2016-2017
Walking into History: Brighton and Hove, The City and Social Change
Category: History
Code: IS 074
Level: 4
Credits: 15
Teaching Pattern
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Seminar
1 x 2hrs
1 x 2hrs
1 x 2hrs
1 x 2hrs
Field Trip
1 x 2hrs; 1 x 4 hrs 1 x 2hrs; 1 x 4 hrs 1 x 2hrs; 1 x 4 hrs 1 x 2hrs; 1 x 4 hrs
Tutorial
1 x 20mins
*in addition to the above formal teaching sessions you will be expected to do approximately 126 hours of
independent study over the 4 weeks.
Outline
Brighton & Hove is a city like no other; it grew on a part of the coast that allowed for cargo to be
landed and easily transported inland, it developed both fishing and farming industries (as well as
profitable smuggling enterprises!). From the 1750s it was one of the first ‘seaside health resorts’ but
was made ultra-fashionable by the Prince Regent in the 1820s. Modern Brighton is a cosmopolitan
city, famous for its restaurants, arts, theatre and cultural scenes, radical in its politics, with two
universities and with a large gay community. In this module you visit diverse local communities and
investigate how social and economic change has affected these neighbourhoods. You will do
detective work in the streets and squares, beaches and public parks of the city, as well as in local
libraries and archives.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to:
Observe, record and analyse a variety of data relating to urban areas
Critically assess a range of written materials of a primary and secondary nature
Be aware of societal variation across an urban area
Be aware of historical precedent affecting the present day landscape
Be aware of the externalities that affect urban neighbourhoods
Contacts
Geoff Mead
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E-mail: [email protected]
Phone :
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Indicative Reading List
Basic Brighton
Beevers D & Roles J 1993 A pictorial history of Brighton Breedon Derby
Carder T 1990 Encyclopaedia of Brighton ESCC Lewes
Collis R 2010 The new encyclopaedia of Brighton. Brighton & Hove city council
Farrant S, Fossey K, Peasgood A 1981
The growth of Brighton and Hove 1840-1939. CCE University of Sussex
Fines K 2002 A history of Brighton & Hove Phillimore Chichester
Hill D 1991 Underdog Brighton: a rather different history of the town Iconoclast Press Brighton
Historic
Berry, S. 2002 Myth and reality in the representation of resorts: Brighton and the emergence of the ‘Prince
and fishing village’ myth 1770-1824 SAC 202 97-112
Berry, S. 2005 Stanmer house and Park, East Sussex: the evolution of a small downland country house and
its setting c.1710-1805 [SAC] 144 239-257
Fitzgerald M 1939 Rents in Moulsecoomb: a report on rents and other costs of
living in three Brighton housing estates Southern Publishing Brighton
Jacobs,J 1990 ‘Drastic measures for the sturdy loafers’ Brighton Guardians and the able-bodied men in the
workhouse 1909-1914 SAC 128 225-242
Jacobs,J. 1991 Setting Brighton’s poor to work. The work of Brighton Distress Committee 1905-1914 SAC
129 217-237
Keeble W 1848 On the diseases of towns Brighton
Ray M 1989 Who were the Brunswick commissioners? Sussex Archaeological Collections 127 211-228
Ray, M. 1991 The Victorian Boarding School in a suburb of an English seaside resort [Brunswick Town] SAC
129 256-258
Ray, M. 1993 Domestic servants in a superior suburb: Brunswick Town, Hove. SAC 131 172-184
Roberts, D 2006 A failed rehousing scheme in Brighton by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
144 191-201
Sheppard, J.A. 2008 Brighton’s railway district in the mid-nineteenth century SAC 146 189-197
Warne, H. 1989 Stanmer: a restructured settlement SAC 127 189-210
Whittick, M. 1993 A three-headed Cerberus: Brighton and the Health of Towns Bill 1847 SAC 131 159-171
