Fwd: Oral history of the University of Sussex interviewees in discussion at Charleston Festival

[Chris]

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Dear All,

Two of the interviewees from the Fifty Voices, 
Fifty Faces, oral history of the University of 
Sussex will be in discussion with esteemed 
writers at the annual Charleston Festival this summer (25 May-3 June).

The first of these two major events takes place 
on Thursday 31 May, when Sussex graduate and 
prize-winning writer Ian McEwan will be in 
conversation with the distinguished historian, 
Lord (Asa) Briggs. Before his academic career, 
which encompassed the Vice-Chancellorship of the 
University of Sussex (1967-76), Lord Briggs was a 
cryptographer during the Second World War. He 
worked at Bletchley Park alongside code-breaker 
Alan Turing, deciphering messages from the German 
army’s Enigma machines. Ian McEwan, who studied 
English at Sussex from 1967-70, has a 
long-standing fascination with code-breaking and 
subterfuge. His play, The Imitation Game, dramatises these interests.

On Sunday 3 June, the University of Sussex 
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Farthing, will 
be chairing a discussion with biographer Claire 
Tomalin. Her acclaimed study of the life and work 
of Charles Dickens was published to mark the 
200th anniversary this year of the novelist’s 
birth. This is a wonderful opportunity to see a 
biographer who was so important to feminist life writing.

Tickets for both events cost £13. For more 
information and to book festival events, see www.charleston.org.uk

See

<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=12547>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=12547


http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/

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