RECORDS OF THE SUSSEX RECORD SOCIETY

Table of contents

1 Minute books, 1900-1980

2 Subscription account books, 1901-1935, 1946-1965

3 Ledgers, 1901-1974

4 Editorial transcripts and reproductions, 1928-1966

5 English Place-Name Society, 1920s

6 Correspondence and memoranda, 1966-1973

Documents deposited on 15 November 1982 (ACC 2926), 3 May 1994 (ACC 6308), 11 October 1995, March 1996 (ACC 6704), 16 January 2001 (ACC 8267) and 24 August 2007 (ACC 3831)

The Sussex Record Society (SRS) was established at Lewes in 1900 for the publication of important local documents, with the aim of preserving the contents and making them accessible. The proposal to establish the SRS came from its parent organisation, the Sussex Archaeological Society (SAS), who felt that volumes of the SAS would not be able to carry out the work of printing local documents. On 16 October 1900, a provisional committee was set up to draft rules for the membership of the new society and to arrange for the publication of an opening volume in 1901. It was decided that an annual subscription would be levied to cover the cost of producing annual volumes. See Andrew Foster, Leslie Lloyd and Peter Wilkinson,'The Sussex Record Society 1901-2001', in John Farrant, Sussex depicted, Sussex Record Society 85 (2001), 360-76.