Talks and Tours
All-Inclusive History provide a selection of talks, tours, walking tours and other events in Sussex and the South East.
All of the talks and tours listed can be either a talk or a tour, based at your location, and last approximately 1 to 1.5 hours, dependant on request. Costs are £85 to £105 per hour, depending on numbers, travel and other requirements.
Walking tours, in Brighton and Worthing, range from £5 to £12 per head depending on location, topic and duration. Motorised tours start at £30 per person with a minimum of ten attendees.
A history of the new in Brighton
A look at the launch events, grand openings and first days of buildings and events in Brighton and Hove.
A-Z of Brighton/Worthing
A unique history of Brighton/Worthing – can also be presented as a quiz or gameshow to this text in the module Advanced settings.
Beef Every Day But No Latin
A new walking tour of the sites of Hove that form the backdrop to my forthcoming book about 11 year-old James Clifton who set up Claremont School in Hove in 1925, which served up ‘beef every day but no latin’. The school still exists today in Sussex!
Brighton & Hove in 50 Buildings
A talk based upon my 2016 book of this title, looking at the buildings of the city that tell an interesting tale.
Brilliant Brighton!
A celebrationary talk or talk of all that is brilliant about the Queen of Watering places – based on my 2016 Argus supplement.
Business in Brighton
The tale of development of Brighton’s industries, from early fishing and farming, to the entertainment and hospitality boom, Victorian entrepreneurs and the hi-tech today.
City of Cemeteries
Being a hospital town in WWI and in the front-line during WWII means Brighton, Hove and Portslade’s cemeteries are full of interesting war graves. Kevin Newman and Amanda Jane Scales take you on walking tours of these.
Churchill’s Brighton
The story of Winston’s relationship with the Queen of watering places.
Health, life, disease and death in Brighton
A talk exploring how Brighton has led to both expanded and reduced lifespans throughout its history – and how it is linked to the greatest medical movers and shakers.
Height in Brighton
The story of ever-taller buildings in Brighton and Hove – from early days to i360.
Hops and Heritage
Walking tours of Brighton and Lewes’s breweries, or personalised motorised tours of Sussex’s breweries past and present.
Hotels of Brighton and Hove/Sussex
The development of hotels in the city, from earliest inns to developments in hotels today – or of the hostelries across the county.
All-Inclusive Brighton
Amanda Jane Scales takes you on a walking tour of what makes Brighton the most inclusive, welcoming and tolerant of cities.
Lewes Pubs
A talk where you can attempt the virtual tour of the pubs and breweries mentioned in my 2016 book, Lewes Pubs – or see ‘Hops and Heritage’ for the walking tour.
Literary Brighton/Sussex
Discover the impact of great authors, from Austen and Belloc to Wilde and Greene.
Lost Brighton
An exploration of Brighton’s lost or forgotten buildings, places and traditions.
Lost Visions of Brighton/ Sussex
An exploration of the many schemes and visions for development of Brighton and Sussex that never came into fruition.
People’s Brighton
The stories of the unreported builders of Brighton: its workers, immigrants and families that helped develop the resort and make it Britain’s premier seaside city.
Pevsner’s Brighton
The architecture of Brighton from its earliest buildings to i360.
Recycled Brighton
How Brighton has reused and recycled its purpose, people and places.
Royal Brighton
The tale of the many royals that helped make Brighton ‘the queen of watering places’.
Seagulls’ City
A motorised tour of the story of Brighton and Hove Albion.
Secret Brighton/Sussex
An extension of my 2016 book ‘Secret Brighton’ – a talk about the little known and hidden aspects of Brighton – and Sussex
Victoria’s Brighton
A talk that challenges Brighton’s negative perceptions of the Queen who sold the Pavilion, based on my provocative article in the Argus newspaper.
Visitors’ Historic East Sussex/ Brighton and Hove
A perspective on Sussex, based on my forthcoming 2019 book for Pen and Sword.
