A Garden City Dream

Winckler, J. (Presenter)
Nicolette Fox (Presenter)
Geoffrey Mead (Presenter)

Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

Brains At The Bevy: Expert-led talk

Period	7 May 2025
Degree of Recognition	Local

Keywords

Photography
Garden City Movement
Plotlands
Bloomsbury Group
Archives
Community engagement

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Drawing from her book, Fabricating Lureland, Julia will share insights into the ideals and imagery from the Garden City Movement that sparked the creation of the town. an interwar development marketed as a 'garden city by the sea’. Like the suburbs of Brighton, its development was also influenced by World War I and the impact of crowded and industrialised cities. Despite Virginia and Leonard Woolf branding the new settlement a 'blot' on the rolling, pastoral downland, it was marketed as a place for people from all walks of life to own their own homes in an environment bordered by the sea, chalk white cliffs and downland.

Related content

Research output
Fabricating Lureland: A History of the Imagination and Memory of Peacehaven, a Speculative Interwar Garden City Development by the Sea
Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored › peer-review