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Mary Ann Gilbert was born into the wealthy and prominent Gilbert family in 1776. At the age of 6 she lost her father and when her mother passed away in […]

Paul Robeson, the legendary black American socialist, singer and film star Paul Robeson performed in the town in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s. Find out more in this article

Who was Friedrich Engels? Among other things, Friedrich Engels was one of the most remarkable figures to have ever lived in Eastbourne in Sussex, and since 2020 was the bicentenary

What is the connection between Eastbourne and Eleanor Marx (the youngest daughter of Karl Marx)? Answer. On August 27th 1895, on a very stormy day, four set off in a

George Meek (1868–1921) was a real life, Eastbourne version of Frank Owen, the working-class hero of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists written by Robert Tressell from 1906 to 1910 in Hastings,