 | | Professor Brian M. Short, Ph.D. | | President | | Brian Short is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. He is the author of many works dealing with the historical environment and rural society of Sussex and with the evaluation of historical sources relating to rural life in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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| | | Miss M. Clough, Ph.D. | | Vice President | | |
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 | | Richard A. Philcox | | Vice President | | Richard Philcox was recruited to the Sussex Record Society by Verna Smith in 1975, and joined the Council in 1984. On retirement from his career as a veterinary surgeon in 1990 he has taken over the role of Assistant Secretary of the Sussex Record Society and handles most of the work generated at the headquarters at Barbican House, Lewes. |
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 | | Derek S. Rawlings | | Vice President | | After a career in the Bank of England, Derek Rawlings was chairman of the Sussex Record Society Council for ten years up to 2002, including the Society's Centenary. He has served for many years as Chairman of the Friends of the East Sussex Record Office and Vice President of the Danehill Parish Historical Society. |
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 | | A.W. Foster, D.Phil., F.R. Hist.S. | | Literary Director | | Dr Andrew Foster was formerly Director of Research at the University of Chichester and is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton. He is an ecclesiastical historian of the early modern British Church, a former Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society, and currently Chairman of the Committee for Public History of the Historical Association. He has served as Literary Director of the Sussex Record Society since 1985. |
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| | | Richard Martin | | Secretary | | |
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| | | L.G. Lloyd | | Treasurer | | |
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 | | J. Bleach | | Council Member | | |
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 | | Philip Bye | | Council Member | | Philip Bye is the senior archivist in charge of public services at East Sussex Record Office where he has worked for the last 18 years. |
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 | | Mrs Pam Combes | | Council Member | | Pam Combes is a local historian who publishes articles intermittently in Sussex Archaeological Collections and Local Focus (the journal of the Sussex Place-Names net). Her interests are varied and range from Domesday book to the Victorian age |
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 | | Brian D. Cutler | | Council Member | | Brian Cutler, a retired psychiatrist and health service manager, is Chairman of the Sussex Family History Group and an amateur local historian. |
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 | | C.Roger Davey | | Council Member | | A professional archivist all his working life, Roger Davey was County Archivist of East Sussex from 1981 to 2002. He has been a member of the Council of the Society since 1981, and its Chairman since 2001, and has edited two of its volumes. |
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 | | Miss Sophie Houlton | | Council Member | | Sophie Houlton worked as the Archivist at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery from 1999 to 2003. Since then she has worked for the General Medical Council and for Somerset County Council, where she was Data Protection/Records Manager. Currently Sophie is the Corporate Records Manager at English Heritage. She retains an abiding affection for Hastings and its history. |
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 | | Mrs Annabelle F. Hughes, Ph.D. | | Council Member | | Annabelle Hughes is a professional historian with a special interest in vernacular buildings. She has lived in Horsham since 1970 and has nearly twenty years' experience of recording and researching buildings in Sussex. Apart from commissioned research on individual properties, she is happy to offer her particular skills towards the work of local historians. Her publications include:- M.A. dissertation (1983) - An examination of the Horsham Church-wardens' Accounts 1610-1642; one man's incumbency.
- D.Phil. thesis (1989) - The evolution and ownership of timber-framed houses within the old parish and market catchment area of Horsham c 1300-1650; a socio-economic study. (2 vols.)
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| | | Peter J. Macleod | | Council Member | | Retired telecomms/internet/computing executive with a keen interest in local history. |
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| | | Dr Janet Pennington | | Council Member | | |
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 | | Malcolm N. Pratt | | Council Member | | Malcolm Pratt's professional career was as a teacher, ending as Deputy Head of William Parker School, Hastings and he has been Honorary Town Clerk of Winchelsea since 1984. In 1998 he published Winchelsea, a Port of Stranded Pride and his second book about the town Winchelsea - The Tale of a Mediaeval Town has also recently been published. |
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 | | Mrs Heather Warne | | Council Member | | Heather Warne came to Sussex in 1965 to take up her first job as an archivist at East Sussex Record Office. Since raising her family, she has worked on various archive contracts elsewhere in Sussex and in London and Surrey. Her current post is as (part time) archivist at Arundel Castle where she specialises in cataloguing and making available the extensive mediaeval records that are held there. |
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 | | Peter M. Wilkinson | | Council Member | | Peter Wilkinson was Secretary of the Sussex Record Society from 1981 until 2010 and spent 35 years of his career as an archivist at West Sussex Record Office where he was Deputy County Archivist when he retired in 2005. |
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