Editing University of Sussex (section)

===20th century===
In an effort to establish a university to serve Sussex, a public meeting was held in December 1911 at the [[Royal Pavilion]] in Brighton to discover ways to fund the construction of a university; the project was halted by [[World War I]], and the money raised was used instead for books for the Municipal Technical College.

The idea was revived in the 1950s,  and in June 1958 the government approved the corporation's scheme for a university at [[Brighton]], to be the first of a new generation of what came to be known as [[plate glass university|plate glass universities]].<ref name="history"/> The university was established as a company in 1959, with a [[Royal Charter]] being granted on 16 August 1961.<ref name="history"/> This was the first university to be established in the UK since the Second World War, apart from [[Keele University]]. The university's organisation broke new ground in seeing the campus divided into Schools of Study, with students able to benefit from a multidisciplinary teaching environment. Sussex would emphasise cross-disciplinary activity, so that students would emerge from the university with a range of background or 'contextual' knowledge to complement their specialist 'core' skills in a particular subject area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/about/historiansatsussex |title=Historians at Sussex : About the Department : History : University of Sussex |access-date=5 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404071755/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/about/historiansatsussex |archive-date=4 April 2013 }}</ref> For example, arts students spent their first year taking sciences while science students took arts.This experimental interdisciplinary educational model was famously described by Professor Asa Briggs as pioneering "a new map of learning".<ref>{{Citation |last=Cragoe |first=Matthew |title=Asa Briggs and the University of Sussex, 1961–1976 |date=2015 |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392596_11 |work=The Age of Asa: Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945 |pages=225–247 |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Miles |access-date=2023-07-30 |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137392596_11 |isbn=978-1-137-39259-6}}</ref>

The university grew from 52 students in 1961–62 to 3,200 in 1967–68. After starting at Knoyle Hall in Brighton, the Falmer campus was gradually built with Falmer House opening in 1962.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__6834.aspx|title=A potted history {{!}} University of Sussex {{!}} Universities and colleges {{!}} Places {{!}} My Brighton and Hove|website=www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk |access-date=24 February 2018}}</ref> The campus was praised as gorgeously modernist and groundbreaking, receiving numerous awards.<ref name="basilspence.org.uk"/> The student union, as is typical, organised events and concerts, bringing in acts like [[Pink Floyd]], [[Jimi Hendrix]] and [[Chuck Berry]] to perform at the University Common Room.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page/university_of_sussex?path=0p115p213p956p|title=Modernism and rock 'n' roll – University of Sussex – Universities and colleges – Places – My Brighton and Hove}}</ref>

Academically, Sussex was home to figures such as [[Asa Briggs|Asa Lord Briggs]], Helmut Pappe, [[Gillian Rose]], [[Jennifer Platt]] and [[Tom Bottomore]]. In its first years, the university attracted a number of renowned academics such as Sir [[John Cornforth]], [[John Maynard Smith]], [[Martin Wight]], [[David Daiches]], Roger Blin-Stoyle and [[Colin Eaborn]]. Similarly, renowned scholars like [[Marcus Cunliffe]], [[Gabriel Josipovici]], [[Quentin Bell]], Dame [[Helen Wallace]], [[Stuart Sutherland]] and [[Marie Jahoda]] also became central figures at the university and founded many of its current departments. Additionally, a number of initiatives at the university were started at this time, such as the [[Subaltern Studies Group]], founded by [[Ranajit Guha]] who was Reader in History at Sussex between 1962 and 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obituary: Professor Ranajit Guha |url=https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/61233 |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=The University of Sussex |language=en}}</ref>

In the late 1960s, the United Nations asked for science policy recommendations from a team of renowned academics at Sussex. The ensuing report became known as the [[Sussex Manifesto]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Standke |first=Klaus-Heinrich |date=1 November 2006 |title=Sixty years of UN and UNESCO |url=http://www.klaus-heinrich-standke.de/admin/datenbank/secure/files/1402576641_.pdf |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=klaus-heinrich-standke.de}}</ref>

Sussex came to be identified with student [[Political radicalism|radicalism]]. In 1973, a group of students prevented United States government adviser [[Samuel P. Huntington]] from giving a speech on campus, because of his involvement in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/huntingtondie |title=News |publisher=The Badger Online |access-date=20 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224181512/http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/huntingtondie |archive-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=usurped  }}</ref> Similarly, when the spokesperson for the US embassy, Robert Beers, visited to give a talk to students entitled 'Vietnam in depth' three students were waiting outside Falmer House and threw a bucket of red paint over the diplomat as he was leaving.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/by_location/16043245._We_thought_we_could_change_the_world___Memories_of_Vietnam_War_protest_at_University_of_Sussex/|title='We thought we could change the world': Memories of Vietnam War protest at University of Sussex|website=The Argus|date=23 February 2018 }}</ref>

In both 1967 and 1969, Sussex won the television quiz ''[[University Challenge]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blanchflower.org/uc/winners_teams.html|title=University Challenge – Series Champions|website=blanchflower.org|access-date=24 February 2018}}</ref>

In 1980, Sussex edged out the [[University of Oxford]] to become the university with the highest income from research grants and contracts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://m.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/pdfs/university-of-sussex-at-50.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030529/http://m.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/pdfs/university-of-sussex-at-50.pdf |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>