Books by John Sadden

John Sadden is Portsmouth born and bred. Educated at Southern Grammar School and Portsmouth Polytechnic, where he gained a first class honours degree and qualified as a teacher, he went on to study at the University of North London adding a qualification as librarian. Following work at the County Planning and Surveyors' Library, in Winchester, and public libraries in the Fareham area, he is currently both Lending Librarian in Petersfield and a Reference Librarian at the University of Portsmouth. His consuming, combined interest in local, naval and military history was successfully expressed in his first book, Keep the Home Fires Burning (1990), a history of Portsmouth and Gosport in the First World War. He has also compiled best-selling volumes of local archive photographs and contributes to Hampshire, the county magazine. John currently maintains a large collection of photographs recording changes in the built environment of the Portsmouth area, as a record for future historians. Another on-going project covers the county's growing number of periodicals. The first fruit was The Hampshire Index, a 27,000 entry compilation published in 1998 and in use throughout the county's public libraries, which enables local historians to access these valuable secondary sources. John lives in Gosport with his wife, Irene, and daughter, Karen.