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SINGLE SATURDAY AT MET PELHAM STREET CAMPUS, BRIGHTON:
LOOKING AT VICTORIAN ART - PAINTINGS AS SOCIAL HISTORY
Varndean College at
We study social, domestic, cultural and working life for all classes in an age of elegant living, the arts and literature. The Industrial Revolution inspired exciting new ideas, innovators, inventors, original thinkers and advances in science and technology. The period was also a time of great poverty, disease, illness and vice.
6 weeks 10.00 - 12.00 - Start 21 February*
Fee £75 £25 (Concessions) Enrol: 01273 546604
*Please note new start date
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for Sussex School of Archaeology and History:
The Victorian World:
Life, Death, Work and Leisure in Nineteenth Century England : Part II
We study the worlds of wealthy, middle and working class - from large country estates and town houses to humble cottages and London rookeries of the residuum; their social and cultural life, living and working conditions. We see the strict hierarchy which existed “below stairs” and domestic life of servants and their duties in large houses. Course themes include the poor and their lack of amenities, deficient nutrition and medical attention and effect of their appalling lives. One session will be on the fascinating rituals of death and mourning (not morbid).
5 weeks, Wednesday evening 7pm Start 2 March
Course code: VIC Fee £45
Enrol: https://www.sussexarchaeology.org/about-3-1
T: 01323 811785 info@sussexarchaeology.co.uk
For those who are interested in women’s studies and what life was like for them at work and in the home during the second world war, and post-war (late1940s & 50s); when lives and conditions had changed considerably
We study life for women at war and on the homefront: their occupations in the armed services, as pilots, nurses, typists, clerks; working in the Land Army, in factories, in the WRVS and other voluntary organisations, as well as being housewives and mothers. At home during war and after, women had to cope with rationing and learning to ‘make do and mend’ while attempting to remain glamorous keeping up with fashion and cosmetics.
When war ended women found it difficult to give up their new independence. Family life changed and so did relationships. We investigate social and cultural changes that followed the upheavals of World War 2, including architecture, housing, living and working conditions, relationships, fashion, books, cinema and public health - such as the forming of the NHS in 1948. We also focus on changes for women and the adjustments to their domestic, social and family life following the war.
Illustrated with PowerPoint slideshows,and documentary film.
10 weeks Wednesday start 19 January 1-3pm Ref CL0618 -1C Fee A £20 B £10 (Benefits) FULL
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/history-women-wwii-home-front-and-post-war-britain-brighton-met
MET PELHAM STREET CAMPUS, BRIGHTON:
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/history-the-edwardians-a-golden-age-1900-1914-brighton-metleisure
A History of Fashion and Society 1700-2000
This course is for lovers of fashion and British social and cultural history. It examines how social history has inspired fashion, just as clothes have influenced social and cultural history.
We examine how the social and cultural background of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced British fashion then and now; focussing on aspects of trendsetting fashion such as the voluminous and extravagant court dresses of the eighteenth century and the dandy; Victorian crinoline, bustle and aestheticism; Edwardian art nouveau, elegant art deco era, wartime recycling, swinging sixties, and subculture of mods, rockers, goths, skinheads and punks.
You will learn how to read fashion and how informs us us and what your clothes say about you. We will examine key style developments and designers such as Mary Quant and the "Swinging Sixties". A really exciting and fascinating course that will make you think differently about style, clothing and what you and others wear.
Illustrated with masses of fashion illustrations and powerpoint slideshows.
8 weeks start Tuesday 1.30-3.30pm Start 25 January Ref CL0276-1C Fee £105 2 places remaining
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/a-history-of-fashion-and-society-1700-2000-brighton-metleisure
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ROTTINGDEAN WHITEWAY CENTRE,
Whiteway Lane, Rottingdean (Brighton) BN2 7HB
Covid Precautions: distancing at tables. Sanitizer available. Face covering is to be worn in public areas, and in classroom if you wish. Windows and doors kept open.
Culture and Society Between-the-Wars (1918-1939)
Illustrated with powerpoint slideshows, film and documentary.
6 weeks Tuesday 1-3pm Start 26 April
Booking details will follow. Enquiries: enrolments@rwc.org.uk
MET course at WHITEHAWK INN
The History of Brighton – a unique resort
Ref CL0671 -1C Fee A £20 B £10 (Benefits) 2 places remaining
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/history-a-unique-resort-brighton-met-leisure
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/history-exploring-brightons-history-metleisure
Varndean College at The Church of the Holy Cross, Downsway, Woodingdean (Brighton) BN2 6BD 
An introduction into the world of the remarkable and influential Victorian period which spanned 64 years and saw many changes and advances, opening up spheres of communication, travel and consumerism, especially after the Great Exhibition of 1851.
6 weeks Monday 10.00 - 12.00 - May start date to be announced
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ROTTINGDEAN WHITEWAY CENTRE,
Whiteway Lane, Rottingdean (Brighton) BN2 7HB
Nearby car park on seafront road. Buses stop on seafront outside White Horse Inn, and no. 2 in the High Street
The flowing, curvaceous lines of Victorian Art Nouveau, followed by and compared with the interwar geometrical style of iconic Art Deco.
Art Nouveau was organic, using elements found in nature e.g. flowers, insects and trees. Its style was sensual with whiplash lines, tendrils of hair and sprouting vines, creating an asymmetrical and fanciful appearance. In comparison, iconic Art Deco style was geometric. It was associated with the Jazz Age, so was also described as "jazzy". It utilised modern technology and innovations, such as plastic, chrome, aluminium and electricity. The smooth, regular patterns were found in everything from art to fashion, furniture, light fittings, ornaments, glass, ceramics and jewellery. Its elegance furnished homes in a new, exciting fashion and hugely influenced cinema: facades, interiors, film sets and costumes. Both styles were innovative and daring, emerging from earlier influences – Egyptian being a major feature of Art Deco.
Illustrated with hundreds of colourful slides,
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OTHER EVENTS
followed by cocktails or tea at Metropole Hotel
Illustrated with powerpoint slideshow. Please read short novel before the session.
Fee £28 (plus booking fee) (Does not include refreshments at the Metropole for which you pay separately. Cocktails from £9, cup of tea £2.90, full afternoon tea £24 - two can share - Hotel suggests two afternoon teas shared by three - with additional cups of tea)
Lecturer and guide is ex-West Pier tour guide
13 Brunswick Square, Hove, BN3 1EH
A really exciting and unique event:
You will be welcomed with hot chocolate (or coffee) and plum cake in the kitchen followed by discussion on servant duties and then on to the basement of no. 10 Brunswick Square which is a time capsule, having been left undisturbed for many years, where you will enjoy a guided tour. Regency inspired lunch back at the Town House will be followed by an illustrated talk in the small servant hall on daily life for the wealthy who lived in the main part of the house - which we will then tour. Discussion, questions and answer session with afternoon tea and cake ends our pleasant day.
103-105 King's Road Arches, Brighton, BN1 2FN
