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Today is Sussex Day! 🥳 To celebrate we are sharing this map of the Rapes of Sussex by Richard Blome, dated 1671. It shows the whole of Sussex with parks, enclosed land, main roads. Dotted lines on the map indicate the different rapes, with a list of the rapes given

We are pleased to announce that our new website and catalogue is LIVE! 🎉 Go to wsro.org.uk to start exploring. Need help searching - see the 'Search help' button under the search bar or contact us ([email protected])

Happy Summer Solstice! This means summer officially begins today ☀️ Get your bathing suits on just like this family from the 1920s!

To improve line of sight on the supervisor desk 👀, we have rearranged the Searchroom! The index cards and the tall shelves of microfilm have now been moved behind the map cabinets.

Today the Wimbledon Championships begin and will go on for the next two weeks! 🎾 Here we are sharing a photograph of tennis players (Haywards Heath) from 1913

Summer brings berry picking at PYO farms 🍓🍇 This Garland photograph is from a series of photographs taken during a Kirdford holiday camp in 1943

Today is the start of Goodwood's Festival of Speed! 🏎️ Here we are sharing a photograph from the Shoreham Beach parish collection. Goodwood FOS #FOS #Goodwood

🚨 New blog post alert! 🚨 'The birds and the bees (and contagious disease): A short history of HIV in Sex Education, 1980s-1990s' by our Documenting HIV Epidemic Project Archivist has just gone live. buff.ly/3XXbAR3

England are in the Euro finals against Spain tonight! ⚽ We hope that England will be scoring goals just like this one! #ThreeLions #ItsComingHome #Euros2024

#MapMonday This is one of the earliest maps we hold in the Crawley New Town archive. Made in 1947, it shows the intended designated area of the New Town in blue, along with existing developments in red. The expansion that the town underwent in a few short years was remarkable 🛠️

Sometimes when researching family history, you can come across sad stories, just like this one of a foundling baptism in the composite register of baptisms, marriages and burials from Northchapel in 1743. It can be assumed that the baby was found in a barn due to the surname.

As well as the #CrawleyNewTown archive, we also hold records of Crawley Community Association. The Association were absolutely vital with helping to integrate migrants from London with the "old towners" during the 1950s, offering assistance and promoting local events 👋

School sports days can really feel like the Olympics when you are a child! 🥇 This is a photograph of a sack race at Fishbourne School in the1950s, and just look at the determination on their faces! #Olympics2024 #ParisOlympics

Happy International Day of Friendship! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 This adorable photograph was taken in 1938 and they are overlooking Burton Mill Pond, Petworth.

📣 New blog post alert! ✈️ 'Cataloguing Crawley New Town: Gatwick Airport' has just gone live and is by Alice Millard, our New Jerusalems Project Archivist buff.ly/3YhfvbO

🌞 With the weather being so hot over the past week, it's time to get out there and enjoy it over the weekend! To provide inspiration, you could go rowing just like these children did in July of 1948

Bringing back #MarbledMondays with these gorgeous marbled book edges! 📚 The first is UDCR/1/1/1 (minute book) and the second is UDCR/4/32/2 (accounts and balance sheet book)

We have a new display up all about showcasing agriculture in West Sussex 👨‍🌾🐑🐖 Check out some of our personal favourites. Also, have you heard about next Tuesday Talk? 'Tales of a Sussex Family Farm' by Angela Lerwill on 24 Sep at 7pm. See details here: buff.ly/4dttkbt

Happy #InternationalCatDay 🐈