Faculty Firings and Financial Troubles at the University of Sussex

There is lots of information at this site.  Although it does not appear yet that Philosophy faculty are being fired (though Philosophy is a unit clearly under scrutiny), among the bizarre decisions is to end "early modern history" as a topic for research at the "university" (I think one would have to put "University" of Sussex in quotes going forward--the idea of a purported "research" university declaring "early mmodern history" as not a subject-matter to be covered is quite something).  These are bad times for higher education in the U.K.