HUNDREDS of years of records will inspire visitors to The Keep when it throws open its doors later this month.
The world-class centre which holds archives from East Sussex Record Office, the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove Local History Collections and the University of Sussex Special Collections, some dating back more than 900 years, is hosting a free open day for families and people of all ages on Saturday, November 22. Continue reading
PEOPLE with pictures showing life in East Sussex during the First World War are urged to submit them for a photographic project aimed at bringing the past to life.
East Sussex County Council’s First World War website has launched a new feature showing photographs taken during the conflict, overlaying a modern image taken from the same perspective. Continue reading
THE role played by volunteer nurses during the First World War is brought to life in the latest addition to a website marking the conflict in East Sussex.
East Sussex County Council’s First World War website is offering people the chance to view moving messages and drawings left in an autograph book by wounded soldiers to a nurse at Filsham Park Hospital, St Leonards. Continue reading
WAR memorials across East Sussex are to be recorded as part of a project to commemorate the First World War.
Residents are being invited to research war memorials in East and West Sussex and Brighton and Hove, as part of Recording Remembrance – a project launched by East Sussex and West Sussex County Councils’ Archaeology teams. Continue reading
