Duncan Crow, West Sussex County Council Cabinet Member for Fire and Rescue and Communities, said: “The West Sussex Record Office’s partnership with Screen Archive South East has always been a remarkable and unique collaboration, allowing visitors to see another facet of history. England, Sussex, Parish Registers, 1538-1910 — FamilySearch.org The West Sussex Record Office at Orchard Street, Chichester, holds the archives for the county of West Sussex. Help with searching the Record Office catalogue (PDF, 345KB) They record every aspect of its people, organisations, and way of life. The Record Office will be closed until further notice due to the pandemic. Maps The Record Office has a fine collection of maps of West Sussex ranging from the late 16th century to the present day. Images featured on this blog should not be reproduced without permission from West Sussex Record Office. Wartime diary of Mr William Burch of Chichester, 1939-1945. Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day, Today, we mark International Women’s Day by taking a look at one of the lesser-known but no less important political groups which advocated women’s suffrage during the early 20th century. (3) The local government records of West Sussex County Council and other local bodies. The earliest document dates from 1101, but we will consider taking in records from last week if we think they’ll be of interest to future generations. Welcome back to a special festive edition of West Sussex Unwrapped! ESRO’s holdings cover the whole of East Sussex and Brighton and Hove. Screen Archive South East will showcase a film of the funeral of Emily Davison, the renowned British suffragette who died at Epsom Derby. The Keep is a world-class centre for archives that opens up access to all the collections of the East Sussex Record Office (ESRO), the Royal Pavilion & Museums Local History Collections and the internationally significant University of Sussex Special Collections. We are temporarily closed. My main exposure to it came during my 1990s Friends obsession,…, Continue reading ➞ Thanksgiving: A Transatlantic Ties update. It is run by West Sussex County Council. There are two one-day workshops a year, held at the Record Office and run by archivists from the Record Office. We are temporarily closed. Then discover more about West Sussex Christmases gone by through a multitude of festive records … The entries have been extracted by a team of volunteers in the West Sussex Record Office, organised by Peter Wilkinson Database of Poor Law records for West Sussex sets out to bring together the fullest picture yet to be achieved of an almost invisible community: the English rural poor from 1662 to 1835 on West Sussex Unwrapped: Festive edition! The holdings of East Sussex Record Office (ESRO) make up the majority of the archives at The Keep. Gipps spent his days patrolling…, Continue reading ➞ The (futile) war on smuggling: Accounts from the archives, Welcome back to a special festive edition of West Sussex Unwrapped! The activities of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and their leaders – Millicent Fawcett…, Continue reading ➞ West Sussex Unwrapped II: Month 2 – Votes for Women! 550 Followers, 178 Following, 375 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from West Sussex Record Office (@westsussexro) E-mail: records.office@westsussex.gov.uk Address: West Sussex Record Office 3 Orchard Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1DD United Kingdom. Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day. Temporary closure of West Sussex Record Office Following Government advice on COVID-19 and to ensure the safety of staff and visitors, West Sussex Record Office will be closed until further notice. Marriage licences Our Record Office collection of information on marriages dating back to 1650. Gillian is working with teams of volunteers in the West Sussex Record Office to sort through and list the 1,000 boxes of paper files which constitute 50 years’ worth of potential material for the Chichester Festival Theatre’s archive – the keystone of the Pass It On project. Read the blog, watch the film, follow the fun! Look out for Episode 2 on International Women’s Day, Monday the 8th of March! West Sussex is now under national lockdown: stay at home. In 2016, West Sussex Record Office is celebrating its 70th Anniversary. Read on to find out how and why this changed. Watch Screen Archive South East's wonderful film footage featuring the Williams family of East Grinstead on Christmas Day, 1967-1970. 1,017 likes. There is a long rich history there, you may be able to discover some of that history at the local record’s office. Brought to you by Screen Archive South East and West Sussex Record Office, this new collaborative project will delve deep into the county’s heritage, presenting a multi-media mix of old film footage, photographs, blogs and unique documents which together offer a different approach to experiencing archival material at home. Christmas on Film Family Christmas in East…. Then discover more about West Sussex Christmases gone by through a multitude of festive records … Sussex parish registers containing baptisms, marriages/banns, and burials. West Sussex Record Office, Chichester, West Sussex. This follows the structure as it existed for much of the 20th century. In the archive, there is a report from 1806 (Add Mss 2610) which its author endorsed as "a most stupid, bombast report drawn by me for Captn. It's author, Job Gipps, was the Commander of the "Hawk" Revenue Cutter moored at Littlehampton. Prepare for your visit to the Record Office by searching our online catalogue. The county of Sussex England has a total of 1,609,500 residents when you combine East Sussex, West Sussex, and Brighton and Hove together. Changes in the title and constitution of the divisions are noted in the body of the catalogue. Collections of family papers can hold a surprising array of documents concerning a…, Continue reading ➞ THE CORFIELD PAPERS – A New Accession: Part One, By Jo McConville, Project Archivist "United States Capitol, Washington, D. C." by Boston Public Library is licensed under CC BY 2.0 The day finally arrives for Joe Biden’s inauguration as 46th president of the United States, following an extraordinary few months of controversy and division since his election victory in early November, culminating in the…, Continue reading ➞ Transatlantic Ties: January 2021 Update – Inaugurations, MPs and Presidents, Continue reading ➞ Mapping West Sussex – Part One: Military Maps and Tithe Tiffs, By Alice Millard, Research Assistant. To help commemorate International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, we look at the Women’s Freedom League, a splinter group from the Suffragettes, and their non-violent methods of campaign. 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Find out more about this mid-century concrete metropolis through the archives. Holdings include County, District and Parish records, Sussex Diocesan records, local business archives, solicitors records, community groups and personal family and estate collections. West Sussex and the Women’s Freedom League, By Kim Leslie (with an Introduction by Nichola Court) In his first blog, Kim Leslie introduced us to some of his more colourful ancestors, whose lives – at times, dramatic - are revealed in his family papers – The Corfield Papers. (Add Mss 46432) Brought to you by Screen Archive South East (SASE) and West Sussex Record Office, series II of our collaborative eight-month project will delve deep into the county’s heritage, presenting a multi-media mix of old film footage, photographs, blogs and unique documents which together offer a different approach to experiencing archival material at home. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Reject Read More Then discover more about West Sussex Christmases gone by through a multitude of festive records from the archives. Where estate papers or title-deeds were loose in boxes or in a confused state they have been arranged in chronological order. Visit our website for further information. Telephone: 01243 753602 Hours and holidays: Mon. It includes over 700 digitised sources about life in West Sussex during World War II. Watch Screen Archive South East's wonderful film footage featuring the Williams family of East Grinstead on Christmas Day, 1967-1970. You can read more on the TT project here. Watch Screen Archive South East's wonderful film footage featuring the Williams family of East Grinstead on Christmas Day, 1967-1970. Next month, we’ll be looking at the History of Women’s Suffrage in Sussex. For a long time, I didn’t really ‘get’ Thanksgiving. In his second blog, Kim focuses on his grandfather, Dr Carruthers Corfield, whose papers…, Continue reading ➞ THE CORFIELD PAPERS – A New Accession: Part Two, Today Crawley is a thriving town of over 110,000 people and is the largest inland town in West Sussex. Re-developed in the 1950s, Crawley hailed a new era of town planning ideals.