Sussex Centre for Early Modern Studies is currently in partnership with the National Trust at Petworth House, West Sussex, and the West Sussex Record Office at Chichester in an investigation into the libraries and intellectual culture of the British country house during the early modern period.
The project involves an AHRC collaborative doctoral award which is investigating a unique collection of early play quartos purchased by the Ninth and Tenth Earls of Northumberland during the seventeenth century and housed at Petworth. This exciting partnership with the National Trust at Petworth House and the West Sussex Record Office at Chichester will be at the centre of a wider investigation into the libraries and intellectual culture of the British country house (1500-1700).