University of Sussex

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Education Joan Riley
JR obtained her Honours BA in international relations at the University of Sussex .
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Education Gillian Allnutt
Two years after receiving her BA from Cambridge, GA completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Sussex in Brighton.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Employer Maggie Gee
MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex , the University of East Anglia , Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...
Family and Intimate relationships Judith Kazantzis
Harry Mathews (a member of Oulipo , a French group which chooses to write under technical restrictions) composed an epithalamium for the occasion, using only those letters found in the names of the bride and...
Occupation Maggie Gee
Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at...
Occupation Ketaki Kushari Dyson
After their marriage, KKD lived in England with her husband, who was then working on his doctorate at Sussex University . While they lived in Brighton and he attended the university there, she commuted to...
Residence Elaine Feinstein
By the time the Feinsteins were married they were living in rooms above the bridge in Mill Road, Cambridge (where Arnold was now doing a PhD). Before their first son was born they moved to...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's letters and papers are scattered among several archives: at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Emory University at Atlanta, Georgia, and the University of Sussex .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
The title quotation from Robert Burns describes the writer almost as a spy on society; it continues, And faith he'll prent it.
Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press, 1986.
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NM kept writing through difficult home front conditions, mostly at Carradale House...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW left a mass of manuscript material, now mostly housed at the University of Sussex in Brighton (Monks House Papers) and in the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library . Both these collections...

Timeline

August 1914: The Union of Democratic Control was established...

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August 1914

The Union of Democratic Control was established by J. Ramsay MacDonald , Norman Angell , Charles Trevelyan , and E. D. Morel .
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Hinton, James. Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain. Hutchinson Radius, 1989, http://U of A HSS.
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Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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The Working Class Movement Library holds most of...

July 1935: An educated, married woman with small children,...

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July 1935

An educated, married woman with small children, living at Ballingate in Ireland, wrote to the magazine Nursery World about her loneliness and depression, seeking suggestions for some affordable occupation.
Hill, Rosemary. “Keep Calm”. London Review of Books, 24 May 2007, pp. 23-4.
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By May 1937: Mass-Observation, a social research organisation...

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By May 1937

Mass-Observation , a social research organisation devoted to observing the habits, behaviour, and opinions of ordinary people, was launched: Surrealist in inspiration, it became documentary and socially inclusive in aim.
“Mass Observation Archive”. University of Sussex Library.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Laity, Paul. “Damsons and Custard”. London Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2005, pp. 18-20.
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1949: Mass-Observation undertook the first comprehensive...

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1949

Mass-Observation undertook the first comprehensive study of British sexual behaviour.
Duffy, Jonathan. “Britain’s secret sex survey”. BBC News: Magazine, 30 Sept. 2005.
“Sexual Behaviour 1939-50”. Mass-Observation Archive: Topic Collections.

1961: The University of Sussex was founded in ...

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1961

The University of Sussex was founded in Brighton.
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
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23 October 1963: The report of the Robbins Committee on Higher...

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23 October 1963

The report of the Robbins Committee on Higher Education (recommending the establishment of new universities in Britain) was accepted by the new Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas Home .
Gordon, Peter et al. Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century. Woburn, 1991.
257, 324
Simon, Brian. Education and the Social Order, 1940-1990. Lawrence and Wishart, 1991.
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Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Collini, Stefan. “HiEdBiz”. London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2003, pp. 3-9.
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By 1965: Five English universities were offering B.Ed....

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By 1965

Five English universities were offering B.Ed. degrees: Keele , Leeds , Reading , Sheffield , and Sussex .
Gordon, Peter et al. Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century. Woburn, 1991.
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