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Autumn 2024 – the final SBS newsletter with details of the online exhibition, an SBS film & thanks to everyone

Late summer 2024 – September events, SBS pop up exhibitions; talks; Tasters, Re-Imagining & Re-Making workshops

Summer 24 – Costume archive training, Re-Imagining, Re-Making workshops, updates, events & favourite discoveries from the archives.

Spring 24 – FREE activites, events & additional funding; archive visits & update – the bloomer backlash, Sussex Suffragists & the Great Pilgrimage

Winter 23 – Early ladies cycling clubs, indispensible hair pins, Blazing Saddles performances in Worthing & Bexhill & a Taster workshop in Newhaven for Heritage Open Days; & how to get involved

Summer 2023 – forthcoming events & workshops for Heritage Open Days; 1890s fashion inventions, innovations & national sensations & opportunities to get involved

Tessie Reynolds posing, as if riding a mans racing bike, with drop handlebars and high crossbar in 1893. She's wearing a rational outfit of a fitted jacket with leg o muffin sleeves, finishing at her thighs, short trousers or knickerbockers and black stockings. On her head a low, black hat with brim. The background has a pink bicycle saddle in a blue background with Sussex Blazing Saddles written to the right

Our First Newsletter, June 2023 – introducing the SBS logo & project; archive research discoveries – the first Brighton ladies cycling club & Skirts vs Knickerbockers – project news & events

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