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Contemporary
Antram N & Morrice R 2008 Pevsner architectural guides: Brighton & Hove
Yale University Press
Brandon P 1998 The South Downs Phillimore Chichester
Burnett J 1978 A social history of housing 1815-1970 David & Charles
Coates R 2010 A place name history of Rottingdean and Ovingdean English Place Name Society
Nottingham
Dunn R 1990 Moulescoomb days QueenSpark Brighton
Dyos HJ 1968 The study of urban history Arnold
Farrant J&S 1975 Preston in the 17th&18th centuries CCE University of Sussex
Farrant S 1985 Changes in Brighton and Hove’s suburbs, Preston & Patcham
1841-1871 Privately printed Hove
Gray JS 1976 Brighton between the wars Batsford
Hardy D & Ward C 1984 Arcadia for all: the legacy of an informal landscape Mansell
Jones L & Pollard J 1999 Hilly Laine to Hanover: a Brighton neighbourhood Brighton Books
King AD 1984 The bungalow: the production of a global culture RKP
Leslie K & Short B 1999 An historical atlas of Sussex Phillimore Chichester
Lowerson J 1972 Victorian Sussex BBC Brighton
Mead GEF 1986 ‘The retail trade is considerable’ Sussex Archaeological Society Newsletter 45 pp430-432
Lewes
Mead GEF 1989 Aspects of Brighton’s market garden industry Sussex Archaeological Society 127 262-263
Lewes
Mercer P & Holland D 1993 The Huns mere Pit: the story of Woodingdean and
Balsdean Book Guild Lewes
Middleton J 2001 Brunswick Town Privately printed Hove
Montford S, Pollard J & Sanderson R 1996 The vanishing villas of Preston & Withdean Brighton Books
Montford S 2004 Preston: Downland village to Brighton suburb Brighton Books
Montford S [ed] 2005 The landscape book of Brighton prints Brighton Books
Nairn I & Pevsner N 1965 The buildings of England: Sussex. Penguin Harmondsworth
Bentley I 1981 Dunroamin: the suburban semi and its enemies Barrie & Jenkins
Orbach LF 1977 Homes for heroes: a study of the evolution of British public
housing 1915-1921 Seeley Service
Paul A 1974 Poverty, hardship but happiness: those were the days 1903-1917
QueenSpark Brighton
Paul A 1981 Hard work and no consideration:51 years as a carpenter-joiner 1917-1968 QueenSpark
Brighton
Payne T & Bernard S 2000 Peacehaven: a chronology.
Paths Publications Peacehaven
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Peasgood A [in Farrant S et al 1981] Public transport and the growth of Brighton 1840-1940 41-52
Peasgood A 1985 The horse buses of Brighton CCE University of Sussex Falmer
Peto J & Loveday D 1999 Modern Britain 1929-1939 Design Museum
Pickering WF 1972 The West Brighton estate: a study in Victorian urban expansion
Sussex Industrial History 5 14-30 SIAS
Pollard J & Apps R 1993 Past & present: the story of Blaker’s Park Brighton Books
QueenSpark Rates Book Group1983 Brighton on the rocks: monetarism and the local state New Series 1
QueenSpark Brighton
Round Hill Local History Group 2004 Rose Hill to Roundhill: a Brighton community Brighton Books
Rodger R 1989 Housing in urban Britain 1780-1914 Macmillan
Ryman E 1984 Guide to the Devils Dyke Dyke Brighton
Ryman E & Mead GEF 1992 Glimpses of old Patcham Dyke Brighton
Scott E 1995 Hove: a pictorial history Phillimore Chichester
Sheail J 1992 The South Downs and Brighton’s water supplies Southern History 14 93-111
Walker A 2002 Churchill Square revisited; a lost Brighton community
Brighton Books
Ward C & Hardy D 1985 The plotlanders Oral History 13 n2 57-70
Winter S 1998 Moulescoomb memories QueenSpark Brighton
Woodham JM 1994 Fact, fiction and fantasy: design in Brighton between the wars
Southern History 6 152-179
University Library
The Library,
University of Sussex,
Brighton
BN1 9QL
Phone: 01273 678163
[email protected]
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