Whatever Happened to Fanny Cornforth?

[This story was published on November 2 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original story at victorianist.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/whatever-happened-to-fanny-cornforth.] [Image: Bocca Baciata, Dante … More

Mythic Monsters, Living Fossils, and Liminal Spaces: The Essex Serpent

[This story was published on October 14 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original story at victorianist.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/neo-victorian-review-mythic-monsters-living-fossils-and-liminal-spaces-the-essex-serpent.] In late September … More

Darwin, Photography, and the ‘Screaming Victorians’ of Anthony Rhys’s Visual Biofiction

Or; Whose Biofiction is it Anyway? [This story was published on September 23 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original … More

Tales from the Archives: Unearthing an iron foundry

[This story was published on September 8 in the Observer series. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/nostalgia-fernhurst-iron-foundry-unearthed-1-7562966.] [All images: West Sussex … More

Superstitions, old wives’ tales and the Devil: haunted histories at Brighton’s Preston Manor

[This story was published on September 2 in the Brighton and Hove Independent. Read the original story at brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/superstition-haunted-histories-preston-man] Preston Manor’s current … More

Remembering Russian Royalty

This story was published on August 18 in the Shoreham Herald. Read the original story at shorehamherald.co.uk/news/remembering-russian-royalty-at-shoreham-church-1-7527358] [All images: John and Jeannette Simpson] The … More

Volunteers help unearth woodland’s secrets

[This story was published on August 11 in the Observer series. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/volunteers-help-unearth-woodland-s-secrets-1-7518115] [All images: South Downs … More

The daredevil dirt track racer of Eastergate

[This story was published on July 28 in the Observer series. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/local/nostalgia-daredevil-biker-s-golden-anniversary-1-7496702.] [All images: West … More

Exhibition and trail map explore Chichester’s role in the Great War

[This story was published on July 21 in the Observer series. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/local/exhibition-and-trail-map-explore-chichester-s-role-in-the-great-war-1-7485999.] [All images: West Sussex … More

Tales from the Archives: Pub’s place in history of Sussex smugglers

This story was published on July 21 in the Observer series. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/local/nostalgia-pub-s-place-in-history-of-sussex-smugglers-1-7486021] [All images: West Sussex … More