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Martha Gunn and the Women Who Worked the Georgian Beach
Place Brighton’s famous dipper within the wider female workforce that managed sea bathing and visitor care.
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Social history, creative life and the people whose work changed Brighton & Hove.
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Sake Dean Mahomed’s Brighton Years
Examine migration, authorship, therapeutic practice and royal patronage without turning the piece into a commercial profile.
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Thomas Read Kemp and the Reinvention of East Brighton
Assess the religious, political and speculative ambitions behind Kemp’s influence on the town and its eastern estate.
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Amon Wilds and Charles Busby: Designing Regency Brighton
Untangle the partnership and individual contributions behind many of Brighton and Hove’s defining terraces and crescents.
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George Albert Smith and Hove’s Film Experiments
Explain how Smith’s techniques and local collaborators helped develop editing, close-ups and early colour film.
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Magnus Volk and Brighton’s Electrical Imagination
Use Volk’s inventions and public projects to explore Victorian enthusiasm for electricity and experimental transport.
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Brighton and Hove’s Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
Map local organisers, meetings, tactics and opposition within the national struggle for political rights.
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How LGBTQ+ Communities Helped Shape the Modern City
Build a careful archive-led history of meeting, organising, visibility, discrimination and civic recognition.
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