Stories
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
- In pictures
Backstroke to the future
Now one of the most popular forms of exercise, the health-giving properties of swimming have not always been recognised. Dive into a gallery that charts the course from water as site of danger to a space of health.
- Article
Little feet on Pett Level Beach
Poet and author Penny Pepper has vivid memories of childhood beach trips when her father was still alive, enthusiastically encouraging her curiosity and love of nature.
- Article
Cataloguing Audrey
Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Seaside (artwork)
Date: 1940sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/2/2/1Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Seaside with black water (artwork)
Date: c.1989Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/6/6Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
Seaside studies in natural history / Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz and Alexander Agassiz. Marine animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates.
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907.Date: 1865- Books
Seaside resorts in Humberside / written, researched and compiled by David Cookson for the Local History Archives Unit, Humberside College of Higher Education.
Cookson, David.Date: [1987], ©1987
- Pictures
- Online
Seaside grape (Coccoloba uvifera): fruiting stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 1 July 1801Reference: 25389i
