Channel coastlands
Dr Geoffrey Mead SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Local interest/professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £80 plus travel if needed
- Category:
- Nature
- Updated:
- 12th October 2020
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The English Channel coastline contains world famous sights; the Seven Sisters, the White Cliffs of Dover and Brighton's Palace Pier, but it also contains some quiet corners of less visited places, of saltmarsh and creeks in Chichester Harbour and shingle banks at Dungeness, places with more birdlife than people. This talk looks at a range of these from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to the Sussex and Kent shorelines, taking in human as well as physical landscapes.
Views: 891 | Enquiries: 3About Dr Geoffrey Mead
I am an Associate Tutor with the Geography team at the University of Sussex where I thought I had retired...10 years ago! I specialise in the landscapes of SE England, in both urban and rural areas and I did my doctorate in the suburban growth of the interwar period. I taught adult education for nearly 30 years at Sussex where I worked in the Landscape Studies degree team and was Convenor for Local History. I give talks across SE England to a wide range of groups, from universities to local history societies, WI groups , U3A, Probus and Round Tables. I run weekly classes at local community centres. The most requested from my range of talks are those that combine social history, geography, geology and a 'sense of place'. I can adapt my talks to particular areas or interests.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Dr Geoffrey Mead
- Landscapes of SE England
- The South at Work
- Feeding the Nation-agriculture in the South
- Brighton before the Royal Pavilion
- Sussex Literary Landscapes
- 'Scattered squalor'...'Downland Homes': aspects of housing history
- What is Landscape?
- Resorting to the coast- aspects of holiday history
- Sussex landscapes
- The working coast
- 'A man may have constant employ';Sussex Industrial History,a different view
- The journey to the South Downs National Park
- Brighton: West End - East End
- Hearth & Home: aspects of housing in Southern England
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