Local History Section Spring Symposium 2015

Wish you were here! From holy days to holidays

Date: Saturday, 28th March 2015
Venue: The Cinema, 4th floor, Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester

Progamme

Simon Sandall, Introduction: From Holy Days to holidays

Dustin Neighbout, The Progresses of Elizabeth I in Hampshire

Mary South, ‘The Water’s Lovely’: Southampton as a Spa Town

Richard Smout, ‘I do like to be beside the seaside!’ Sources for the history of Tourism on the Isle of Wight, 1700-1950

Jean Marsh, ‘A Delightful Watering-Place.’ Bournemouth’s Development as a Resort in the Nineteenth Century