News
Heritage Lottery award for local history project
The past will come to life for communities near a new historical resource centre - after it won Lottery funding for a local history project.
Special Collections closure in preparation for move to The Keep
Details of the closure of Special Collections reading rooms (including the Mass Observation Archive) as the collections start moving to The Keep.
Sussex digital project shares 1980s views of Thatcher’s Britain
A digital project offers fascinating insights into the social history and cultural changes as experienced by those living in Thatcher’s Britain.
Library awarded Customer Service Excellence certification
The Library has achieved the Customer Service Excellence Standard (CSE), a challenging government standard.
New Interlibrary Request online service for desktop delivery
Try our new online request forms for requesting items not held in the Library or available through the Electronic Library.
Trial of Drama Online
The Library is currently trialling Drama Online, providing access to many works by major playwrights, classic and modern, as well as critical analysis
Virginia Woolf’s engagement diaries come to Sussex
Personal details of Virginia Woolf’s final years are available to the public for the first time after the University acquired eight of her diaries.
University archive inspires play about ‘America’s most notorious liar’
A play based on the confessions of a Cold War supergrass – whose papers are now housed at the University of Sussex – opens in London this month.
University archive to store messages marking 90 years of BBC radio
Messages marking 90 years of BBC radio – to be broadcast this evening in a worldwide transmission – will be kept in a University archive.
Book based on Mass Observation diaries of Nella Last shortlisted for major prize
A book by Sussex alumnus Robert Malcolmson based on the Mass Observation diaries of housewife Nella Last has been shortlisted for the Portico Prize.
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