A few weeks ago I was interviewed for an episodes of BBC's 'Secret Sussex' on the old ruin of Brambletye House at Forest Row. Yes, this is the same 'Brambletye' that features in the current Julius Chancer comic I'm working on.

In preparation I had to brush up on my research and get it all in order - though in the end I didn't need to call on much of it as the push was more towards the atmosphere and feel of the place. But as part of the process I used my notes and expanded it into a full-length article, A Genealogy of Brambletye, looking at nearly a thousand years of history of this interesting Sussex manor.

It starts with the Norman conquest and Domesday, and follows the knights, earls, lords, ladies and gentry as they experienced Agincourt, the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation, the Civil War, the Restoration, then into its ruin in the 18th century, and under the ownership of bankers and solicitors into the 19th and 20th centuries and beyond.

You can read A Genealogy of Brambletye here.