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Preston
Manor
(End of Preston Park, Brighton
-entry off Preston Drove)
Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston
Park railway station nearby
BEHIND
THE SCENES: GARDEN TOUR
Friday 1
June
11.15a.m-12.45pm
A rare chance
to see Preston Manor’s walled kitchen garden. Not open to the public the space
contains evidence of former gardener’s and chauffeur’s cottages, an ancient
orchard, vegetable plots and a recent archaeological dig. Discover the
personalities behind outdoor life in service at a grand Edwardian house and be
surprised by what lies below the topsoil.
£15 book in
advance (starts with tea/coffee & biscuits)
Only few tickets left Tel: 03000 290902
BEHIND THE SCENES
Thursdays 28
June & 19 July, Friday 24 August
11.15a.m-12.45pm
Explore parts of Preston Manor
not on the public route. From cosy private rooms inhabited by the first curator
and family, in 1930s, to a secret wartime operations room in the cellar, this
tour reveals hidden spaces and shows Preston Manor in a fascinating new light.
Guided by
Sarah Tobias and Paula Wrightson
£15 book in
advance (starts with tea/coffee & biscuits)
Early
booking advised as places limited Tel:
03000 290902
Regency
Town House
13 Brunswick Square, Hove
A peek
into the Edwardian wardrobe - a fashion extravaganza
Sunday 17
June 2-4pm
includes afternoon tea
The Town House welcomes you to an afternoon of Edwardian
fashion.
Marian May presents dresses worn by Edwardian debutantes
as they were presented at court or attended the Summer Season events to places
such as Royal Ascot. This will be followed by an Edwardian afternoon tea and
then a talk by Sarah Tobias on what was involved for getting ready for the
Season and all it entailed including dining and visiting the seaside.
Fee £16.31
FULL -
Waiting List
For students 18-24 years from non-UK countries
COOL BRITANNIA: HOW FASHION SHAPED BRITISH CULTURE (1800-2018)
Session 2: 4 weeks 23 July-16 August
Tutor Sarah Tobias
Field trips include: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Museum of London, National Portrait Gallery , Victoria & Albert Museum (London)
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/iss/modules/directory/2016/63449
Field trips include: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Museum of London, National Portrait Gallery , Victoria & Albert Museum (London)
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/iss/modules/directory/2016/63449
(2017 fee £1,558 for 15 credit module plus housing £158 per week & field trips fee £65)
Courses currently running:
Whitehawk Inn Community Centre : Wealth & Poverty in Late Victorian & Edwardian Britain
A new and exciting vision of domestic history as revealed in literature, art and the moving image: interpretations of late-Victorian cultural and social developments.
Illustrated with slides, video, books and paintings.
Wednesday 10 weeks 1-3pm (3 weeks 2-4pm) Start 25 April
Contact tutor direct to enrol
Brighton Metropolitan College
RSummer in the City: exploring Brighton’s unique history R
2 classroom sessions & 3 Brighton field trips
We study the fascinating history of Brighton in two classroom sessions giving a brief historical overview and looking at early maps. This will be followed by three field trips, getting to know our unique city. FULL
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2018-19
Enrolment opens 1 June - book early to ensure a place, some courses fill up quickly
AUTUMN 2018
Elegance and
Enlightenment: English Society in the Eighteenth Century
A course for lovers of the arts and
social history, looking at elegant Georgian life and the many innovations and
developments in a time of enlightenment and advances in all aspects of
eighteenth century life for rich and poor.
Course aims and information
We study an age of elegant living,
enlightenment, the arts, culture, literature, the Grand Tour, scientific
experiment, observance of nature and new ideas. There were many innovators,
inventors and original thinkers spawned in this era and we see the Industrial
Revolution and all that it inspired, including the use of mass-produced goods,
textiles, machinery and technology.
Science, anatomy and the
study of the human form were of great interest. This was also the age of
travel with improvements to roads and carriages which led to coaching inns. The
era saw the beginnings of consumerism and shopping and was a period of ideas
and advancement in every form and the beginnings of our modern
society.
Illustrated with powerpoint slideshows,
prints and paintings.
10 weeks Monday
1.30-3.30pm start 17 September
Pelham Street campus. Ref no:
Fee: A £119 B £90 C £69
Enrol in person at
Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667767
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/courses/history-elegance-enlightenment-english-society-in-the-eighteenth-century
Conflict and Revolution: The Stuart Age 1603-1702
This interesting,
exciting period of history witnessed the commercial development and importance
of overseas trade, as well as agriculture, industry, technology and science –
all having an impact on our modern society.
