Join the @sussex.ac.uk for a unique one-day event exploring Sussex! Sussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories brings together artists, scholars, landworkers and policymakers to share ideas on heritage, diversity and progressive futures. Bookings close Wed 10 June onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Join @sussex.ac.uk for a one-day event exploring the past, present and future of Sussex! Sussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories (19 June, 9am–7pm) brings together artists, scholars, land-workers and policymakers on heritage, diversity and progressive futures. Book: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Sussex Retold: Symposium on Sussex heritage diversity and progressive futures

Artists, story-tellers, scholars, land-workers, policy-makers investigate Sussex heritage diversity and the uses of the past for progressive futures.

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Our national diary day is getting closer! This year we are keen to hear thoughts and feelings about nature and wellbeing, in addition to the day to day. We accept handwritten and typed diaries, but also photography and sketches, or other creative approaches! #diary #sketch #photography #journalling

It was a busy 12th May for this particular diarist! Don't forget that tomorrow is our national diary day! We welcome contributions from all ages, especially when they are recounting days as busy as this one! Find out more about how to submit your diary at massobs.org.uk/12th-may/

12th May - Mass Observation Archive

Our 12th May diary day is your chance to be part of recording everyday life. Sending us your dairy helps us record everyday life in the UK.

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Finding the grave, name and last will of a Georgian woman: Life Writing research by our Associate Director Alexandra Loske @colourwoman.bsky.social published in the April 2026 issue of The Burlington Magazine: Finding Miss Gartside: www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue

Call for contributions! Sussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories, 19 June 2026 University of Sussex We are seeking contributions for a conference investigating traditional arts, crafts, cultures and folk music in the Sussex region. Submission deadline 15 January 2026. www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Call for contributions! Sussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories, 19 June 2026 University of Sussex

We seek contributions for a conference investigating traditional arts, crafts, cultures and folk music in the Sussex region. Deadline to apply 15 Jan.

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By way of Beachy Head: Re-telling Sussex sites in drawing, poetry and music Wednesday 26 November 16:00 to 17:30 University of Sussex Campus @sussex.ac.uk Speakers: Ed Hughes, Hope Wolf and Andrea Haslanger, with Margaretta Jolly Part of the series #SussexRetold www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/by-way-of-...

And the website also features extended interview with two other big figures in BBC children's TV - Edward Barnes and Joy Whitby - who both have things to say about Biddy Baxter:

You can watch the full 47-minute 2010 interview with Biddy Baxter talking about her life and TV career - complete with transcript - here at the 'Connected Histories of the BBC' site created at @sussex.ac.uk connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org/play/?id=418

On Saturday 12 July I will be squeezing colour out of 3 artists as if they were paint tubes: Peter Messer, Jo Lamb and Julian Bell will be talking about pigments, palettes and paint in the next Colour Conversation at Brighton Museums. Dragon's Blood will fly! brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/colour...

Sharon Black wins 39th Frogmore Poetry Prize Glasgow-born poet Sharon Black now lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes in France. Sharon was previously awarded the Frogmore Prize in 2011 and joins a select group of poets who have won the Prize more than once www.frogmorepress.co.uk/uncategorize...

The South Downs Songbook An afternoon of live ensemble music for flute, clarinet, keyboard, electric guitar, cello and voice. Pieces by Shirley J Thompson, Rowland Sutherland, Evelyn Ficarra and Ed Hughes. Sunday 13 July, 2pm, £15 Towner Cinema townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/sou...

Sussex Modernism is a comprehensive review of the artistic traditions through Bloomsbury, Ditchling, the Rye artists, Ravillious, Nash, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Peggy Angus etc. Beautifully illustrated and there’s be an accompanying show at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery later this year.

In the wake of the #VE80, why not look at the fascinating oral history-infused chapter on WW2 created by David Hendy and Alban Webb for '100 Voices that Made the BBC'. It is a free online set of pages feat. key personalities and inside stories from the BBC's history: www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthe...

Voices of the BBC

The story of the BBC, as told by the people who made it

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A particular interesting CFP: Sound and Travel, Special Issue of *Studies in Travel Writing* networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The project was revived in 2010 and it's still not too late to get involved. bsky.app/profile/clhl...

Centre for Life History & Life Writing Research, Sussex Uni@clhlwr.bsky.social · last yr.

In 1937 @massobsarchive.bsky.social called for people from all parts of the UK to record everything they did from when they woke up in the morning to when they went to sleep at night on 12th May. They revived the project in 2010 and it continues. Want to take part? massobs.org.uk/the-archive/...

The programme of our closing conference "Chromatic Encounters" (26-28 June, Paris) is now online! Registration is free but compulsory. More info here : chromotope.eu/chromatic-en... We look forward to seeing you in Paris.

Chromatic Encounters 2025 - Chromotope

Programme Chromatic Encounters 2025Thursday 26 June, Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier, Campus des Cordeliers… MORE Registration Chromatic Encounters 2025Registration form… MORE CFP Chromatic Encounters 20...

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In 1937 @massobsarchive.bsky.social called for people from all parts of the UK to record everything they did from when they woke up in the morning to when they went to sleep at night on 12th May. They revived the project in 2010 and it continues. Want to take part? massobs.org.uk/the-archive/...

12th May - Mass Observation Archive

Taking Part As an Individual Diary day is about recording everyday life in the UK for future generations. We are really keen to capture as many different voices and lived experiences as possible. We e...

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Upcoming event by our friends at Curious Histories - Public Talks Programme: Threads and Entanglements: Curious Histories Easter Special Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:00 - 22:00 BST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/threads-an...

Threads and Entanglements: Curious Histories Easter Special

Forgotten photos, historical murder scenes, and the communist underworld all feature in our 'Pathways to Health' fundraiser this Easter.

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27 March, Hove, a Curious Histories Charity History Talk: 'A Moustache Makes Him More of a Man' Before the First World War, wearing a moustache was a vexed question in the UK's restaurant trade. Dr Rosalind Eyben (@ids.ac.uk) takes up this hair-raising tale. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heroes-and...

Heroes and Villains: Double Bill

Two of our favourite speakers, Rosalind Eyben and Pete Fij, return to entertain us with some highly unconventional stories.

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We're happy to be hosting Women at Sussex, this year celebrating our inspirational Early Career Researchers, curated by Elizabeth Rendon-Morales. Come to the Open Learning Space on the ground floor of the Library until 31/03 to see the exhibition! #InternationalWomensDay #EarlyCareerResearchers

Free talk: ‘Lives in Colour: Pioneering Women in Colour History’ by Dr Alexandra Loske @colourwoman.bsky.social Friday, 10 January, 6–7pm, Kingston Museum This event accompanies the K-Women: Celebrating Korean Female Artists exhibition. Info and booking: www.kingstonheritage.org.uk/homepage/140...

Scholars of Simplicity The Copper Family, Sussex’s folk singing dynasty, are celebrated in a free exhibition at Sussex Uni Library, with Sussex Retold, led by Margaretta Jolly with Sam Carroll. Explores histories, heritage and landscapes of Sussex. Until 28 April. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/librarycolle...

My life in colour: On Tuesday 26 Nov (very early in the morning here in England), I will be talking online about 'Fifteen years of spinning colour wheels and analysing dragons' Canberra Colour Club/The Colour Society of Australia. More tickets just released: coloursociety.org.au/event-5881145

We are in the process of migrating from X (former Twitter). Find out more about the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research at the University of Sussex here: www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/