History & Heritage · 3 min read
Inside the Ruins of Portslade Manor
Interpret the surviving remains as evidence for elite domestic life and changing medieval lordship.
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THE ARCHIVE
The complete city collection
History, neighbourhoods, civic explainers and environmental stories — independently researched and organised for unhurried reading.
History & Heritage · 3 min read
Brighton’s First World War Home Front
Connect recruitment, hospitals, rationing, women’s work, casualties and remembrance across the borough.
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Saxon Graves Beneath the Modern City
Review cemetery discoveries and grave goods that illuminate early medieval settlement along the coastal plain.
Read the storyCivic Life · 3 min read
A City Where Most Residents Report No Religion
Explore the 2021 census result while explaining that the voluntary question measures self-identification, not belief or practice.
Read the storyCoast & Environment · 3 min read
Hove’s New Groyne Field: The 2026 Coastal-Protection Scheme
Describe the engineering purpose, construction programme and expected role of new defences without overstating certainty.
Read the storyTransport & Infrastructure · 3 min read
Brighton & Hove by Rail: Eight Stations and Their Usage
Use official station estimates to compare the city’s rail gateways while explaining the limits of usage data.
Read the storyCivic Life · 3 min read
Think Carer: The 2026 Direction for Unpaid-Carer Support
Explain how the city’s emerging approach seeks to identify, involve and support unpaid carers across services.
Read the storyCivic Life · 3 min read
The Ward Map: How Local Representation Is Organised
Show how wards, councillors and electoral boundaries structure neighbourhood representation across the city.
Read the storyNeighbourhoods · 3 min read
Coldean: A Post-war Neighbourhood in a Downland Valley
Examine planning, housing types and the relationship between the estate and its landscape setting.
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How Portslade Old Village Took Shape
Read roads, plots, flint walls and historic buildings as a record of gradual village development.
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Mass-Observation Looks at Brighton
Use the 1938 survey to explore class, religion, leisure, unemployment and everyday behaviour before the war.
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What the City’s Oldest Place Names Mean
Trace the linguistic roots of Brighthelmstone, Hove, Portslade, Patcham, Ovingdean and neighbouring settlements.
Read the storyCivic Life · 3 min read
Measuring LGBQ+ and TNBI Communities: Why Census and Health Counts Differ
Compare population questions, samples and terminology so differing estimates are not presented as contradictions.
Read the storyCoast & Environment · 3 min read
Storm Goretti, Shingle Movement and How the Beach Is Recovered
Use the January storm response to explain beach recycling, shingle profiles and operational coastal maintenance.
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Rail Reliability and Accessibility: Reading Official Performance Data
Show how punctuality, cancellations and station-accessibility information can be assessed without anecdotal overreach.
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Ageing Well: Dementia, Loneliness and Independent Living
Connect demographic change with prevention, accessible neighbourhoods, community support and dementia-friendly services.
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Mayor, Council Leader and Chief Executive: Three Different Jobs
Distinguish the city’s ceremonial, political and administrative leadership roles without confusing their powers.
Read the storyNeighbourhoods · 3 min read
Queen’s Park From Private Venture to Public Park
Trace the landscape’s intended residential role, municipal acquisition and influence on surrounding streets.
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From Village to Portslade-by-Sea
Explain how coastal settlement and suburban streets created a second, markedly different Portslade.
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Air Raids and Civil Defence in Brighton
Map bombing, shelters, emergency services, evacuation and civilian experience during the Second World War.
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Brighton, Hove and Portslade in Domesday Book
Compare the settlements, landholders, resources and values recorded shortly after the Norman Conquest.
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One-Person Households and Living Alone
Examine age, housing and wellbeing implications without assuming that living alone is the same as loneliness.
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Maintaining 13 Kilometres of Seafront: The 2026 Programme
Survey the public engineering, inspection and repair challenge across the city’s coastal infrastructure.
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Walking and Wheeling: The Missing Half of Active Travel
Examine how crossings, gradients, surfaces and continuous routes determine whether short journeys are genuinely accessible.
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