Wunt be Druv! A Salute to the Sussex Dialect

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Sussex ( from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. South Saxons) is a historic county in South East England that is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and is divided for many purposes into the ceremonial counties of West Sussex and East Sussex. Their mostly Latin mottoes favour, amongst other things, teamwork (County Armagh’s “In Concilio Consilium”), hard work (Down’s “Absque labore nihil”), wisdom and prudence (Tyrone’s “Consilio et Prudentia”), or failing that, God (Londonderry’s “Auxilium a Domino” – “Help comes from the Lord”).

It ends with the unofficial anthem of the county, the song Sussex by the Sea, also known as A Horse Galloping, written by William Ward-Higgs in 1907. The transition to the third and fourth generations of the family (the Harveys-Smiths) proved to be far from ideal for the company's prosperity. The next 60 years witnessed a gradual decline into an effective recession at Harvey's. However, prior to this slump, the present Gothic Victorian brewery was built under the supervision of Titlow-Barrett, having been designed by famed brewery architect, William Bradford. A strain of religious discord and anti-popery lingered in Lewes and elsewhere in the county of Sussex for hundreds of years. The event is now considered a secular celebration, though a street-width banner that shouts "NO POPERY", decorated with a skull and crossbones, is still unfurled and hung from upper-storey windows in the town centre. East Grinstead was part of this urban area for the 2011 census but it was not for previous censuses. Please find the spirit of Bonfire in some words from a poem published by W Victor Cook in 1914 may give you an insight into the ‘Spirit of Sussex Bonfire’Over half of Sussex is protected countryside. The South Downs in particular are subject to protective planning rules and there have been calls to create a South Downs National Park. Guy Fawkes masks are often seen at anti-government protests around the world today, popularised by the film V for Vendetta, but the failure of Fawkes has been celebrated here for more than four centuries. On 5 November 1605, Fawkes and a group of English Catholics tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to assassinate the king. Before it could be carried out, the plot was revealed in an anonymous letter, and a search of Parliament’s basement uncovered 36 barrels of gunpowder that would have easily blown the building to smithereens. Archaeological remains are plentiful in Sussex from many ages of occupation, especially in the upland areas.

Jewish people have been recorded as living in Sussex since the 12th century and are first mentioned in 1179/80 pipe roll for Chichester. A considerable Jewish community existed in Chichester by 1186. All Sussex's Jews would have been expelled in 1290 when Edward I of England issued the Edict of Expulsion. A Jewish population had returned to Sussex by the late 18th century in Brighton and Arundel. At the beginning of the 19th century agricultural labourers' conditions took a turn for the worse with an increasing amount of them becoming unemployed, those in work faced their wages being forced down. Conditions became so bad that it was even reported to the House of Lords in 1830 that four harvest labourers (seasonal workers) had been found dead of starvation. The deteriorating conditions of work for the agricultural labourer eventually triggered riots, first in neighbouring Kent, and then in Sussex, where they lasted for several weeks, although the unrest continued until 1832 and became known as the Swing Riots. The Sussex dialect has been preserved in a number of the older books on Sussex. In the 19th century, The Reverend W D Parish published his “Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect” which was updated and edited in the last century by Helena Hall, local historian of Lindfield. And a number of the old authors (many of them clergies like E Boys Ellman and K Coker Egerton) and others like Barclay Wills, chronicler of “The Shepherds of Sussex” and Bob Copper, the greatest songster of the South Downs kept dialect alive. We wunt be druv" is the unofficial county motto of Sussex in southern England. [1] [2] It is a Sussex dialect phrase meaning "we will not be driven". The motto asserts that people from the English county of Sussex have minds of their own, and cannot be forced against their will [3] or told what to do. [4] It is used as a motto of the people of Sussex and the Sussex Bonfire Societies. [5] [6] Since 2016 it has been used as a strapline, part of the re-branding of Harvey's Brewery of Lewes. [7] Origins [ edit ]Britain’s oldest man is from Boxgrove - know as Boxgrove Man or Homo heidelbergensis, this pre-Neanderthal man was found in 1993 and was dated as half a million years old. Our brewing heritage began in the time of George III, William Blake and Jane Austen, and in Lewes, a rebellious little town nestled in the Sussex Downs. As the oldest independent brewery in Sussex, Harvey’s worked with WPA Pinfold to reposition the brewery “for future generations, ensuring a legacy for the family business whilefuture proofing the brand,” according to Myles Pinfold, WPA Pinfold’s strategic brand director. Pale blue and copper wordmark This is part of a series of steps to champion the United Kingdom’s national identities. Earlier this year, the department launched a new initiative to support the ‘tapestry’ of traditional English counties being displayed on street and road signs. The government also published a new online interactive map of England’s county boundaries.

A new straplinewill also be introduced; “We wunt be druv”. Used locally, it’s a Sussex dialect phrase meaning, “we will not be driven”. In 1992 it was joined by the University of Brighton (with campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings) and in 2005 by the University of Chichester (with campuses in Chichester and Bognor Regis). Validated by University of the Arts London, higher education is also provided at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, whose campuses in Brighton, Worthing and Shoreham-by-Sea are referred to as MET University Centre. The climate of the coastal districts is strongly influenced by the sea, which, because of its tendency to warm up slower than land, can result in cooler temperatures than inland in the summer. In the autumn months, the coast sometimes has higher temperatures. Rainfall during the summer months is mainly from thunderstorms and thundery showers; from January to March the heavier rainfall is due to prevailing south-westerly frontal systems. Simpson, Jacqueline; Roud, Stephen (2003). A Dictionary of English Folklore. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198607663.

Butoba’s Exports were quite heavy, weighing in at 9.5kg, plus any batteries, microphone and tape. All recordings made between 1956 and c.1960 were made on this machine. For comparison the Butoba Export was heavier than the EMI Midget used by the BBC which weighed 6.6kg and more expensive, and it was also heavier than the portable Uher 4000 series that became the standard portable reel-reel recorded was introduced in 1961 and only weighed 3kg. In the social sciences, Sussex was home to economist John Maynard Keynes from 1925 to 1946. The founding father of Keynesian economics, he is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics and the most influential economist of the 20th century. David Pilbeam won the 1986 International Prize from the Fyssen Foundation. Lowerson, John (1980). A Short History of Sussex. Folkestone: Dawson Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7129-0948-8.