Talk:History of Sussex

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The link to William de Braose currently leads to a disambiguation page. Someone with more knowledge of the topic should correct the link to go to the correct William. --Bill 23:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

This article is too "wordy" - ie no headings to break up the text. I shall attempt a rewrite Peter Shearan 10:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

and I have just discovered it - almost word-for-word at http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/SUS_TAV/SUSSEX.html Which one copied from which? It reads like it is - the 1911 Encyclopedia - full of odd-sounding phrases. Surely Wikipedia deserves better than this in 2006? The query above is typical - who was William de Braose and to what do we owe his apparently unique fame in connection with the history of Sussex? Peter Shearan 11:26, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I am still not over-satisfied with the result, but will leave it at that. At least the article is now under headings, and doesn't contain too much of the flavour of an early encyclopedia! I am sure others will now wish to amend what I have done, but it will be a more simple job with it being divided up. Incidentally, I have included the reference I quoted above under External links, so that readers have not completely lost all the "facts" given. I note, however, that at least one more modern reference doubts the authenticity of the date 477 given at the outset of the original article. Peter Shearan 12:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)