Course
aims and information
We study themes of population,
agriculture, social and domestic life and women’s role in this period. After the 1688 Glorious Revolution came a
time of restoration and rebuilding including Christopher Wren’s St Pauls
Cathedral and other large-scale building
This fascinating period
witnessed the foundation of the Bank of England (1694) and the growth of
London. Social activities and pastimes
include food and dining (and a few recipes), manners etiquette, clubs and
coffee houses. We also study how men and women’s fashions were changing,
cultural and intellectual pursuits and how Christmas was spent.
Illustrated with
powerpoint slideshows, prints and paintings.
10 weeks Tuesday
7-9pm. Start Tue 18 September 2018 (end 27 Nov)
Pelham Street campus. Ref no: COM520
Fee: A £119 B £90 C £69
Enrol in
person at Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667767
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/courses/history-conflict-and-revolution-the-stuart-age-1603-1702
Fortnightly Saturdays Autumn 2018:
The Novel as Social History: London
Unique course
comprising literature, social and cultural history and book club – and lively
discussion! Within the pages of the
novel we discover more than a story. We study the social and cultural history
by exploring background information we are absorbing unwittingly and which is
not the main theme, but which gives us a deeper and clearer understanding of
period and general minutiae of everyday life.
Course aims and information
We study the
social and cultural history of the novel by exploring the background
information we are absorbing unwittingly and which is not the main theme, but
which gives us a deeper and clearer understanding of period and general
minutiae of everyday life.
Within every
piece of fiction is a wealth of information on culture and social life which
can lead us into a deeper understanding of a subject, time or place, period in
history, genre, working conditions, habits, style or social trend that we might
pursue further, or deepen our knowledge and intensify our interest.
THIS TERM: writers
include George Gissing, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Ransome, E.F. Benson, George
Orwell, Patrick Hamilton, Elizabeth Bowen, Gerald Kersh, Monica Dickens and Michael
Moorcock Full reading list is available from tutor and
you are expected to participate in group discussion.
5 weeks
fortnightly Saturday 11am-1pm start 22 September (end 17 Nov) Pelham Street
campus. Ref no: Fee: A £62 B £47 £31
Enrol in
person at Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667767
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/courses/history-the-novel-as-social-history-london
Preston Manor (Preston Drove, Brighton)
Free parking, buses stop almost outside and trains nearby
The
Edwardians- A Golden Age (1900-1910)
If you would
like to study in the unique setting of a fabulous historic house and you like
history this course is definitely for you. Lessons take place in the panelled
Macquoid Room.
Course aims and information
We study the
short ‘Golden Age’ before ‘the black pit of war’ (J.B. Priestley’s description)
that was to change the idyll of elegant living for the wealthy socialising on a
grand scale, but was also a tarnished age for the poor living in slums.
We compare
domestic, social and cultural life, including how paintings and literature
depicted society. Includes house and garden tours above and below stairs by the
tutor who is also a Preston Manor guide and lecturer. The house is on four
floors.
Illustrated
with powerpoint slideshows, books, prints, paintings and texts.
8 weeks
Tuesday 1-3pm Start 02 October 2018 (end
27 Nov)
Ref no: COM565 Fee: A £96 B £72 £24
Enrol in
person at Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667767
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/courses/history-edwardians-1900-1910
SATURDAY ALL DAY:
Preston Manor (Preston Drove, Brighton)
Free parking, buses stop almost outside and trains nearby
A House in Mourning
If you would like to study in
the unique setting of a fabulous historic house and you are interested in the
Victorian rituals of death and mourning -this course is definitely for you!
We study how death and
mourning were part of everyday life in Victorian England. Death played an
intricate and symbolic role. Mourning was filled with ritual and lasted a long
time - two years for a widow - and spawned much industry in the way of clothing,
jewellery, teapots, stationery and everything associated with undertaking.
Two rooms of the house will
be dressed for mourning as it would have been in Edwardian times. There will be
illustrated lectures in the panelled Macquoid room, plus a rare opportunity to
view short b&w film on Victorian Rituals of Death and Mourning”, which was
partly shot at Preston Manor in 2014.
There is nothing macabre and the customs are
fascinating and very interesting
Bring a packed lunch to eat in the servants
quarters Tea and coffee will be supplied.
