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Lewes from the South by Dominic Serres painted in 1768, the year Thomas Paine rode into town as an Officer of Excise. The next six years in Lewes shaped the man, and then the world. Find out how in the books below.

Permission to use this image was granted by Firle House Estates

Lewes from the South painted by Dominic Serres in 1768 commissioned by Henry Shelley

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This image of Thomas Paine is described in a chapter in Thomas Paine in Lewes

This image is taken from a copy of the original document from The British Library

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