East Sussex Record Office in Lewes

Neville Gabie
10 September 2001... an archive within an archive
10 – 19 November 2004
A snapshot of the life of East Sussex on 10 September 2001; the day before the tragic events of 11 September 2001 in the USA. Many people will remember what they were doing when they heard the news on the 11th, but what is remembered of the day before.
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Rachel Murphy
Mobile Medical Archive Unit
8 – 27 November 2004
A rebuilt medical trolley is used as an innovative computer system to explore attitudes towards health and illness from the 16th Century to the present day.
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Claudia Schenk
Things Unseen and Forgotten
4 October – 27 November 2004
Star Gallery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, 25 – 28 October 2004, 11.00 – 17.30
A series of illustrations and a book inspired by inventories, from the 1720's to the present day, of the contents of people’s homes.
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Folkestone Library & Museum

Stephen Connolly
Folkestone Obscura
4 October – 27 November 2004
A Film surveying 100 years of visual entertainment on Folkestone's seafront, capturing history and quieter moments of leisure by the sea using archival clips, a recreated camera obscura and new film footage with a soundtrack.
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Rob Kesseler
Botanizing the Library
4 October – 27 November 2004
A celebration of the flora of Folkestone drawing together diverse strands of science, botany and literature using artifacts and ephemera from the library and museum together with microscopic images of pollen.
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Bob and Roberta Smith
Day Out
4 October – 27 November 2004
Bob Smith launches an absurd campaign inspired by the satirical political posters and bizarre photographs of seaside entertainers.
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West Sussex Local Studies Collection in Worthing Library

Andrew Hunter
The Lalla Rookh Project: A Poetic Archive
4 October – 27 November 2004
Library windows Late October through November
A poetic memorial to the 'Brave Eleven', a group of fishermen who tragically drowned in the attempt to come to the aid of the ship Lalla Rookh on 25 November 1850.
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Simon Pope
A Walk from London to Worthing
4 October – 27 November 2004
A journey through the collections of the library, inspired by 19th century ‘route-planners’ and guidebooks of the trip from London to Worthing.
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Mah Rana
A First Class Ticket For Worthing
4 October – 27 November 2004
Mah Rana inherits a fictional piece of jewellery from her great great aunt Mary Garnett in 1901 and discovers threads of history and connections that spread around the world.
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Other Projects

Jason E Bowman
An exploration of how the thoughts, actions and opinions of individual and collective stories of local history and heritage come to represent civic culture.
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Sally O'Reilly & Cathy Haynes of Implicasphere
A Three–Fold Yarn
Free. Pick up a copy from any of the three main venues.
Derived from a game in which players find connections between facts and fables to create unexpected lines of association A Three Fold Yarn reveals facts and fictions that add a new layer of meaning to Navigating History and to the libraries' collections.
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Archive boxes
Each of the three main venues will contain four archive boxes of background material that inspired the commissions, as well as further reading and information on each of the practitioners. They will be available on request.

Publication
A limited edition book will explore the various projects that have been part of Navigating History. For information call 020 7209 4042 or contact info[at]navigating-history.net