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New Walkie Talkie History Tours With Brighton Author, Rose Collis

By James Ledward
Jun 8, 2011 - 4:21:49 PM
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Rose Collis, the acclaimed Brighton-based writer, journalist, historian, and author of The New Encyclopaedia of Brighton, is launching a new season of her popular ‘Walkie Talkie’ historical tours in early July.

Commencing Saturday July 2, in conjunction with Hudson & Bridges café, 237 Eastern Rd, she will be conducting ‘Kemp Town Tea Tours‘, focusing on the ‘original’ Kemp Town area, and featuring many of its famous ‘plaqued and unplaqued’ personalities from literature, stage, screen, medicine and politics, including Douglas Byng, Sophia Jex-Blake, Lewis Carroll and Lady Victoria Sackville.

In addition, from June 21, she will be hosting ‘Up Your Street’, a regular monthly local history supper club — every third Tuesday in the month — at The Swan, 9 Rock Street, Brighton.
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To coincide with the ‘Radical Bloomsbury’ exhibition at Brighton Museum, the ‘Bloomsbury in Brighton’ tour features many of the personalities in this artistic circle with close links to Brighton, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Edward Le Bas, Walter Sickert and Lady Ottoline Morrell.

In conjunction with the new ‘Alice Dreams’ shop at 40 Middle St, Brighton. www.alicedreams.co.uk

‘Lewis Carroll’s Brighton’ will be a monthly tour, incorporating the many Brighton people and places which featured in the life of Rev. Charles Dodgson, creator of ‘Alice in Wonderland’.

In addition, two brand new ‘Walkie Talkies’ are featured in this year’s CMP Festival in July:  ‘The Kemp Town Walkie Talkie of Fame’, and ‘The Clifton Montpelier Powis Tour — Cultural, Musical and Political’: a new tour of the CMP area, featuring many of its famous former residents, including Gilbert Harding, Robin Maugham, Alan Melville, Eleanor Marx, Dr Octavia Wilberforce plus a suffragette boarding house.

To view:
www.cmpcaonline.org.uk

On Saturday August 6, Rose will be leading a special ‘Pride Promenade’ commissioned by Brighton & Hove Libraries, starting at 2pm by the Peace Statue, with free refreshments and discounted copies of The New Encyclopaedia of Brighton available.

For full details of all tours and booking information, view:
www.rosecollis.com


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