BATTLE AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BDHS – LENDING LIBRARY
The BDHS Library is a facility for Society members, housed in the Battle Museum of Local History at the top of the High Street.
The Museum Custodians are not permitted to open the bookcases – so please do not ask them to.
Access to the Library is by prior appointment only, and after recent reorganisation, begins 2 June 2014.
To borrow a book – please telephone Diane Braybrooke on 01424-775632.
Your BDHS Membership Card must be shown for free entry to the Museum and to borrow a book.
Diane Braybrooke
BDHS Librarian
Title Author
Anglo Norman Language & Literature John Vising
Anglo-Norman Warfare Matthew Strickland
Anglo Saxon Chronicle to 1154 ?
Anglo Saxon England F M Stanton
Anglo Saxon England & the Norman Conquest H R Loyn
Anglo Saxons Campbell et al
Governance of Anglo Saxon England – 500-1087 H R Loyn
History of England under Anglo-Saxon Kings – Vol.II Benjamin Thorpe
History of the Anglo-Saxons – 2 vols. R H Hodgkin
History of the Anglo Saxons Sir Francis Palgrave
In Saxon Sussex Alec Barr-Hamilton
Life in Norman England O G Tomkereff
Making of the English Nation – Anglo Saxons to Edward I H R Lloyn
Saints & Missionaries of the Anglo Saxon Era D C O Adams
Saxon & Norman Kings Christopher Brake
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Saxon Kings Richard Humble
South Saxons Peter Brandon
1066 – The Story of a Year Dennis Butler
Antiquaries of Hastings & the Battlefield Thomas H Cole
Battle 1066 Brig.C N Barclay
Battle Abbey Roll – 3 vols. Duchess of Cleveland
Battlefields of England Lt.Col. A L Burne
Battle of Hastings Jim Bradbury
Battle of Hastings Stephen Morilla
Battle of Hastings, England & Europe – 1035-1066 Sten Korner
Carmen de Hastingae, Proellio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens. C Morton/Hope Muntz
Conquest 1066 Rupert Funneaux
History of the Norman Conquest – 6 vols. E E Freeman
Norman Conquest – its effects on Economy 1066-1086 R W Finn
Norman Conquest – its setting and impact Whitelock – et al.
Normans R Allen Brown
Normans & their Myths R H C Davis
Normans & the Norman Conquest R Allen Brown
Battle Abbey - Sussex – Official Guide Sir Harold Brakspear
Battle Abbey Under 39 Kings Lilian Boys Behrens
Battle Abbey with notices of Parish Church & Town M EW C Walcott
Catalogue of Battle Abbey Archives, Estate Archives Judith Brent
Chronicle of Battle Abbey M A Lower
Chronicle of Battle Abbey Eleanor Searle
Chronicon – Monasteril de Bello ?
Custumals of Battle Abbey in the reign of Edward I & Edward II S R Scargill Bird
Descriptive Catalogue of Battle Abbey Charters Thomas Thorpe
English Medieval Monasteries 10665-1540 – a summary Roy Midmer
Falaise Roll Crispin & Macary 2
Guide to Battle Abbey C.L.W.C. (Duchess)
History of Battle Abbey Duchess of Cleveland
Lordship & Community 1066-1538 Eleanor Searle
Rule of Saint Ben edict translation – Abbot Gasquet
Sons of the Conqueror George Slocombe
Studies in Medieval History C Harper Bill, et al.
They Came with the Conqueror L G Pine
William I & the Norman Conquest Frank Barlow
William the Conqueror David C Douglas
William the Conqueror Edward Freeman
William the Conqueror George Slocombe
William the Conqueror & the Battle of Hastings R Allen Brown
Abbot’s House at Battle Sir Harold Brakspear
Battle Abbey – The Story of a School June Parker
Battle – Rural Guide – Official Guide ?
Battle – Rural District – Jubilee Review – 1894-1954 ?
Bygone Battle Alywin Guillmant
Church Guide – St Mary the Virgin, Battle ?
Church Guide – St Mary Magdalene, Whatlington ?
History of the Parish Church of Battle Clifford Braybrooke
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Battle Rev.F Vere Hodge
Pilgrims Rest Rev.F Vere Hodge
Short Popular Guide to Battle Lewis H Pyke
Story of St Mary’s Church Rev. W W Youard
Story of the Old Gunpowder Works at Battle Herbert Blackman
Three Sussex Churches – Bound Compilation Grevill M Livett
All Saints Church – Herstmonceux Rev/Rosslyn Bruce
Ashburnham Church (no title) Rev.John Bickeseth
At the Sign of the Bull – Lewes Walter H Godfrey 3
Battle & Robertsbridge in Old Photographs Alan Gillet
Battle of Lewes 1264 Powick/Treharne/Lemmon
Battle of Lewes & Eve sham – 1264-1265 David Carpenter
Bexhill Directory, Guide & Almanac – 1801 ?
