Wartime Brighton
Snapshots: Joan Nash and a Wartime Night at the Dome
A cache of photographs and letters found behind an organ screen leads back to a nineteen-year-old woman, wartime dances and one night in July 1942.
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Histories from beneath the surface.
Buildings, crowds and forgotten lives reveal the forces that made Brighton. These illustrated histories began as talks, magazine articles and journeys through local archives.
Illustrated histories
Three stories of the city
1866-1935
Inside the Dome
From gas chandeliers and musical superstars to suffragettes, soldiers and the startling reopening of 1935.
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May 1964
The Battle of Brighton
What really happened when Mods and Rockers came to Brighton—and why a scuffle became a national myth.
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Brighton Racecourse
At the Races
A journey through ninety million years of Whitehawk Hill, from the Cretaceous sea and Neolithic camp to horses, crowds and racecourse gangs.
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Brighton and invasion
You Can't Keep a Good Dog Down
How sea bathing, royal patronage and the threat of war helped a battered fishing town reinvent itself.
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Industrial history
The Greatest Showmen
The steam-powered showman's engines that carried light, music and wonder around the country.
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Brighton Dome
What Can We Do with the Dome?
How royal stables became a concert hall—and a stage for the extraordinary personalities of the age.
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