated everyone concerned will breath more freely. For the general reader Dr. Weiner's book explains all this in a most readable way, while the account of the detective work on the forgery itself is quite absorbing. Every member of the Society should possess and read this book.

Radical Duke: Career and Correspondence of Charles Lennox, Third Duke of Richmond (1735-1806) , by Alison Olson, published 1961 (Oxford University Press) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

In this book Dr. Olson gives a sketch of the career of Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond, and a selection of his letters to contemporary statesmen. Upright, hardworking and unpopular, his considerable ability failed to achieve success, largely because of a tactlessness which led to his quarrelling with everyone from King George III downwards. Dr. Olson is mainly concerned with his political contacts, and there is little about the good work that he did at the Ordnance Office, and still less about his life at Goodwood, where his building activities were largely responsible for converting his great revenues into great debts.

Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., by A. J. Finberg, published 1 December 1961 (2nd revised edition, 560 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198171366 & ISBN-13: 9780198171362) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, by Ronald Jasper, published 1967 (Oxford University Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 266] & West Sussex Libraries

The Chronicle of Battle Abbey, by Eleanor Searle, published 8 May 1980 (372 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198222386 & ISBN-13: 9780198222385) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503748] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Dukes of Norfolk: A Quincentennial History, by John Martin Robinson, published 1982 (264 pp.. Illus. & pedigree, Oxford University Press & Phillimore, ISBN-13: 9780850339734) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8591] & West Sussex Libraries

The Diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765, by Thomas Turner and edited by David Vaisey, published 1 November 1984 (420 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0192117823 & ISBN-13: 9780192117823) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12976] & The Keep [LIB/503555] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Thomas Turner (1729-1793) was a hard-working and ingenious village shopkeeper in Sussex. In the eleven years of his diary, he recorded the minutiae of everyday village life in pre-industrial England. This edition contains about a third of the massive whole of the diary, but allows Turner to take his rightful place alongside Pepys, Evelyn, and Woodforde as an indispensable English diarist.

Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families in Sussex, 1280-1400 [the Etchinhams of Etchinham, the Sackvilles of Buckhurst, and the Waleyses of Glynde], by Nigel Saul, published 1 October 1986 (216 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198200773 & ISBN-13: 9780198200772) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500094] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Looking at the world of the medieval gentry through the eyes of three families in East Sussex - the Etchinhams of Etchinham, the Sackvilles of Buckhurst, and the Waleyses of Glynde - Scenes from Provincial Life presents an insightful picture of what day-to-day life was like for a member of a knightly family in the Middle Ages. It draws on charters, estate documents, and even information gleaned from buildings and churches of the day to provide an illuminating account of the central preoccupations of landowners - estate management, military service, provision for relatives, and arrangements for schooling.

An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye 1652-1699, edited by Michael Hunter and Annabel Gregory, published 3 March 1988 (312 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198229623 & ISBN-13: 9780198229629) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503538] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Samuel Jeake (1652-1699) was a merchant and nonconformist of Rye in Sussex with a passionate interest in astrology. His diary is here published for the first time; in it he not only recorded the events of his life in detail but subjected them to astrological scrutiny, interspersing his text with horoscopes. The resulting work is one of the most interesting seventeenth-century diaries to be published this century, throwing new light on the history both of astrology and on the topics with which this is juxtaposed in the course of the book - commercial, medical, religious, and intellectual.
The text is prefaced by a lengthy and illuminating introduction which sets the diary in context. Apart from giving a full account of this little-known personality, it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the preoccupations and priorities of Jeake's age, and not least the rationale and affiliations of astrology in the age of the Financial Revolution.

Architecture and Power: The town Hall and the English Urban Community, 1500-1640, by Robert Tittler, published 1991 (Oxford University Press)

John Mason Neale and the Quest for Sobornost, by Leon Litvack, published 1 June 1997 (312 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198263511 & ISBN-13: 9780198263517) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

John Mason Neale (1818-1866), the famous Victorian divine, hymnologist, novelist, historian, and author of the carol `Good King Wenceslas', was also noted for his interest in ecunemism. This book traces Neale's interest in the Orthodox church, as expressed through his historical writings, translations of Greek hymns, and novels set in the Christian East. The work is based on a wide variety of manuscript and published sources for the subject, and demonstrates how this leading light in the Anglo-Catholic revival acted as an exemplary interpreter of Byzantium and Eastern Orthodoxy to the Victorian England of his day. In the context of the present time, when East-West relations are a topical suject, Neale's life and work provide a shining example of how two very different cultures and traditions might approach each other, with fruitful results for both.

The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture, 1540-1640, by Robert Tittler, published 1998 (Oxford University Press)

The Piltdown Forgery, by J. S. Weiner, published 29 January 2004 (248 pp., Oxford University Press, 50th anniversary edition, ISBN-10: 0198607806 & ISBN-13: 9780198607809) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Woodard, Nathaniel, 1811-1891, founder of the Woodard schools, by Janet Pennington, published 2006 in New Dictionary of National Biography (article, Oxford University Press)

Sherley (Shirley), Sir Thomas, c.1542-1612, politician and courtier, by Janet Pennington, published 2006 in New Dictionary of National Biography (article, Oxford University Press)

Percy Bysshe Shelley : the major works, by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill, published 2009 (xxvii + 845 pp., Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199538973) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This freshly edited anthology includes all but one of Shelley's longer poems, from 'Queen Mab' onwards, in their entirety. As well as works such as 'Promethus Unbound', 'The Mask of Anarchy' and 'Adonais', the volume includes a wide range of Shelley's shorter poems, major prose and drama.

Social Relations in Later Prehistory: Wessex in the First Millennium BC, by Niall Sharples, published 25 June 2010 (392 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0199577714 & ISBN-13: 9780199577712)

In this fully illustrated study, Niall Sharples examine the complex social relationships of the Wessex region of southern England in the first millennium BC. He considers the nature of the landscape and manner of its organization, the methods that bring people together into large communities, the role of the individual, and how the region relates to other regions of Britain and Europe. These thematic concerns cover a detailed analysis of the significance of hillforts, the development of coinage and other exchange processes, the character of houses, and the nature of burial practices. Sharples offers an exciting new picture of a period and a region which has considerable importance for British archaeology, and he also provides all archaeologists interested in prehistory with a model of how later prehistoric society can be interpreted.

What relevance has this book on Wessex for Sussex? A little and a lot I think. The former because the book encompasses the far west of Sussex - Chichester and the coastal plain; the latter because it provides a source of ideas with which to rethink aspects of the last millennium BC in our county. Four chapters deal with major themes - the landscape, gifts and exchange, the house and finally the burial record, and this reader found new insights into all of them. An interesting interpretation of hillforts, for example, sees them as competing communal centres in regions populated by many small, antagonistic communities.
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Sussex readers will find reference to some well known sites as Blackpatch, Itford Hill, The Trundle and the Chichester Dykes. Some minor points of disagreement. The author maintains that the siting of the hillfort at The Trundle was not linked in some way to the earlier Neolithic causewayed-camp (page 25); I think it was. And Middle Iron Age multiple-roundhouse settlements at Chalkpit Lane and Westhampnett suggest quite a dense Iron Age occupation of the West Sussex Coastal Plain (pace Sharples page 81). Much of the author's inspiration is derived from extensive reading of ethnography and social anthropology - which makes the archaeological interpretation so much richer.

Portraits, Painters, and Public in Provincial England, 1540-1640, by Robert Tittler, published 2012 (Oxford University Press)