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National and local issues in Politics: a study of East Sussex and Lancashire Spinning Towns, 1906-1910, by Grace A. Jones, 1965 at Sussex University (D. Phil. thesis)

Changes in associational life consequent upon population increase (a dissertation on the village of Newick), by D. M. King, 1966 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

The growth of manufacturing in the Brighton conurbation, 1901-1963, by B. Thompson, 1966 at Sussex University (M.Phil. Thesis)

The influence of demographic change on social provision in selected East Sussex villages, by I. G. Wilkinson, 1966 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

An Analysis of Intra-Urban Retail and Service Activity in the Sussex Coast Conurbation. , by P. J. Ambrose, 1968 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The Gages of Firle 1580-1640: an economic history of a recusant family in Sussex, by S. W. Pearson, 1968 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

The Use of Television in Brighton and East Sussex Schools (1965-1966). , by A. J. Pursaill, 1968 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Chartism in Brighton, by T. M. Kemnitz, 1969 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The West Brighton Estate, Hove, by W. F. Pickering, 1969 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Changing attitudes to the employment of women and children on the land between the 1830s and 1870s, with particular reference to the County of Sussex, by E. M. Ainsworth, 1970 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Association football in Brighton before 1920: a case study in the development of popular recreation, by B. G. Wilkinson, 1971 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

The Poor Law in the area of the Eastbourne and Steyning Poor Law Unions 1790-1840, by D. R. Parker, 1972 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Chartered rights and vested interests: reform era politics in three Sussex boroughs - Rye, Arundel and Lewes, by M. Zimmeck, 1972 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Employment, land tenure and population in eastern Sussex 1549-1640, by C. E. Brent, 1973 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Transport of Sediment in Streams in Sussex, in Relation to Geological and Hydrological Characteristics of Catchments., by M. B. Collins, 1973 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The Social and Spatial Determinants of Recreation Behaviour: A Case Study of the Sunday Car Trips of Car Owning Households in Lewes, East Sussex. , by M. J. Elson, 1973 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Changing farm structure in Surrey and Sussex, by P. Corrigan, 1974 at Sussex University (Doctoral thesis)

Electoral procedures and implementation of the 1870 Education Act in Brighton, 1870-1902, by R. Newbold, 1975 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

An hydrological study of the rainfall-runoff relationship in the Ardingly-Goldbridge catchment, Sussex, by H. A. Ghayoor, 1976 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Firle: selected themes from the social history of a closed Sussex village 1850-1939, by N. J. Griffiths, 1976 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

"A substantial and stirling friend to the labouring man": the Kent and Sussex Labourer's Union, 1895, by B. Felicity Carleton, 1978 at Sussex University (M.Phil. Thesis)

The population of Chichester, 1660-1811, by N. J. Aldridge, 1979 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Poaching and the game laws in East Sussex, 1830-1880, by S. Allen, 1979 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Autoecology and population biology of Plantago coronopus L. at coastal sites in Sussex. , by S. Waite, 1980 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

An analysis of the planning process in 1968-73 in the contexts of the history of the University of Sussex and the management of universities. , by G. Lockwood, 1981 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Aspects of the impact of man on the historical ecology of Ashdown Forest, Sussex before 1885, by J. K. Irons, 1982 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Gender and environment: Reproduction in post war Brighton, by S. D. MacKenzie, 1983 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Slander accusations and social control in late 16th and early 17th century England, with particular reference to Rye (Sussex), 1590-1615. , by A. Gregory, 1984 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Popular music in rural society: Sussex 1815-1914, by V. A. F. Gammon, 1985 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The evolution of Brunswick Town, Hove, 1830-1881, by Michael G. I. Ray, 1987 at Sussex University (M.Phil. Thesis) accessible at: The Keep [BH/H/ACC12702/28]

Forest and waste in seventeenth-century England: the enclosure of Ashdown Forest, 1600-1700, by Linda Merricks, 1989 at Sussex University (D. Phil thesis)

Access to and development of secondary and technical education in Brighton in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by David Alan Stainwright, 1990 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The changing use of land in the Weald region of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, 1919-1939. , by Carol Anne Lockwood, 1991 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Space matters: situating the beach in the history of Brighton, by Elias Georgantas, 1995 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Tourism and the Sussex Downs: an evaluation of the nature, impact and management of tourism on the Sussex Downland., by Bruce E. Osborne, 1995 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Socio-economic life in some East Sussex peasant communities during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. , by David Robert Clarke, 1997 at Sussex University (Ph.D thesis)

