diff --git a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content/Item.java b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content/Item.java
index 6dee7aeff5..4bca5d5782 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content/Item.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content/Item.java
@@ -244,6 +244,52 @@ public class Item extends DSpaceObject
         return new ItemIterator(context, rows);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the list of Items submitted by eperson, ordered by recently submitted, optionally limitable
+     * @param context
+     * @param eperson
+     * @param limit a positive integer to limit, -1 or null for unlimited
+     * @return
+     * @throws SQLException
+     */
+    public static ItemIterator findBySubmitterDateSorted(Context context, EPerson eperson, Integer limit) throws SQLException
+    {
+        String querySorted =    "SELECT \n" +
+                "  item.item_id, \n" +
+                "  item.submitter_id, \n" +
+                "  item.in_archive, \n" +
+                "  item.withdrawn, \n" +
+                "  item.owning_collection, \n" +
+                "  item.last_modified, \n" +
+                "  metadatavalue.text_value\n" +
+                "FROM \n" +
+                "  public.item, \n" +
+                "  public.metadatafieldregistry, \n" +
+                "  public.metadatavalue\n" +
+                "WHERE \n" +
+                "  metadatafieldregistry.metadata_field_id = metadatavalue.metadata_field_id AND\n" +
+                "  metadatavalue.item_id = item.item_id AND\n" +
+                "  metadatafieldregistry.element = 'date' AND \n" +
+                "  metadatafieldregistry.qualifier = 'accessioned' AND \n" +
+                "  item.submitter_id = ? AND \n" +
+                "  item.in_archive = true\n" +
+                "ORDER BY\n" +
+                "  metadatavalue.text_value desc";
+
+        TableRowIterator rows;
+
+        if(limit != null && limit > 0) {
+            querySorted += " limit ? ;";
+            rows = DatabaseManager.query(context, querySorted, eperson.getID(), limit);
+        } else {
+            querySorted += ";";
+            rows = DatabaseManager.query(context, querySorted, eperson.getID());
+        }
+
+        return new ItemIterator(context, rows);
+
+    }
+
     /**
      * Get the internal ID of this item. In general, this shouldn't be exposed
      * to users
diff --git a/dspace-xmlui/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/xmlui/aspect/submission/Submissions.java b/dspace-xmlui/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/xmlui/aspect/submission/Submissions.java
index e80ca69d7f..a9014b107a 100644
--- a/dspace-xmlui/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/xmlui/aspect/submission/Submissions.java
+++ b/dspace-xmlui/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/xmlui/aspect/submission/Submissions.java
@@ -334,7 +334,16 @@ public class Submissions extends AbstractDSpaceTransformer
     {
         // Turn the iterator into a list (to get size info, in order to put in a table)
         List subList = new LinkedList();
-        ItemIterator subs = Item.findBySubmitter(context, context.getCurrentUser());
+
+        Integer limit;
+
+        if(displayAll) {
+            limit = -1;
+        } else {
+            //Set a default limit of 50
+            limit = 50;
+        }
+        ItemIterator subs = Item.findBySubmitterDateSorted(context, context.getCurrentUser(), limit);
 
         //NOTE: notice we are adding each item to this list in *reverse* order...
         // this is a very basic attempt at making more recent submissions float 
@@ -344,7 +353,7 @@ public class Submissions extends AbstractDSpaceTransformer
         {
             while (subs.hasNext())
             {
-                subList.add(0, subs.next());
+                subList.add(subs.next());
             }
         }
         finally
@@ -371,7 +380,6 @@ public class Submissions extends AbstractDSpaceTransformer
         //Limit to showing just 50 archived submissions, unless overridden
         //(This is a saftey measure for Admins who may have submitted 
         // thousands of items under their account via bulk ingest tools, etc.)
-        int limit = 50;
         int count = 0;
 
         // Populate table
@@ -420,7 +428,7 @@ public class Submissions extends AbstractDSpaceTransformer
         }//end while
 
         //Display limit text & link to allow user to override this default limit
-        if(!displayAll && count>limit)
+        if(!displayAll && count == limit)
         {
             Para limitedList = completedSubmissions.addPara();
             limitedList.addContent(T_c_limit);