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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of Sussex is part of the national series called the Victoria County History (V.C.H.), planned around the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 to create a comprehensive encyclopaedia of English local history.

For each of the 39 historic English counties there exists or is planned a set of volumes containing a separate history of each town and rural parish as well as covering some general topics for the county as a whole. Over 220 volumes have been published, and 12 counties have been completed. Work is in progress on 14 counties.

The set of V.C.H. volumes planned for Sussex, as for other counties, contains articles of two kinds. General articles cover aspects of the county's history as a whole. Topographical articles cover the separate histories of towns and rural parishes place by place.

Twelve volumes of the Sussex V.C.H. have now been published.

Page created: 26 November 2003
Last reviewed: 18 February 2010