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Recorded as the tiny fishing village of Brithelmeston in the
Domesday Book, BRIGHTON seems to have slipped unnoticed through history
until the mid-eighteenth-century sea-bathing trend established a resort
that has never looked back. The fad received royal approval in the 1770s
when the decadent Prince Regent, later George IV, began patronizing the
town in the company of his mistress, thus setting a precedent for the "dirty
weekend", Brighton's major contribution to the English collective
consciousness. Trying to shake off this blowsy reputation, Brighton now
highlights its Georgian charm, its upmarket shops and classy restaurants
and its thriving conference industry. Yet, however much Brighton tries
to present itself as a comfortable middle-class town, the essence of its
appeal is its faintly bohemian vitality, a buzz that comes from a mix of
English holiday-makers, thousands of young foreign students from the
town's innumerable language schools, a thriving gay community and an
energetic local student population from the art college and two
universities.
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