All libraries have resources relating to their own area and the county in general. You can find out about the people, history, natural history, geology, archaeology, culture and development of East Sussex.
How to do your own research in a library or get help from library staff.
What you can use in our libraries for researching local studies. Includes suggested reading, newspapers and magazines, maps, census, electoral registers and illustrations.
Local history websites which you can use on library computers, including free access to UK census, parish records, maps and more on the Ancestry website.
Recommended local history books and our special collections at Hastings, Eastbourne, Lewes and Bexhill libraries, including the Bloomsbury Group, Thomas Paine and the De La Warr family.
Discover more about Sussex past and present, our towns, villages and landscape, and works by local authors.
Enjoy remembering the sights, sounds and smells of the past with our collections of historical items.
How to buy local history photos - from electronic images to hand-printed and mounted local history prints - of Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes and Rye, available from libraries in East Sussex.
East Sussex County Council