With an entertaining and highly detailed narrative, Peter Brandon takes us on a tour of Sussex's market towns, hills, castles, seaside resorts, gardens, and churches, from Brighton to Ashdown Forest, and from Gatwick Airport to the Ouse. Every feature of the county is covered. Sussex has often been featured in art and literature over the centuries, not to mention in the chronicles of history, and to this day it remains a center of national cultural significance. With its exquisite natural beauty, varied landscapes, local traditions, international transport systems, diverse communities, and strong links with the worlds of education and music, Sussex is still one of the most interesting and important counties in Britain. Dr Brandon's erudition and his infectious enthusiasm for his native home make Sussex a fascinating read for anyone interested not only in the county but in English history.

The Sussex landscape (The Making of the English landscape)

Travel

Brandon,Peter

Europe

Hodder and Stoughton

The South East from 1000 AD (Regional History of England)

A volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England, this covers the landcape and society of the modern counties of Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Greater London, south of the Thames from late Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The authors have tried to show the diversity that can be found within the region as well as common characteristics which illustrate the local peculiarities of the area. The works in the series offer a synthesis of both historical and archaeological work in local areas. Each region is covered in two linked but independent volumes, the first covering the period up to AD 1000 and necessarily relying on archaeological data, and the second bringing the story up to modern times. It aims to portray life as it was experienced by the majority of people of South Britain or England as it was to become. The authors look at the major historical events which have an impact on the reagion - wars, plagues, technological changes and socio-cultural trends amongst them - but they also stress the underlying continuity of rural and urban life.

History

Short, Brian

Routledge

A volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England. The authors have tried to show the diversity that can be found within the region as well as common characteristics which illustrate the local peculiarities of the area. The works in the series offer a synthesis of both historical and archaeological work in local areas. Each region is covered in two linked but independent volumes, the first covering the period up to AD 1000 and necessarily relying on archaeological data, and the second bringing the story up to modern times. It aims to portray life as it was experienced by the majority of people of South Britain or England as it was to become.

The South East from AD 1000 (Regional History of England)

Addison-Wesley

Sussex

Robert_Hale

Sussex has often been featured in art and literature over the centuries, not to mention in the chronicles of history, and to this day it remains a center of national cultural significance. With its exquisite natural beauty, varied landscapes, local traditions, international transport systems, diverse communities, and strong links with the worlds of education and music, Sussex is still one of the most interesting and important counties in Britain. With an entertaining and highly detailed narrative, this informative guide takes us on a tour of Sussex’s market towns, hills, castles, seaside resorts, gardens and churchesfrom Brighton to Ashdown Forest, and from Gatwick Airport to the Ouse.  Every feature of the county is covered, making this the perfect all-inclusive guide for anyone interested not only in the county but in English history.

The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generations of farmers, ranging from Europe's oldest inhabitants right up until the 21st century. '... possibly the most important book to have been written on the South Downs in the last half-century ... The South Downs have found their perfect biographer.' Downs Country

The South Downs

Phillimore Co Ltd

Surrey reveals an indomitable character, in its life and scenery, which has survived the relentless advance of London. Dr Brandon's first edition of this book, in 1977, was widely praised for its original and perceptive analysis of the tension between the ancient rural country and its burgeoning and intrusive neighbour, the metropolis. For a long time the most popular book on Surrey in print, it has gone through several reprints with some revisions. With its taut, concise yet comprehensive text, this edition will be as warmly welcomed in those parts of ancient Surrey now urban or suburban as in the remaining rural areas. Dr Brandon has ensured that this book will retain its popularity.

A History of Surrey

The South Saxons

Phillimore

Surrey affords good examples of prosperous peasant life at the woodland margin in the Middle Ages and had some of the best developed industry before the Industrial Revolution. The landscape gardening which has made the county unrivalled in its still beautifully contrived scenery is a major contribution to the arts of Western Europe. "Dr. Brandon is meticulous in charting Surrey's growth ... detailed but not dull ..." Surrey Advertiser

A history of Surrey

The Sussex landscape is here celebrated by writers and poets, both famous and lesser-known, as we trace their search for rural peace and beauty in the tumultuous years 1850 to 1939. For the first time we trace the corpus of Sussex writing which was connected to those wider events but was equally a hymn of praise to rural Sussex, seen as nourishing, sympathetic and, for some, a retreat from the stresses of burgeoning city life or the horrors of mechanised warfare. We meet Wilfred Blunt and learn of his love for his Wealden countryside; we encounter the complex &nbsp;Hilaire Belloc; the acute observations of Richard Jefferies and Rudyard Kipling; and the modernity of Virginia Woolf. Lesser-known writers are included too, such as Charles Dalmon or Dr Habberton Lulham, who loved spending time with the downland shepherds or with travelling folk among the byways of the county.

Sussex Writers in their Landscape: Self-fulfilment in the Age of the Machine

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The History Press

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The Sussex landscape (The Making of the English landscape)

The South East from 1000 AD (Regional History of England)

The South East from AD 1000 (Regional History of England)

Sussex

Sussex

The South Downs

A History of Surrey

The South Saxons

A history of Surrey

Sussex Writers in their Landscape: Self-fulfilment in the Age of the Machine