Qualla: Sussex https://qualla.com/sussex en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/sussex-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sussex https://qualla.com/sussex Sussex: Introduction https://qualla.com/sussex/ Photo credit User:Hogweard, Public domain. We wunt be druv. The motto is Sussex dialect for we will not be pushed around, and the county has been demonstrating it for fifteen centuries. The South Saxons, the Sūþseaxe, gave Sussex its name in the fifth century. They were a Germanic tribe who crossed from the North German Plain and settled the strip of coast between the Weald and the Channel. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle puts the founding moment in AD 477, when a man named Ælle landed with three sons and won a battle on the banks of the Mearcredesburna. Whatever the truth of that legend, Sussex has been a recognisable place ever since, and its people have spent most of those centuries refusing to be told what to do.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/sussex-wp/gcpc-sussex-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sussex: The Wealden Iron https://qualla.com/sussex/ Photo credit Æthelred, CC BY-SA 4.0. The South Downs roll east and west across the county like a chalk spine, and the High Weald rises behind them in a tangle of woodland and hidden valleys. The Romans called the local tribe the Regni and built a vast palace at Fishbourne whose mosaics still survive. The Saxons sett...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/sussex-wp/gcpc-sussex-the-wealden-iron.mp3 0:06 2 full Sussex: Radicals on the Coast https://qualla.com/sussex/ Photo credit Grim23 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Sussex coast has always faced trouble outward. During the Hundred Years' War, French raiders burned Hastings, Rye, and Winchelsea. During the Second World War, the same coast became Britain's front line and the assembly ground for D-Day's landing craft and Mulberry harbours. ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/sussex-wp/gcpc-sussex-radicals-on-the-coast.mp3 0:06 3 full Sussex: Two Counties, One Place https://qualla.com/sussex/ Photo credit Bojan Lazarevic, ZivojinMisic slike, CC BY 3.0. Sussex was split for administrative convenience by Tudor times, with the western three rapes and the eastern three keeping separate quarter sessions from 1504. In 1889 it became two administrative counties; in 1974 it became two ceremonial counties, East Sussex and West Sussex, a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/sussex-wp/gcpc-sussex-two-counties-one-place.mp3 0:06 4 full Sussex: Cricket and Bloomsbury https://qualla.com/sussex/ Photo credit User:UKgeofan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cricket may have been invented here. The earliest reference to men playing the game comes from Sussex in 1611, the first to women in 1677, the first to a cricket bat in 1622. Sussex County Cricket Club, founded in 1839, is England's oldest county cricket club and the oldest profe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/sussex-wp/gcpc-sussex-cricket-and-bloomsbury.mp3 0:06 5 full Sussex: The County's Pleasures https://qualla.com/sussex/ Photo credit Ian Stannard from Southsea, England, CC BY-SA 2.0. Modern Sussex stretches from Chichester Harbour in the west to the Romney Marshes in the east, with Brighton and Hove as its largest city. The South Downs National Park runs the length of the county, and the chalk cliffs at Beachy Head fall white and sheer to the Channel. There a...

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