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  • The Old Enemy: A historical guide to the Stop Lines of South East England- Richard Shenton

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
    Talk

    Richard writes: “Basically taking in my interests in Battlefields and combining it with my professional knowledge as a Tourist Guide to give an outline, but not exhaustive, picture of what can be seen and visited today, halting at either 1900 or WW1.  I do not propose to include the WW2 era as that has already […]

    £6

  • The Battle of Dorking – Nick Cook

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
    Talk

    The Battle of Dorking (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney is one of the most influential works of early invasion literature—a vivid and unsettling fictional account of Britain’s sudden defeat by a technologically advanced European power. Written in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, it captured contemporary anxieties about national preparedness, military reform and the vulnerability […]

    £6