100-YEAR-OLD newspapers published in Eastbourne and Hastings during the First World War have been preserved for future generations after being made available online for the first time.
The editions of the Eastbourne Gazette, Eastbourne Chronicle, Hastings & St Leonards Observer and Hastings & St Leonards Pictorial Advertiser have been scanned and are available to browse on East Sussex County Council’s First World War website. Continue reading
A NEW online record of children born out of wedlock in the 18th and 19th centuries could provide a ‘missing link’ to people researching their family history.
A list of nearly 900 illegitimate children born to women in East Sussex between 1793 and 1834 has been added to the website of The Keep, the county archive centre in Moulsecoomb. Continue reading
WARTIME papers associated with the life of one of East Sussex’s most famous artists have been loaned by a county archive centre to an acclaimed exhibition.
Permits and passes used by Eric Ravilious during World War Two form part of a new showcase of the artist’s watercolours, currently wowing audiences at Dulwich Picture Gallery, in south London. Continue reading
A CENTURY of the Women’s Institute was celebrated at The Keep with the help of one of the largest archive collections in the country.
Staff at Sussex’s archive resource centre created a display of WI history for 120 members of the East Sussex Federation of Women’s Institutes who travelled to Moulsecoomb to mark the occasion. Continue reading
