Explore Literary Sussex with Chris Hare at Shoreham Society talk

Rudyard Kipling, Hilaire Belloc and W.H. Hudson are just some of the authors with links to Sussex who will be highlighted in the next Shoreham Society talk.
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Chris Hare, a local historian from Worthing, will be guest speaker at the monthly talk tomorrow, at St Peter’s Church hall, West Street, Shoreham, at 7.30pm.

He said his talk, Literary Sussex, will ‘certainly include Kipling but also Hilaire Belloc, Richard Jeffries, W.H. Hudson, Sheila K. Smith, Arthur Becket and Tickner Edwardes’.

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Adrian Towler, from the Shoreham Society committee, said: “For people who have never heard of some of these, this should be an enlightenment.”

Chris Hare, a local historian from Worthing, will talk about Literary Sussex at the meeting of the Shoreham SocietyChris Hare, a local historian from Worthing, will talk about Literary Sussex at the meeting of the Shoreham Society
Chris Hare, a local historian from Worthing, will talk about Literary Sussex at the meeting of the Shoreham Society

Admission is £3 for non-members and the bar will be open.

Other Shoreham Society talks now confirmed are Your Garden After Dark with Dr Dawn Scott of Brighton University on February 15, Red Sky at Night about weather folklore with Bill Avenell on March 15, and London Oddities and Curiosities with Blue Badge Tourist Guide Sally Botwright on April 12.