'Brighton Transformed': Capturing the lives of local transgender people
QueenSpark Books, Brighton’s community publisher, has launched an exciting new project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to record...
Sussex oral historian becomes patron of local community publisher
Dr Margaretta Jolly, University of Sussex academic and oral historian, has become a patron of Brighton community publisher QueenSpark Books.
CLHLWR member on Radio 4's The Listening Project
Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research member and Mass Observation Archive Trustee Dorothy Sheridan appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The...
Sussex oral history accounts of women’s liberation feature in national exhibition
Personal stories of women activists recorded by academics at Sussex feature in a major exhibition devoted to women’s history and women's liberation.
Ceremony to mark progress on The Keep
Project partners gathered at the site of The Keep this week to mark the completion of the roof of the building with a ‘topping out' ceremony.
Dear diarists: University calls for public to take part in day diary archive project
The Mass Observation Archive is inviting the public to donate their written thoughts for future generations to study.
Places for All: From the Houses of Parliament to Peterborough’s car boot sale
The last exhibition photographer Liz Hingley held in the UK was in the Houses of Parliament, but as part of the University of Sussex’s Places...
Radio 4 tribute to Mass Observation’s extraordinary story of everyday life
A University of Sussex archive devoted to everyday life and opinion as told by ordinary people is the subject of a series of Radio 4 special reports.
A click up the Eighties: Archive’s digital project opens up our recent past to a wider audience
The words and voices of ordinary people in 1980s Britain will form the basis of an exciting history teaching resource created at Sussex.
University archive in call for diaries full of summer holiday fun
The Mass Observation Archive is pairing up with a national campaign to get people fit and help them make a little bit of history at the same time.