Aspects of habitat selection in the sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus in Sussex., by Fotini Papazoglou, 1997 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The ownership, occupation and use of land on the South Downs between the rivers Arun and Adur in West Sussex, c1840-c1940., by John Douglas Godfrey, 1999 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

This thesis reports on a study of land ownership, land occupation and land use in an area of about 100 square miles on the South Downs in Sussex at three points in time. The thesis is based on a study of three principal sets of records, occasionally supplemented by other material. The study area comprises the area covered by 16 contiguous modern parishes between the rivers Arun and Adur. The study covers the period c.1840-1940 and the three principal sets of records examined are the Tithe Surveys of 1834-47, the Valuation Office Survey of 1910-15 and the National Farm Survey of 1941-43. The study, which focuses on medium and large holdings, describes the structure of land ownership, land occupation and land use in the selected area, making use of significant material which has only recently become available and has not previously been studied, and enables trends to be identified relating to such issues as the changing fortunes of landowning families, the balance between owner-occupation and tenant farming, farm size, the balance between pasture and arable, agricultural improvement and the progress and efficiency of measures such as the wartime plough-up campaigns. These trends are discussed in a regional and national context, referring to research undertaken elsewhere and to available national material. The study also identifies problems which may arise from the inter-relating of the three documentary sources, all of which were designed for separate purposes (tithe commutation, taxing of land values, Second World War food production campaign and post-war planning), and it proposes solutions to these problems which may be of value to future researchers.

Partnership in practice: a study of ITE at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton and their partner secondary schools. , by Alison Lodwick, 2000 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Throughout the 1980s increasing attention was paid to the quality of teacher education by the government, culminating in the publication of Circular 9/92 (DFE 1992). It decreed that schools were to play a larger and much more active role than before, as the practical side of the training was to be enhanced at the expense of the educational theory provided by the HEIs. The government believed that encouraging more practical training through a partnership of equals between the HEIs and the schools would improve the professional competence of the NQTs and eventually raise standards in the classroom. An aura of co-operation and consensus pervades the notion of partnership, but this research suggests that the concept is imprecise and open to many different interpretations. It also supports the view that there is a significant difference between the image of partnership projected by the government and the intentions, values and practices of those immediately involved in initial teacher education. The resulting disparity between the rhetoric of policy and the reality of partnership is pinpointed and explained by a critique of the Universities of Sussex and Brighton and twelve of their respective partner secondary schools. This investigation adopts a case study approach. Evidence collected through surveys, interviews and observation of participants within the partnership - such as university tutors, trainees, mentors and professional tutors, together with a review of the contextual literature, are used to illuminate the problems experienced by the practitioners. The evidence presented shows that the success of the partnership and its continued existence in its present form is dependent upon a variety of factors: adequate communication, effective mentorships, clearly-defined assessment and standardisation procedures and the development of a professional ethos to avoid undue reliance on good-will. Major restrictions are also placed upon the delivery of effective initial teacher education by inadequate funds and the shortage of time. More importantly however, the straightforward perception of partnership promoted by the government is in itself seen to be flawed, because there are inherent tensions between the HEIs and the schools. This results in conflicting expectations over key issues, which if unresolved will continue to jeopardise the development of partnership and affect the quality of initial teacher education.

The south coast bubble: the emergence of the moving-image in Brighton before 1914, by Garrett Monaghan, 2000 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The measurement of the erosion of the chalk shore platform of East Sussex, the effect of coastal defence structures and the efficacy of macro scale bioerosive agents, by Claire Elizabeth Andrews, 2001 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The supply and utilisation of vernacular building timber in the rural Sussex Weald 1500-1800. , by Jayne Claudia Kirk, 2001 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Surface crusting of soils from the South Downs in relation to soil erosion, by Jayashree Khanta, 2002 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Net generation, net class or net culture? : uses of the Internet by the young people in Brighton, by Lisa Monique Lee, 2003 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The acquisition and practice of working-class literacy in the nineteenth-century Sussex Weald , by Barbara Janet Allen, 2005 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The ecological impacts of wild boar rooting in East Sussex, by Natasha K. E. Sims, 2006 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The social and economic impact of railway development on the coastal plain communities of Sussex during the nineteenth century , by Anthony Wakeford, 2006 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics of the Sussex Ouse Estuary, UK, by Richard Otway Charman, 2007 at Sussex University (Ph.D thesis)

Conservative women, the Primrose league and public activity in Surrey and Sussex, C. 1880 - 1902 , by Christine Margaret Jesman, 2008 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The failure of Conservative women to openly contest the public space has resulted in their marginalisation within studies of late nineteenth century female social action and this is particularly evident in the limited historiography of women's local government experiences. This thesis explores the neglected role of Conservative women and suggests the existing framework of research. structured around organised m-ban philanthropy and the women's suffrage movement fails to accommodate their contribution. Using a local study, based on grass-roots Conservative political action in the rural south east of England, an alternative approach is adopted; one that interweaves the Primrose League and female local government work to enable the re-writing of Conservative women into narratives of public activity.

