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Published in Summer 2018. For more information visit: Chichester Area researchcollection.chi.ac.uk Research Libraries and Archives GUIDE Please recycle after use Welcome This guide presents a picture of the strengths of the libraries and collections in the city of Chichester and in the surrounding area. It has been prepared and published by the organisations represented to encourage new research by members of local and national institutions, academic or otherwise, and by private readers and researchers who wish to explore and extend their own interests. For more information visit: researchcollection.chi.ac.uk Contents Arundel Castle Library 4 CASS Sculpture Foundation Collection and Archive 5 Chichester Cathedral Library 6 Chichester Reference Library’s Local Studies Collection 7 Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens 8 The Novium Museum 9 Pallant House Gallery Library and Archive 10 Tangmere Military Aviation Museum 11 University of Chichester Special Collections and Archives 12 The Weald & Downland Living Museum Library, Artefacts, & Archive 13 West Dean College Library 14 West Sussex Record Office 15 Map of Chichester Area Research Libraries and Archives 18 2 3 © Arundel Castle © Sophie Bolesworth/CASS Sculpture Foundation Arundel Castle Library CASS Sculpture Foundation Collection and Archive Arundel Castle is the repository for the archives of the Earls of Arundel and the Dukes of CASS Sculpture Foundation was established in 1992 and was conceived as a unique not-for- Norfolk, and as such, it relates to their estates in over 20 English counties, as well as to their profit commissioning and educational organisation, providing a platform for emerging and mid- political and personal lives. Nevertheless, with Arundel being the seat of the Earls of Arundel career artists to achieve new levels of ambition. The site is open to the public and home to an until the mid-16th century and of the Dukes of Norfolk from 1778 to the present day, much of ever-changing display of sculptures that has included work by over 300 artists including Anthony the archive relates solely to Sussex. It is a collection rich in estate material, from manorial rolls to Caro, Tony Cragg, Laura Ford, Andy Goldsworthy, Elisabeth Frink and Eduardo Paolozzi, as well estate accounts, old maps and plans, early title deeds, correspondence, architectural drawings as an exciting programme of exhibitions and educational events. and photographs. These, together with records of castle staff and estate workers going back to the 18th century, provide a unique historical resource. The CASS collection houses a unique selection of maquettes and works on paper, gifted to the Foundation by artists as part of the commissioning process. These are works in their own right, Material must be booked in advance. As a private archive without public funding, we do make but also reveal different artists’ approaches to this preparatory stage of the creative process, and a charge for research access, with details available via our website. the development of works from concept through to full-scale realisation. The ducal Library is an antiquarian resource, is on display in the Castle, and is available for The archive provides a rich, in-depth insight into the commissioning and artistic process. specialist scholarly research by prior request. Its catalogue and that of the Archives can be It includes correspondence, sketches, photographs, press cuttings, ephemera, publications, read online at www.arundelcastle.org. Access to the library is by appointment. audio-visual material and documentation relating to the fabrication, sale and exhibition of works. Find out more We offer tours of the collection, which can be booked in advance. To enquire about tours, • Email: [email protected] as well as accessing the archive for research, please use the contact details below. • Tel: 01903 882173 • www.arundelcastle.org Find out more • Email: [email protected] • Tel: 01243 538 449 • www.sculpture.org.uk Cass Sculpture Foundation 4 For more information visit: researchcollection.chi.ac.uk For more information visit: researchcollection.chi.ac.uk 5 © Chichester Cathedral © West Sussex County Council Chichester Cathedral Library Chichester Reference Library’s Local Studies Collection The Cathedral Library, although a worthy repository of learning, has a chequered history. The Local Studies collection at Chichester library is countywide in scope and the 8000 items To quote Francis Steer, ‘Far too many books have been lost by war, salvage, fire, ignorance and include books, street directories, maps, newspapers, newspaper cuttings, ephemera and indifference’. Much of the medieval library was dispersed during the Reformation; many books periodicals. There are books covering most towns and villages in West Sussex as well as were lost during the Civil War. Thankfully the stock has been replenished by various donations specific topics. A collection of original or microfiche street directories cover Chichester, and bequests, including the collection of Bishop Henry King. Bognor and surrounding areas, and countywide Sussex directories from 1828 to 1938. The present library houses an eclectic collection of books, manuscripts, documents, Local newspapers are available on microfilm or digitally. Among the titles are the oldest county photographs and pictures. It is rich in editions of works of the Church Fathers; many of the newspaper, the Sussex Weekly Advertiser from 1747, Sussex Agricultural Express from 1837 volumes are in their original bindings. There are many books on theology, along with early and West Sussex Gazette from 1860 as well as various Chichester and Bognor titles from 1860 printed editions of Bibles and prayer books. Other subjects represented include English and to date. Public access computers have searchable high resolution pdf newspapers covering all local history, topography, hymnology, liturgy, and ecclesiastical and other biographies. parts of West Sussex for the periods 1914-25 and 1939-45. Ephemera and newspaper cuttings files cover topics and places across the county. Sussex periodicals include Sussex Archaeological Two examples of noteworthy texts: William Whitaker’s 1585 edition of the controversy Collections, Sussex County Magazine and Sussex Record Society volumes and local titles such between a leading Anglican apologist, Bishop John Jewel of Salisbury, and the Jesuit Thomas as Chichester History. Harding. This work, printed in Geneva, has a polished calf binding inscribed in gold stamping. Also we have a beautiful Benedictine missal from 1481, ‘Office of the Holy Spirit’, here used for Chichester library has free internet access available via wifi or public access computers, the the cover of this leaflet. It contains some musical notation, is rubricated, and has an illuminated latter having Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. There are also full-page painting of the crucifixion. free scanning facilities plus study space. Find out more Find out more • Email: [email protected] • Tel: 01243 777351 • Tel: 01243 813587 • www.westsussex.gov.uk • www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/library • www.westsussexpast.org.uk 6 For more information visit: researchcollection.chi.ac.uk For more information visit: researchcollection.chi.ac.uk 7 © Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens © The Novium Museum Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens The Novium Museum The core of the Fishbourne Roman Palace research library was donated to the site in 2014 by The Novium Museum is the collecting museum for the administrative area of Chichester District Patrick Crosbie, a historian who had spent a lifetime building this impressive collection. The Council. It cares for an estimated 500,000 items which tell the story of the district over the past Crosbie collection focusses on all aspects of Roman life and Roman history, and is augmented by 500,000 years. The collections are divided into the subcategories of archaeology, social history the Palace’s own collection of volumes on local and practical archaeology. It contains nearly 2000 (including ephemera), art, photographs, geology, oral history and a small collection of volumes in total and is likely the most extensive Roman/archaeological library in the region. In ethnographic material. The museums’ social history collection contains items relating to addition it contains a variety of archaeological and historical journals, including a nearly complete domestic, community and work life from the 17th-21st century. Highlights include factory and set of Sussex Archaeological Collections. advertising material relating to Shippams, material relating to significant local industries and activities such as leather tanning, brewing and soft drink production, policing, the livestock The library includes site reports for all of the key local archaeological sites, and is complemented market and the tramway. Highlights of the archaeology collection include prehistoric ritual by the site’s own reserve collection of artefacts and paper archives from these sites. While material, major late Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon cemetery groups, items from several volumes cannot be taken off site, a research room is available and photocopying facilities can be Roman villas, and finds from urban and rural sites of all periods. provided by arrangement (for which a charge may be applicable). The museums’ photograph collection contains images dating from the 19th-21st centuries. If you would like to see a catalogue for the library collection, please