Bexhill on Sea – A Pictorial History Alywin Guillmant
Bodiam & its Lords Mark Antony Lower
Bodiam Castle, Sussex Marquis Curzon
Book of Eastbourne Pres.W G Willoughby
Brede – The Story of a Sussex Parish Edmund Austen
Burton’s St Leonards J Mainwaring Baines
Burwash & the Sussex Weald James Goodwin
Bygone Age – Ashburnham & Brasseys Kathleen Richardson
Cryed in Old Hastings 1766-1794 J Mainwaring Baines
Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings William Henry Fiutton
Guide & History of Rye + Political History H P Clark
Hastings Ward Lock
Hastings & Neighbourhood Higins/Haselhurst
Hastings Guide by an inhabitant
Hastings in 1605 J Mainwaring Baines
Historic Hastings J Mainwaring Baines
History & Antiquities of Town & Port of Hastings W Moss
History of Brickwall in Sussex, Parish of Northiam & Brede A L Frewin
History of Cowden Guy Ewing
Life in Catsfield 1800-1910 – History of our Doorstep D Phillips/Parish Council
Mountfield Meanderings – Vol.1 Patricia A Jones
Mountfield Meanderings – Vol.2 Patricia A Jones
New History of Rye L A Vidler
Ninfield in the Nineties Alfred T Ridel
Notes on the Church & Manor of Crowhurst M E Newman
Old Town Hastings – a pictorial guide James Meredsith
Penhurst Church near Battle Rev.J D Bickersteth 4
Pevensey & Westham Guides to town & Church – Bound ?
Romney Marsh Walter J C Murray
Romney Marsh John Piper
Rye Church Clock E J Tyler
Short History of the Parish of Salehurst Leonard J Hodson
Story of Bexhill LJ Barley
Story of Kin g Edward & New Winchelsea F A Inderwick
Story of St Peters, Bexhill Clifford Earwaker
Tudor Rye Graham Mayhew
Twenty Centuries in Sedlescombe Beryl Lucey
Victorian & Edwardian Brighton from old Photographs J Betjeman/J S Grey
Winchelsea – a Port of Stranded Pride Malcolm Pratt
Winchelsea – the tale of a Medieval Town Malcolm Pratt
Wivelsfield Captain F W Attree
County Geologies – Pedigree of families – County of Sussex William Berry
Cowdray – its early History Torrens Trotter
East Sussex Sentences of Transportation at Quarter Sessions Roger Davey
Fuller of Sussex – a Georgian Squire Geoff Hutchinson
Glimpses of our Ancestors in Sussex Charles Fleet
Index of East Sussex Parish Records – 1275-1870 Michael J Burchall
Kipling’s Sussex R Thurston Hopkins
Life & Labour of Mr Brassey 1805-1870 Arthur Helps
Recollections of a Sussex Parson – Rev.Edward Boyls Ellman Rev.Ellman
Scenes from Provincial Life – Knightly Families – Sussex – 1240-1400 Nigel Saul
Sussex Election – 1820 ?
Sussex Genealogies Compiled by J Comber
Sussex Life – Memories of Gilbert Sargeant D Arthur – editor
T.A.B. – Memoir of Thomas Allnutt (2nd Earl Brassey) Frank Partridge
Victorian Village – Diaries of Rev.Coker Egerton 1857-1888 Roger Wells
Worthies of Sussex Mark Antony Lower 5
Writers in Sussex B Smith/P Haas
A Childhood in Edwardian Sussex Margaret Hutchinson
An Old Gate of England A G Bradley
Around Historic Sussex Drawings – Gerald Lip
Around Historic Sussex with Ray Miller Ray Miller
Bygone Sussex William E A Axon
Cinque Ports Ford M Hueffer
Cinque Ports & Romney Marsh Margaret Brentnall
County Maps & Histories – Sussex V Scott/H Barty-King
Detective in Sussex Donald Maxwell
Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect Rev. W D Parish
Domesday Book – Sussex ?