Neighbourhood, family and home: the working class experience in mid-twentieth century Brighton , by Benjamin Jones, 2008 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

This thesis focuses on the working class in Brighton in the period c.1920-1970. I argue that despite rising living standards and increasing mobility rates (among men) classes remained culturally and spatially distinct. While working and middle class lifestyles converged somewhat, class differences were maintained and classes themselves reproduced through the uneven accumulation of economic and cultural capital. Foregrounding the analysis of life histories, class processes are seen to work structurally and biographically; shaping life chances and subjectivities. While work is conceived as significant in configuring social trajectories I demonstrate the degree to which occupational experiences intersect with domestic, familial, associative and neighbourhood cultures to mould social identities. I further investigate how class intersects with gender and generation to mediate experience, and evaluate the relationship between experience, discourse and memory in the formation of accounts of the past.

Using a geographical information system as an integrative landscape management tool : a case study of woodland habitat networks in West Sussex, by Sarah Elizabeth Hilda McKenzie, 2008 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Habitat fragmentation as a result of human activity is of growing concern. Direct habitat loss results in small habitat patches separated by an increasingly hostile matrix of arable land. This has implications for species and habitat conservation, which are required under national and international legislation. The study area has two internationally important woodland sites that are separated by arable land and a small number of isolated woodland patches. Habitat networks are one response to the impacts of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity and such approaches are recognised in national and international policy instruments.

Piety in peril: a religiously conservative sixteenth century school of church monuments in Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , by D. R. Hutchinson, 2011 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

During approximately twenty-five years of the early to mid-sixteenth century, a hitherto largely unnoticed series of Caen stone tombs were erected in Sussex and Hampshire churches with designs that emphasized religious imagery. These crudelycarved but high-status monuments displayed the piety of those commemorated and included a transitional mixture of Gothic and Renaissance motifs. Strong circumstantial evidence suggests they were carved by masons in Chichester, employed within a cathedral 'works organisation', who could offer lower transportation costs than those producing Purbeck marble tombs in London and Corfe, Dorset. The tombs satisfied the religiously conservative taste of local patrons with at least 14 tombs being designed as Easter Sepulchres. Later monuments appear incongruous when set against the backdrop of state-inspired change in religious doctrine and were among the last carved in the medieval tradition. As the pace of the Reformation quickened, the iconoclastic policies of the radically Protestant government of Edward VI constricted the masons' operations and probably brought their business to an end around 1550 - despite diversification into secular work. Employing archæological recording techniques and archival research, this project identifies and catalogues, for the first time, the 32 surviving examples of these masons' output, which demonstrate a much greater production rate and wider distribution than previously published. The project also investigates the destruction of the monuments' religious iconography by Protestant reformers, probably in 1548-53, and/or the erasure of devotional motifs by relatives in attempts to protect the tombs from damage. In addition, the project explores issues of patronage, the sources of the masons' designs, their construction methods and places them in the context of tomb production in London and the provinces in the mid-sixteenth century.

Scattered squalor' and 'downland homes' : interwar housing at Patcham, Brighton, by Geoffrey Mead, 2012 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

The Brighton suburb of Patcham is an area which was transforming rapidly into a suburban housing district in the interwar period. An urban fringe area, where the distinction between the various housing areas is largely explained by the differential ownership and sale of the former agricultural land, and the subsequent development as suburban housing under different developers. The factors bringing about the urban expansion, particularly in relation to Brighton and its growing economy are discussed, as is the declining agricultural economy. A variety of suburban housing types emerged, ranging from army huts and architect-designed detached villas in the early post-World War One period, to large corporate housing developments during the 1930s. This period was one where largely uncontrolled building was taking place outside Brighton municipal control, a situation partly resolved by the extension of borough boundaries in the late 1920s, and the social and legislative factors pertinent to urban housing issues and suburban growth are discussed. This pattern of areal difference is readily discernible in the 21st century where the palimpsest of earlier patterns still influences the later building. The economic situation and the various architectural styles of the interwar are reviewed, as is the postwar development of the district which is described to give the post-World War Two context. Suburbs are more complex than is apparent at first consideration and this study aims to unpick the fabric of suburbia through the case study of a selected area of Patcham setting it all in the wider context of local and national issues. The patterns of building that are recorded for Patcham can be seen to operate across Britain in the same period and serve as an exemplar of wider processes.

