Publications
'John Halsham': the perfect countryman, by Peter Brandon, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, article, pp.213-224) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:John Halsham' was the first to advocate landscape protection for Sussex, and his insightful interpretation of the Sussex Weald (1898-1913) has never been matched. He was also a most distinguished recorder of the lives, histories, habits and speech of the working-class Wealden inhabitants who shaped the region. His observations have left an unsurpassed record of change in the Sussex Weald in a period marking the transition between old and new ways of living. As a true countryman, he is representative of a number of contemporary Sussex writers who sought to repel the twentieth-century changes in the county emanating from London and other large cities.