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Happiness and The Keep Family Open Day
What makes you happy? This is what the Mass Observation Project staff asked people on Saturday 1st February at The Keep’s first Family Open Day. Over 300 people came through the doors, to hear talks...
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Asa Briggs Internship with University of Sussex Special Collections: First...
It’s hard to believe that I’ve only been working with Special Collections for two weeks; I feel like I’ve learnt so much already. Getting to know the team through hands-on experience has been great....
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People in Special Collections: John Kipling
Last Wednesday, at very short notice, I helped Fiona deliver a selection of documents to Batemans, in preparation for a royal visit. Part of the previous day had been spent reading through these...
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Places in Special Collections: Worktown
Before starting my internship, I worked at The Keep as a temporary Archive Assistant for East Sussex Record Office. One of my responsibilities was to ‘pick’ boxes from the repository and deliver them...
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12th May: Be a Mass Observer for the day
On Monday 12th May the Mass Observation Archive will be repeating its annual call for day diaries written on the 12th May. Everyone is welcome to take part. You can read more about how to do so on our...
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Keep meaning to write up my visit to Palestine for this blog. In March, I gave a paper on aspects of Mass Observation – specifically the contemporary project – at the University of Birzeit in the...
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Notes from the collections: The Rutland Gate Tableau Album
4th July 2014 Guest blog post by Hannah Jordan The University of Sussex has recently acquired a fascinating album of nineteenth-century tableaux vivants photographs, now being held at the Keep. Dating...
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Behind the Scenes in Conservation: the Paris Commune Documents by Emma Johnson
From 18th-28th March 1871, French insurgents rebelled against the French Government and took over the city of Paris. The French citizens called for ‘liberte, egalite and fraternite’ against, what they...
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University of Sussex: Celebrating summer graduation!
By Emma Johnson, University of Sussex Special Collections Intern. It’s that time of year again…another academic year has flown by and the class of 2015 are graduating! Graduation can often be a strange...
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Restitution – Exploring the Papers of Leo Einhorn by Samira Teuteberg.
Due to the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, Special Collections holds a number of collections of family papers that were donated by people who came to the UK as...
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