Brian Short

BRIAN SHORT has a BA and PhD from the University of London, FRGS. He is a Professor Emeritus (Geography) at the University of Sussex. He has been a council member of Sussex Archaeological Society and editor of the Sussex Archaeological Collectionsand was a founder member Sussex Downs Conservation Board (forerunner of the National Park). He was also an invited founder member of Board of Trustees for the County History Trust (for the Victoria County History), and was appointed as a member of the VCH panel of peer reviewers in 2006. He has been president of the Sussex Record Society since 2011 and is currently an editorial board member for the journal Landscape History and Collins internationally renowned New Naturalist series. He is also currently chair of an external advisory board to the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester.