Kevin Newman is a Sussex-born author, historian, tour guide and history teacher. He was first asked to contribute to the 2014 school textbook, Why Remember The First World War? and since has co-written history textbooks for Oxford University Press, history supplements for Sussex’s Argus newspaper, and contributed to Sussex Life and Exclusively British magazines. He is best known today for his Sussex & Surrey Miscellany history column in the various editions of Sussex and Surrey Pages magazines and for the large number of talks he gives around the South-East. He has written local books starting with Brighton and Hove In 50 Buildings (Amberley) in 2014 to his bestselling The Little History of Sussex in 2023 (The History Press) and now writes books for the national market such as Clock Towers of England in 2023. He has written two novels, the latest of which was ‘Beef Every Day But No Latin’ (The Real Press). This is a historical fiction novel based on the true story of James Bernard Clifton, a Sussex schoolboy who set up his own school in 1925. His latest book on Sussex came out in 2024 and was A-Z of Worthing. He is currently writing two books on Sussex, Brighton At Work, due out in 2026 and Brighton and Hove in 25 Streets, due out in 2027 as well as a number of novels, the next of which due out is The Ghost’s Train about a teenage girl who starts seeing long-lost trains and stations. He has presented events and given talks before at Steyning and other festivals and fronts a large number of history/ local food and drink/ comedy events at Leonardslee Gardens and is particularly looking forward to being a guest at Hailsham Festival.