Event
Socks and Sandals: Fashion faux-pas or political statement? – 18th September 2025
This talk examines a much-ridiculed aspect of British s … Read more
Why are we obsessed with crime? – 15th August 2024
Crime fiction’s popularity shows no sign of waning. If … Read more
Daniel Defoe’s tour of South East England 1724 – 18th July 2024
Daniel Defoe is known to all as the author of Robinson … Read more
Captain Camp and the Bottom Scratchers – 25th April 2024
Paul Farrington has swam in the sea by the Palace Pier … Read more
Soaring over the West Pier: Drone Filming West Pier Ruins – 1st February 2024
In 2023 Sam Moore filmed the West Pier one early May mo … Read more
What the Sixties did to/for Brighton – 27th June 2024
The sixties was a decade of enormous change: from tower … Read more
Secrets of the Royal Pavilion – 29th February 2024
A Talk by Jackie Marsh-Hobbs on the Secrets of the Roya … Read more
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Thomas Kemp of Kemptown – 23rd May 2024
In 1823, local landowner Thomas Kemp conceived the idea … Read more
On the Back of a Postcard – 28th March 2024
How was Brighton experienced, historically, as a place … Read more
Walking on Water: Some new West Pier stories – 23rd November 2023
Some new West Pier stories In the 25 years since Walkin … Read more
Pierspace – 6th July 2023
The next exhibition at the West Pier Centre, Pierspace, … Read more
Moments of the West Pier captured in Art – 28th September 2023
A talk by Jackie Marsh-Hobbs The life of the West Pier … Read more