Middle and Late Bronze Age settlement on the South Downs : the case study of Black Patch, by Richard Quinn Tapper, 2012 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

By integrating the corpus of existing knowledge with new information gained by applying geo-archaeological techniques as well as more traditional techniques to fresh archaeological investigations at Black Patch and elsewhere, the aims of the research are to look at the economy, social organization and ritual behaviour of life in the Middle and Late Bronze Age on the South Downs in the light of modern archaeological theory to consider the questions 'Why were these areas chosen for settlement?', 'What caused their abandonment?' and 'What can we learn about the life of the people associated with the settlements?'. The combination of field walking, field survey and soil sampling has shown the presence of a Neolithic flint spread, woodland clearance and agriculture before and during the period of site settlement at Black Patch. The positioning of the Hut platforms and enclosures across existing lynchets, the modification of the existing field system, the establishment of a new one and the adoption of more intensive farming techniques (manuring, weeding and crop location and rotation) would imply a change of social order and the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle for some. The existence of centrally placed hearths in huts found at Black Patch brings into doubt the existing day/night life/death metaphor currently commonly used for this period. Structured deposition points to a society concerned with agricultural fertility. The abandonment of Black Patch identified by Drewett and the dearth of later dated artefacts, at about the same time as the abandonment of the only other positively identified Deverel-Rimbury site in the immediate area, Itford Hill, suggests another change of social order, with livestock becoming more important as the Downland area around Black Patch appears then to be used only by nomadic herders. Areas to the west of the River Ouse which had been settled earlier developed more complicated specialist production sites. These have yet to be found east of the River Ouse.

The politics of partnership: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, 1912-1961, by Darren Clarke, 2013 at Sussex University (Ph.D thesis)   View Online

This thesis analyses the relationship of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, artists that were central to the visual culture of the Bloomsbury group. The title of this project positions 'partnership' as a connecting force between the two artists, a term I interpret as a series of layers, boundaries, and thresholds that are in a constant state of flux, over-lapping, layering and leaking. By mapping the artists' presence I am able to construct a new model of partnership. Chapter one considers the artists' signing and marking of their work, examining the variations of the signature, tracing its evolution, its presence and its absence, its location on the work and the calligraphy of the mark. By examining the various ways that Bell and Grant had of signing and of not signing their work and the use and function of the mechanically reproduced signature, I demonstrate the uneasy relationship that can occur between objects, names and signatures. Chapter two focuses on the pond at Charleston, the home that the artists shared for almost half a century, which is central to many of the narratives and mythologies of the household and is the subject of many paintings and decorations. I chart how the artists map this space by repeatedly recording it and how the pond acts as a layered topography for the exploration and presentation of gender, queerness and familial relationships. Chapter three continues the process of examining boundaries and layers by exploring the artists' often problematic relationship to clothes and to the delicate threshold between fabric and skin that often loosens and gapes. I cast the artists as agents of disguise and masquerade in which uncertain and unstable boundaries are created. I map the transference of fabric and demonstrate how this textile threshold ruptures, how the body leaks, leaving marks and traces.

The decorative scheme of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton: George IV's design ideas in the context of European colour theory, 1765-1845 , by Alexandra Loske, 2014 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