Illustrated with powerpoint and film.
Saturday 13 October 2018
11am-3pm Ref: COM565 Fee: £25
Enrol in person at Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667767
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/courses/history-a-house-in-mourning-day-course
Keep the Homefires Burning – Women in the First World War
Saturday 10 November 2018 11am-3pm
Pelham St campus. Ref No:
Pelham St campus. Ref No:
A Sussex Christmas: customs, myths and legends of winter in the
festive season
Saturday 01 December 2018 11am-3pm
Pelham St campus. Ref No:
Pelham St campus. Ref No:
An Edwardian Christmas
Saturday 8 December 11am-3pm
Preston Manor, Preston Drove (free parking, buses stop almost outside, train station nearby). Ref No:
Preston Manor, Preston Drove (free parking, buses stop almost outside, train station nearby). Ref No:
SPRING 2019
Gorgeous Georgians; Life in eighteenth century England
10 weeks Monday 1.30-3.30pm starting January 2019 Pelham
St. Ref No:
Culture and Society Between the Wars 1918-1939
8 weeks Tuesday 1-3pm Start 22 January 2019 Preston
Manor, Preston Drove. Ref:
The Novel as Social History: London-second impressions
5 weeks fortnightly Saturday 11am-1pm starting 26 January
2019 Pelham St. Ref:
Spring SATURDAY
Women, Work and Wartime (WWII)
Saturday 16 March 11am-3pm Pelham St. Ref
No:
SUMMER 2019
Space, Light & Speed: Art Deco and Modernism 1918-1939
5 weeks Tuesday 7-9pm. Start Tue 23? April 2019 Pelham St. Ref
No:
A Grand Tour of Georgian and Regency Indulgence
5 weeks Monday 1.30-3.30pm starting 29 April 2019 (end 10 June) Pelham St. Ref :
Summer Reading: Books, books and more books!
Saturday 27 April 10am-4pm Pelham St.
Ref No:
Summer in the City: exploring Brighton’s unique history
Two classroom sessions and 3 field trips in Brighton
5 weeks Saturday 11am-1pm starting 04 May 2019 (end 01
June) Ref:
TEL 01273 667788
Sarah Tobias MA, BA Hons, Dip Eur Hum
Entertaining lecturer in social, cultural and local (Brighton, Sussex, UK) history
Contact me for talks/guided walks/visits for groups, clubs, societies.
Current list of 30+ topics
Also contact me for poetry readings and narrations.
More information about me, my subjects, research and contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tobias-0318943a?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
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Courses -Venue Addresses, transport and refreshments
Brighton Metroplitan College MET (formerly City College)
Pelham Street, Brighton BN1 4FA
Location:
Behind York Place & London Road, turn up Cheapside – Aldi supermarket on corner. Or, turn left in Trafalgar St walking down from Station.
Transport & Parking:
Lots of buses nearby.
Nearby car park, about 5 minutes walk.
Railway station few minutes walk
Refreshments and further information:
College canteen. Tea and coffee bar on balcony of Main Building. Vending machine.
Coffee shops, small cafés and public houses in nearby London Road
London Road and Trafalgar Street: many shops, some banks and supermarkets
Whitehawk Inn Community Centre
Whitehawk Road Brighton, BN2 3NS
Transport & Parking:
Buses stop nearby and some outside venue
Metered street car parking
Refreshments:
Café and garden area
Further information:
Shops, Co-op, public library in same road.
Few minutes walk to sea, beach and Marina or East Brighton Park
Woodingdean Library
Warren Road, Brighton, BN2 6BA
Transport & Parking:
Car park outside Library. Bus nos 2, 22 stop nearby.
Refreshments:
Tea-making facilities in room. Small cafes nearby. Downs Hotel across the road serves tea, coffee and refreshments at bar and has outside area.
Further information:
Shops, Co-op, dry cleaners nearby
Preston Manor
Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD
Location:
Situated at end of Preston Park.
Transport & Parking:
Buses and rail nearby
Free parking outside and in adjacent street.
Refreshments:
No cafe. Refreshments provided by staff
Delicatessen cafe and public houses opposite and in Preston Drove. Chalet restaurant in park.
Sussex University
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH
Location:
Campus located in the South Downs National Park
Transport & Parking:
Buses and rail nearby
Car parks
Refreshments:
Cafes and restaurants on campus.
Co-op, pharmacy, books and stationery shops
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