Brighton before the Royal Pavilion
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:
- History
- Updated:
- 12th October 2020
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Brighton is generally associated with being a seaside resort with the Royal Pavilion as its centre piece. This talk looks at Brighton before leisure pursuits and the royal family stamped that image on the place; a town of fishermen and small farmers on an unforgiving storm-wracked coast with steep hills as its backdrop. We look at the physical landscape of chalk downlands and shingle shorelines and why, even pre George IV it was an important town.
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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
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- Feeding the Nation-agriculture in the South
- Channel coastlands
- 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
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