Chichester Local History Society
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future
Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
Would you like to read an engaging, informative well-written account of Sussex and Chichester? If so, I strongly recommend The Rising Down (2024), by Professor Alexandra Harris – possibly the most significant contribution to the history of Sussex in the past decade, even this century. The geographical span of the book, centred on the Arun…
It is with regret we have to announce the death on 22 April, at age 91, of Ken Green, one of – or more precisely the – founder of our Society. Ken was a proud Cicestrian, being born in this fair city in April 1932 and receiving the classic education for a Chichester boy –…
The Chairman’s Occasional Blog The news that Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 has been restored, with the hope that it may run again on Coniston Water, has a link to Chichester, albeit tenuous. Donald’s father, Sir Malcolm Cambell, first broke the land-speed record for a car on Pendine Sands, near Tenby in South Wales in September…
Some observations on the life and times of St Wilfrid by Professor Philip Robinson Chairman of Chichester Local History Society