"[6] After reading a review of his production in the Manchester Guardian, Bernard Miles wrote to Rose with the idea of opening his Mermaid Theatre with this version of the plays.
[9] Under the auspices of the Council for National Academic Awards, Rose helped King Alfred's reinvent itself from an institution dedicated to training teaching to a robust liberal arts college offering a diverse variety of programs and Bachelor's degrees.
[11] A specialist in English Literature and Drama, in 1961 Rose published the standard edition of the medieval cycle of the Wakefield Mystery Plays.
Arguably the pivotal figure himself in the making of what would become the University of Winchester, he was also concerned to set the record straight about its past and the different stages in the college's development.
In retirement in Norfolk, he wrote publications on the history of the town and parish of Dereham where he lived as well as notable people associated with the region, among them George Borrow, William Cowper, and Sir John Fenn, first editor of the Paston Letters.
In 2003 he produced a biography of the actress Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, contemporary of John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and Laurence Olivier.