Publications
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester 1920-1958, by Lancelot Mason, published 1954 (18 pp., Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance) 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
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, on the morality of war, by David Hein, published December 1989 in Anglican and Episcopal History (vol. 58, no. 4, article, pp.498-509)
George Bell (1883-1958) was the Bishop from 1929.
Some Sussex Women Who Strayed Part 3, by Brian Roser, published September 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 3, article, pp.106-108) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508810] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Caroline Hopper née Butterworth? was convicted of larceny in 1826 and a death sentence was recorded for her but this was commuted to Life and she sailed in 1827 to Van Diemen's Land. Sarah Bell saw the judge don his sepulchral black cap and heard him intone the death sentence for larceny. She was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1828.
Bell of Chichester (1883-1958): A Prophetic Bishop, edited by Paul Foster, published 27 February 2004 (Otter memorial papers, no. 17, revised edition, 184 pp., Chichester: University College, ISBN-10: 0948765844 & ISBN-13: 9780948765841) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, by Maggie Humm, published 20 December 2005 (240 pp., London: Tate, ISBN-10: 1854376721 & ISBN-13: 9781854376725) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:In this enthralling portrait, Maggie Humm makes available, for the first time, a wealth of barely known photographs, both amateur and professional, that cast new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, as well as the historical, cultural, and artistic milieux of their circle in Bloomsbury and beyond. We visit the domestic lives of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers and artists, such as E. M. Forster, who is pictured happily pruning trees with Leonard Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are intimate portraits of Vanessa Bell's children and erotic photos of Duncan Grant's lovers.
Please tell the Bishop of Chichester': George Bell and the internment crisis of 1940, by Charmian Brinson and Charmain Brinson, published 2008 in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte (vol. 21, no. 2, article, pp.287-299)
George Bell (1883-1958) was the Bishop from 1929. He helped interned Germans.
George Bell Poems, edited by Paul Foster, published 3 October 2008 (40 pp., Chichester: University College, ISBN-10: 0948765275 & ISBN-13: 9780948765278) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship, by Andrew Chandler, published 29 February 2016 (208 pp., Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, ISBN-10: 0802872271 & ISBN-13: 9780802872272) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear from Andrew Chandler's new biography of George Kennedy Allen Bell (1883-1958).
As he traces the arc of Bell's life, Chandler shows how his story reshapes our perspective on Bonhoeffer's life and times. In addition to serving as Bishop of Chichester, Bell was an internationalist and ecumenical leader, one of the great Christian humanists of the twentieth century, a tenacious critic of the obliteration bombing of enemy cities during World War II, and a key ally of those who struggled for years to resist Hitler in Germany itself. This inspiring biography raises important questions that still haunt the moral imagination today: When should the word of protest be spoken? When should nations go to war, and how should they fight? What are our obligations to the victims of dictators and international conflict?
As he traces the arc of Bell's life, Chandler shows how his story reshapes our perspective on Bonhoeffer's life and times. In addition to serving as Bishop of Chichester, Bell was an internationalist and ecumenical leader, one of the great Christian humanists of the twentieth century, a tenacious critic of the obliteration bombing of enemy cities during World War II, and a key ally of those who struggled for years to resist Hitler in Germany itself. This inspiring biography raises important questions that still haunt the moral imagination today: When should the word of protest be spoken? When should nations go to war, and how should they fight? What are our obligations to the victims of dictators and international conflict?