We all live somewhere! This class will look at a wide variety of housing, for example - how vernacular styles change across a landscape, or how housing changes over time, as well as looking at issues of landownership and wider social change. 

Using PowerPoint discussions and class contributions we will bring in local factors and local examples of housing.

Class on 30th January will be replaced by a weekend field visit

An Associate Tutor with the Geography team at the University of Sussex from where I thought I had retired...10 years ago! I specialise in the landscapes of SE England, in both urban and rural areas and I did my doctorate in the suburban growth of the interwar period. I taught adult education for nearly 30 years at Sussex where I worked in the Landscape Studies degree team and was Convenor for Local History. I give talks across SE England to a wide range of groups, from universities to local history societies, WI groups , U3A, Probus and Round Tables. I teach also for the Workers Educational Association and run weekly classes at local community centres. The most requested from my range of talks are those that combine social history, geography, geology and a 'sense of place'.