ABSTRACT
Sussex Humanities Lab has actively avoided becoming a digital humanities lab according to any narrow definition of digital humanities whilst mobilising critical and creative practice to stage encounters between technology and history and culture. This chapter presents the various historical and intellectual trajectories of the lab, emphasising the intersectional feminist principles which have shaped its development, and reflecting on how it has steered away from a service model, and negotiated a distinctive space and agenda amid a diverse set of disciplines, schools, and university structures. Priority areas and practices have evolved out of a set of concerns loosely connected with the digital but not in the mainstream of digital humanities and their epistemologies. This history has also been shaped by the material affordances and usage conventions of the lab as physical spaces, which have encouraged the evolution of experimental humanities and social science praxis.
