West Sussex Archives Society

11/08/2026

We are looking forward to James Sainsbury's talk on Saturday 5th September! The talk starts at 2pm and there will be a break for refreshments halfway through. Non-members welcome, £10. For details of how to pay by bank transfer please email [email protected]

10/08/2026

WSAS member Alan Green, will be talking at this event and his book 'Mr Cawley's Almshouse' has just been reprinted and will be on sale!

26/07/2026

The latest newsletter can now be downloaded from our website. Booking details for our September, October and November events can be found on pages 14-15.
https://wsas.co.uk/the-researcher-newsletters

18/07/2026

Our visit to Ardingly College this afternoon. We had an interesting guided tour with college archivist Laura, and regaled with (sometimes alarming!) school memories from a former pupil, Richard Howell, our chairman!

22/06/2026

We were pleased to take part in this enjoyable, well organised event. It was useful to connect with some other local societies.

17/06/2026

Sign up for this new newsletter from the Record Office!
(WSAS members will still receive our own quarterly newsletter, ‘The Researcher’, by email. All issues of ‘The Researcher’ can also be downloaded from our website).

✉️ To mark Sussex Day this year, we are launching our new newsletter! Every quarter we’ll be sharing news on forthcoming talks and workshops, publications, online historical resources, research guides, blog articles, collections recently catalogued or digitised, and service announcements. Sign up here: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKWSCC/subscriber/new?topic_id=UKWSCC_1193

16/06/2026

Our July event is for members and their guests only and limited to twenty people - we have ten booked to date (16 June) - so please book soon if you want to be sure of a place.

15/06/2026

Our secretary Leigh Lawson and her husband Richard had another four successful "open afternoons" at their 19th century bakehouse in Broadwater this year, as a fund raiser for WSAS. Over 40 visitors came and saw a collection of related documents and artefacts. It was particularly special to share this piece of history with fourteen local Brownies who enjoyed using the wooden hot cross bun tool on their salt dough 'buns'.

06/06/2026

St John's Chapel in Chichester was a peaceful refuge on a wet and windy afternoon. We had an interesting talk from Alan Green who has written a definitive book on the chapel which opened in 1813, and Dr Alan Thurlow, former organist at Chichester Cathedral, demonstrated the recently restored organ.

28/05/2026

This event is being held on behalf of WSAS, helping to raise funds for the purchase of historical West Sussex documents. Email [email protected] for booking details. Open on four afternoons 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th June from 2-4pm.