Downland Pathways –s East Sussex A Hadrian Allcroft
Folklore of Sussex Jacqueline Simpson
Hidden Sussex Day by Day Arden Swinfen/D Arscott
Historical, Topographical & Descriptive Account – Weald of Kent T D W Dearn
Highways & Byways in Sussex E V Lucas
History, Antiquities & Topography of the County of Sussex – 2 vols. Thomas Walter Horsfield
History of Sussex J R Armstrong
History of Sussex – 2 vols. Mark Antony Lower
History of Sussex L F Salzman
History of the Weald of Kent – Vol.I & II – 3 books Robert Furley
History, People & Places in the Cinque Ports Edward Hinings
Jutish Forest – Study of Weald of Kent 450-1380 K P Witney
Kent J Charles Cox
Kingdom of Kent K P Whitney
Land of the Cinque Ports Rowland Hilder
Lost Villages of Sussex John E Wigar
Motoring in Sussex & Kent Mrs R Stawell
Nooks & Corners in Old Sussex Rev. P dePutron 6
Notes on Sussex Churches – 1920 & 1`906 – 2 books Frederick Harrison
Off the Beaten Track in Sussex Arthur Stanley Cooke
Old Sussex & her Dialects Arthur J Rees
Parry’s – The Coast of Sussex J D Parry
Place Names of Sussex – Part I & Part II ?
Portrait of Sussex Cecile Woodford
Prehistoric Sussex E Cecil Curwen
Rambles in Sussex F G Brabant
Roman Ways in the Weald J D Margery
Round About Sussex Downs Fredk. F Wood
Seaward Sussex – South Downs from End to End Edric Holmes
Shepherds of Sussex Charclay Wills
Short History of Sussex John Lowerson
Sky High – Sussex – Aerial Journey British Library
Smuggling in Kent & Sussex – 1700-1840 Mary Waugh
Some Sussex Byways Viscountess Wolseley
South Down Farm in the Sixties Maude Robinson
Southdown Songs & Idylls A Stanley Cooke
South East England – The Channel Coastlands R Millard/A Robinson
Spirit of the Downs Arthur Becket
Story of Sussex W Victor Cook
Sussex F G Brabant
Sussex Augustus Hare
Sussex Esther Meynell
Sussex S Winbolt/E Ward
Sussex – 1600-1660 – A Community in Peace and War Antony Fletcher
Sussex & the Spanish Armada Jeremy Goring
Sussex Coast Ian C Hannah
Sussex Cottages Esther Meynell
Sussex County Book S C Kendell
Sussex Folk & Sussex Ways John Coker Egerton 7
Sussex – Garden by the Sea Arthur Mee
Sussex Garland Ton y Wales
Sussex in Bygone Days N P Baker
Sussex Landscape Peter Brandon
Sussex One Hundred Years Ago Frank Graham
Sussex Shipwrecks Nicholas Thornton
Sussex Views – Selection from Burrell Collection Goidfrey/Salzman
Sussex Villages Michael H C Baker
Tales from the Parish Pump – 100 Years Parish Councils in E Sussex. David Arsett
That Peace in our Time P Longshaft-Tyrall
Tomorrow in East Sussex Sussex Rural Community Council
Topographical History of Surrey & Sussex George L Gomme
Unknown Sussex David Maxwell
Victorian & Edwardian Sussex from Old Photographs James S Gray
Victorian Churches of Sussex Dr Robert Elleray
Victorian History – History of Susszex in 2 vols. Wm. Page – Editor
Victorian History – History of East Sussex – Vol.IX Wm. Page – Editor
Views of Sussex Ben Darby
Weald of Kent & Sussex Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
Agriculture & Soil of Kent, Surrey & Sussex A D Hall/E J Russell
Archaeology of Sussex E Cecil Curwen
Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology of S E England A J Haselfoot
Brick & Tile Making at Ashburnham Kim Leslie & Jack Harmer
Brickmaking in Sussex – A History & Gazetteer M Beswick
Framed Building of the Weald R T Maston
Glass Industry of the Weald G H Kenyon
Iron Industry of the Weald H Cleere/D Crossley
Rails Across the Weald S G Newton
Rescue Archaeology in Sussex P Drewett
Rye Pottery ? 8
Some of the Smaller Manor Houses in Sussex Viscountess Wolseley
Survey of Agriculture of Sussex R H B Jesse
Sussex Pottery J Mainwaring Baines
Wealden Firebacks J Mainwaring Baines
Wealden Iron Ernest Straker
Windmills in Sussex Rev.Petewr Hemming
Ancient British Coins Ernest Willett
Archaeology or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity 15 various authors
Civil Service Commission – 1835-1975 K M Reader
History of the British Iron & Steel Industry H R Schubert
In the Wake of the Hurricane Bob Ogley
Mystery of the Town Creep Kathleen Richardson
Piltdown Forger J S Weiner
Queen’s Gunstonemaker Edmund Teasdale
Richard III John Gillingham
Richard the Lionheart John Gillingham
We also have some copies of the following:-
BDHS Journals
Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo Norman Studies
Sussex Archaeological Collection
Sussex Record Society
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