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Dr George Sheeran – Golden Age of Yorkshire Resorts (1800-1914)
Saturday, 11th May @ 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm
Hunmanby-based historian Dr George Sheeran makes the short journey to Filey to talk about his latest book: The Golden Age of Yorkshire Resorts.
Many visitors before 1900 came from the upper echelons of society, whether aristocracy or commercial and industrial magnates.
But some Yorkshire resorts also catered for an international clientele – the French royal family had visited Scarborough, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse stayed at Filey, while the Maharajah of Cooch Behar took a suite at the Hotel Metropole in Whitby.
George takes an in-depth look at the wealth and lifestyles of high-class visitors to the Yorkshire coast and including their houses, luxury hotels, leisure and activities.
George is Honorary Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford.
His areas of interest and expertise are in urban and architectural history on which he has published widely.
His books include Medieval Yorkshire Towns (1999) and Brass Castles: the West Yorkshire New Rich and their Houses1800-1914 (2006).
