WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/....01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5 and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/....podcast/all-the-year US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ We do like to be beside the seaside – but how did the seaside change throughout the nineteenth century? What exactly did people like (and dislike) about it’s changing face, and how much of the nineteenth-century seaside is still visible today? Join us as we explore the nineteenth-century seaside, from donkeys to dippers and fairgrounds to fossil hunters! KEY SOURCES:Delgado, Alan, Victorian Entertainment (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971)Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki and John Plunkett, ‘Science at the Seaside’ in Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge ed. Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom and Jos Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) p.181-284Johnson, Rachael, ‘The Venus of Margate: Fashion and Disease at the Seaside’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.4 (2017)