Event: Annebella Pollen – Brutal Brighton Valentines | 6-7pm 20 February 2025 at Brighton West Pier Centre

Annebella Pollen’s talk showcases the vicious and sometimes violent Victorian examples of Valentine Cards that were sold and sent in Brighton and beyond.

In the mid-nineteenth century, valentine cards were bought and sent by the million. They were available in hundreds of different designs to cover a vast array of emotions. How about a valentine for your enemy? Your hated boss? Your annoying neighbour? Your despised ex? Victorian valentines included them all.

Annebella Pollen is Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, where she researches the lives and afterlives of images and objects.

This will be at Brighton’s West Pier Centre Kings Road Arches Brighton BN1 2FL

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