This courses commences on Tuesday 21st January, one week after term starts, and runs for fours weeks then six weeks after half term. The extra date is 1st April.

We study the late GEORGIAN/REGENCY era and its social, domestic, cultural and working life, as well as the arts, medical matters, distinctive architecture – and many coffee houses! The latter served as public and social places where the Stock Exchange, Lloyds of London and auction houses were spawned. 

Brighton is much associated with this period: the extravagances of the Prince Regent (the “Regency”) and his remarkable palace at a time when the fashionable visited the seaside town to take the waters and be entertained.

In EARLY VICTORIAN BRITAIN we see the continuing effects of the Industrial revolution and how it impacted on life in factories and mills. We study each strata of society, from the affluent upper classes, to the new, aspirational middle-class and the miserable lowly poor, and consider all aspects of social, domestic and working life.

Highly illustrated with PowerPoint slideshows.

For further information contact the tutor: SARAH.TOBIAS@gbmc.ac.uk, https://sarah-tobias.blogspot.com/                                                             

Formerly an Associate Tutor for CCE at the University of Sussex, Sarah Tobias is an experienced and sympathetic adult education tutor who started her teaching career 24 years ago at Rottingdean Whiteway Centre. She has a Diploma in European Humanities; BA Hons in History and European Humanities; Master’s Degree in Histories and Cultures and Certificates in Further Education Teaching. Sarah is a social, cultural and local historian and an established, experienced university lecturer, college tutor, public speaker (over 30 subjects), tour guide and writer. She is also an occasional dramatic narrator, costumed role player, playwright and filmmaker. https://sarah-tobias.blogspot.com/