We have a new Special Collections Website
Our new website was launched in 2010, and allows searching across all our collections and view records for all our items. You can access the site at the following address: http://specialcollections.lib.sussex.ac.uk/.
These pages are available for reference and are no longer being updated. They may contain out of date information.
Introduction
The University of Sussex holds a number of internationally acclaimed archival, manuscript and rare book collections, mostly relating to twentieth-century literary, political and social history. Over 70 collections have been broken down into 15 main groupings below. If you are looking for a specific collection not listed here, please use the A-Z list.
Archives and Manuscripts
Bloomsbury Archives: including the papers of Virginia Woolf (the Monks House Papers) and Leonard Woolf, the Charleston Papers and others
Common Wealth Party Archive: papers of the British political party Common Wealth, 1940-1990
Copper Archive: papers of Bob Copper, patriarch of the famous Sussex folk singing family
JG Crowther Archive: papers of the science journalist & British Council policy-maker
German Jewish Collections: collections that reflect the study of political, social, literary and intellectual German-Jewish history, in particular the history of Jewish refugees and their families to the United Kingdom during and after the Second World War.
Geoffrey Gorer Archive: papers of the social anthropologist and longtime associate of Margaret Mead
Rudyard Kipling Archive (including many Kipling-related smaller collections): personal papers of Kipling and his family
Charles Madge Archive: papers of the acclaimed poet, sociologist and co-founder of Mass-Observation
Mass-Observation Archive: archive of the pioneering social research organisation
Harvey Matusow Archive: 20th century American politics, cultural history and underground movements
Frank Muir and Denis Norden Archive: over 600 radio & television scripts by 2 of the foremost British comedy writers of the 1950s & 60s
New Statesman Archive (including the papers of Kingsley Martin and CH Rolph): relating to the years 1944-1988 in the life of one of Britain's leading journals of political and literary analysis
Rosey Pool Collection: papers of Dutch teacher and cultural anthropoloist containing a wealth of material regarding African-American literature, politics and music
Other Manuscript Collections (including the Edith Sitwell Letters, the Maurice Reckitt Archive and others)
Printed Material
Printed collections : includes Mai '68 material, local history publications, journal and magazine runs and various magazine collections. Also held are book collections that were acquired with some of our manuscript and archive collections, including the Mass Observation Archive and the Rosey Pool Collections.
Rare Books (including the Baker Collection and the Travers Collection): items spanning over 500 years and rich in literature, travel, costume, the development of printing and illustration and the evolution of scientific thought
The Eugene W Schulkind Paris Commune Collection: documents the events in 1871 when Republican Paris found itself autonomous for 73 days
University of Sussex-related Collections
Archives relating to the University of Sussex
Artworks
The Barlow Collection of Chinese ceramics, bronzes and jades
University of Sussex Artworks collection
A-Z list
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