Volk’s Brighton
The story of Brighton’s greatest inventor and engineer – talk or tour.
The Old Ship
Talks and guided tours of Brighton’s oldest hotel.
Waterhouse’s Waterside Wonder
The tale of the 125 years of Alfred Waterhouse’s only seafront hotel and public building, the Hilton Brighton Metropole.
Architectural Worthing
An exploration of Worthing’s architectural history from earliest days to the contemporary.
Austen’s Worthing/Sussex
A talk/walking tour of Worthing’s most famous temporary resident – and motorised tour of Worthing and Brighton.
Cultural Worthing
The story of how Austen, Shelley, Wilde and other authors are linked with Worthing.
Lost Worthing
An exploration of Worthing’s lost or forgotten buildings, places and traditions.
Royal Worthing
The tale of the many royals that have visited and had an impact on this seaside town.
Worthing Behaving Badly
A talk and tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of the airing of the penultimate episode of 90’s sitcom Men Behaving Badly and its visit to Worthing.
Spooky East Worthing
A walking tour of the spookiest side of Worthing!
WWI Worthing/Brighton
Telling how the Great War effected these Sussex settlements and life through the war.
50 Gems of Sussex
Ancient Sussex
A talk or tour of Sussex from Boxgrove man to the Normans.
Belloc’s Kingdom
A tour or talk based on the Anglo-French Sussex patriot, poet, MP and writer.
Bond’s Sussex
A talk or motorised tour of the county’s links with 007 and his creator, Ian Fleming.
Cold War Sussex
How Sussex featured in the Cold War and what life was like in the county during this era.
Democratic Sussex
Foolish Fellows and Females
A talk exploring foolish behaviour across the centuries – in Sussex or the UK.
Lost Sussex
An exploration of where elements of the county’s past have been lost or forgotten.
Petworth: Sussex’s Versailles
Pevensey: Sussex Stronghold
Royal Sussex
We take you on the tour – virtual or otherwise – we think the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex will take.
Republican Sussex
As a counterbalance to Royal Sussex, we take you on a tour of the Civil War and Republican hotspots of Sussex, as well as the places in Sussex any new monarch should know.
Saxon Sussex
Scrumptious Sussex
Sherlock’s Sussex
A talk or tour on Sussex’s links with Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Silly Sussex
A talk on the daft, bizarre, silly and downright comic elements of Sussex’s past Spooky Sussex/Worthing A spooky tour of the county or one of its leading smuggling towns.
Smugglers’ Sussex
The story of the smugglers of this part of Sussex – their rise and fall in the 1700’s and 1800’s.
Stately Sussex
A talk on Sussex’s great houses.
Super Sussex
A talk based on the latest or all of my history supplements on Sussex for the Argus.
Sussex and Europe With Brexit approaching
A talk on Sussex’s attitude to Europe, the EC, EEC and EU.
Sussex and the Sea
An exploration of Sussex smugglers, shipwrecks and stricken sailors.
The Fascists are coming!
Viking Sussex
The invaders who changed the face of Sussex and Britain and their legacy.
Visitors’ Historic WestSussex
Visitors’ Historic East Sussex/ Brighton and Hove
A perspective on Sussex, based on my forthcoming 2019 book for Pen and Sword.
Washington and Wartime
A history of the little-known Sussex village of Washington in wartime, from the Civil to Cold War.
Washington: West Sussex Wonder
Women of Sussex/Worthing
The tale of the well-and less-well known women from this unusual seaside town – and across the county as a whole.
WW1 Sussex
An exploration of what life was like in the war and how Sussex helped the war effort.
AQA Historic Environment events
Brexit Britain
Conflict, Casualties and Care In WWI
Crime and Punishment tour of Whitechapel/East End
Empire, Migration and Identity c790-2015AD
Historical Environment at GCSE
Medicine Through Time - London
What Is Truly All-Inclusive History?
WWI Battlefields Tour
The historiography of the Holocaust
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