Brighton: why so different?
Dr Geoffrey Mead SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Regions:
- Surrey, East Sussex, Kent, West Sussex, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, London
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Local interest/professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £100 + travel
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 27th March 2026
- Tagged:
- Social And Economic History | Radical Thinking
Everybody knows Brighton! Its pier, beach, theatres, music venues, bars, radical thinking, Green MPs, Gay -friendly, students and day- trippers. But why so diverse a community? what are the historic origins of its 'difference?
Views: 7 | Enquiries: 0About Dr Geoffrey Mead
I was a tutor with the Geography team at the University of Sussex. 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, gardening groups to 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
- Channel coastlands
- 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
- Brighton's Chalk Pit Furlong: a lost city landscape
- 'Illuminating the Soul': aspects of Brighton's religious buildings
- The High Weald & The South Downs National Park
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