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Campus Heritage and Cultural History Tour
The guided tour looks at what survives of the original 1960s architecture, interiors, and landscape design and how and why the Brutalist buildings of Britain's first post-war 'new university' campus were built in an historic 18th-century landscape parkland between the High Weald and South Downs.
Along the way we’ll explore highlights of the University's remarkable art collection and think about how the campus architecture and art represents the cultural, social, and political milieu of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, from the Swinging Sixties, hippy counterculture, and psychedelia to punk.
We will also look at the history of protest and activism at Sussex, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); Anti-Vietnam War Movement; Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM); anti-racist activism; the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) and Second-wave Feminism; LGBTQ+ and trans rights activism. And we’ll explore how the global impact of decolonisation in Africa and Britain’s relationship with Europe, shaped the "new map of learning" and campus life at Sussex.
We will end the guided tour with a talk and handling session of archival material in the Library with Kevin Bacon, who manages the Collection Development teams in the Library and Special Collections team at The Keep.
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