Rosey Pool and the case of the damaged Equiano; or a book made safe and a treasure revealed.
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Rosey Pool (1905-71) exhibition
Our exhibition of Rosey Pool’s personal book collection is now open on the ground floor of the library (at the bottom of the main staircase), created by Assistant Library Officer, Elsa van Helfteren.
Weetabix Trifle and beyond…
By Rose Lock Women’s magazines. Trivial, eh? Just a collection of inconsequential articles on how to keep your man happy, patterns for knitted shorts, vile make-do-type recipes, and adverts for lipsticks and washing powder. Well, yes, all of these things…
Tagged with: Libraries, The Keep, Woman's Own
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, The Library, Uncategorised
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, The Library, Uncategorised
The Papers of St John and Mary Hutchinson from The Jeremy Hutchinson QC Archive
My name is Alexander Taylor, and I am the Project Archivist working on cataloguing, preserving, and making available the Jeremy Hutchinson QC archive. The collection comprises records from Jeremy and his family’s personal and professional lives. This article will comprise the first in a series of 3 blog posts examining the collection in its entirety, with the first focusing on the uncatalogued personal papers of Jeremy’s parents, St John Hutchinson, a prominent defence barrister, and Mary Hutchinson (née Barnes), a short-story writer and model.
Re-opening the Call for Mass Observers; motivations of a volunteer
by Kirsty Pattrick – Mass Observation Projects Officer “Writing a Mass Observation directive is like taking a thought for a walk” F5186 I was drawn to this lovely quote from one of our Observers. It makes me think of the…
Freedom Day – new perspectives on apartheid from the BLDS Legacy Collection
Today marks the 28th anniversary of South Africa’s first post-apartheid elections, now commemorated as Freedom Day. Previously, under the apartheid regime, non-whites in general had only limited voting rights, while black South Africans were unable to vote at all. The…
Tagged with: African history, African pamphlets, Apartheid, Independence, South Africa
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies)
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies)
Everyday kindness
By Suzanne Rose – Mass Observation Education and outreach officer Richard Ratcliffe, currently on day 17 of a hunger strike as part of his campaign to free his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe writes in The Guardian on 10th November 2021, “Amid…
Welcome to Legacy…
The University of Sussex Library Legacy collection A diverse collection of over 20,000 documents, pamphlets, books and reports which have been collected by the Library since it opened in 1964 From local to national, the well known to little known…
Listening to the Most Hated Man in America – Part 2
A glimpse into the audio archive of Harvey Matusow By Duncan Harrison – UOSH Audio preservation engineer A Political Career on Tape The first thing to be aware of is that this audio content does not really provide a chronological…
Tagged with: America, anti-communist, archive, audio, avant-garde, Communism, FBI, Harvey Matusow, interviews, Joseph McCarthy, music, Sound, USA, yo-yo
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)