This thesis investigates the use of colour in the interior decorations of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. The building was created between 1785 and c.1823 by the Prince of Wales (1762 - 1830), later Prince Regent and George IV. The main aims of the thesis are firstly, to analyse the intense colour scheme of the building and set it in the historical context of colour theory and pigment production, and secondly, to establish to what extent personal tastes and fashion influenced these designs. Chapter 1 brings together nineteenth century descriptions of and reactions to the building from early guidebooks and visitors' accounts, followed by brief outlines of restoration work carried out since 1850 and observations on how the building is experienced by visitors today. The aim of Chapter 2 is to provide an overview of colour theory and literature in Europe between c.1765 and c.1845, in order to highlight the cultural, social and scientific background to the use of colour in art and interior design. Chapter 3 outlines the role of key figures involved in the creation of the building. It first discusses the Prince's tastes in art and considers to what extent he may have drawn inspiration from other members of the Royal Family and earlier Oriental buildings and interiors. The chapter then discusses the artists and designers John and Frederick Crace, Robert Jones and Humphry Repton. Chapter 4 describes the colour schemes and chromatic layout of the interior of the building in its various stages from the 1780 to the 1820s. The chapter includes a case study of the conspicuous and varied use of silver as a colour in the building, discussed in the context of the use of silver in other European interiors. Three appendices provide detailed information of colour terms found in contemporary account books, pigments identified in the Royal Pavilion so far, their historical context and where they are found in the interiors. The thesis thus analyses the multi-sensory experience of an interior in relation to new ideas about colour as a crucial element of interior design.

Work and sociality in Brighton's new media industry, by Eleftherios Zenerian, 2014 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

This study explores the relationships that form among practitioners in the new media industry - focussing on a particular locale, Brighton, UK. An aim is to understand the meanings that work and peer relationships have for practitioners. Another is to explore how peer relationships affect practitioners' careers. Through the use of qualitative methods - semi-structured and unstructured interviews, and ethnographic observation - the research highlights the importance of locality and of interaction in shaping the meanings and practices around work and sociality in the new media industry. Drawing on Bourdieu's ideas on field, habitus and capital it is suggested that the meanings practitioners attach to work are reflected in the aspirations inscribed in their habitus and the position they occupy within a geographically specific new media field. It is also suggested that social relationships among peers are constructed through interaction within Brighton's new media community where personal biographies, industrial and local cultures structure and reproduce each other. The importance of interpreting practices within intersections of fields, in which people are embedded, is also emphasised. Drawing on Goffman's ideas on the social organisation of co-presence, the logic of the new media field and the strategies that practitioners utilise - which are reflected in the ways practitioners manage their personal preserves inside a co-working organisation - is described. How career opportunities differ based on the position people occupy in the industry and how the use of different types of capitals effect career changes is also demonstrated. This study contributes to the research literature on the clustering of new media industries, to research looking at work and employment in the new media industry and, finally, to the literature on the networking practices of new media practitioners.

Unveiling climate change at Pevensey Levels: a photographic documentation of a landscape in the temperate climate of Southern England, by Sally Bream, 2016 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Communicating in the local: digital communications technology use in Brighton's gay pub scene, by Alan D'Aiello, 2016 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

This thesis is an analysis of the use and impact of digital communication technology (DCT) in the Gay pub scene in the Kemptown neighborhood of Brighton, East Sussex, UK. The purpose of this work is twofold: to create a snapshot record of the everyday activities in pub spaces at a particular point in the neighborhood's history from the point of view of an American gay man, and to develop an understanding of the impact of digital communications technology (DCT) on the activities in these spaces by investigating the impact of DCT on the idea of 'gay space'. This analysis is broken down into three distinct areas of enquiry: the implementation of DCT in pub spaces by the landlords/owners of the space, the use of DCT by the patrons of these spaces, and an analysis of those spaces that have not directly engaged DCT, neither implementing DCT as a feature of the location, nor limiting its use within the space. This thesis utilizes participant observations, auto ethnographic observations, and interviews made over a period of two years and engages with the theoretical arguments around gay space: its history both within the broad context of UK history, and also with Brighton's special historical status as a gay centre within the UK; its current uses; and the potential for its evolution. This investigation of hof DCT is impacting on gay space also questions to what extent 'gay space' is maintaining a sense of physicality and to what extent an extension of DCT-enabled virtual spaces is altering our relationship to these spaces. The work examines the notion of nostalgia, ownership, and control of space and attempts through its focus on several locations in Kemptown to catalogue the many changes in structure, clientele, locale, and business success that these spaces have gone through in a fairly short time and to determine to what extent the use and influences of DCT has driven these changes. The project includes interviews with landlords and patrons of eight current and former venues in Kemptown and encompasses a group of three key participants in detail through a series of scheduled interviews and group discussions conducted during the duration of the project, and details their particular relationships to the spaces in Kemptown as well as their uses of DCT in these spaces. These participants act as a focal point for the research by helping to create a frame of reference within the work balancing the author's auto ethnographic analysis with the point of view of a local Brighton gay male, as well as contribute to and support the broader narrative of the vicissitudes of smaller pub venues by helping to highlight the historical changes in the pubs being looked at. The specific questions that this research sets out to answer are:

• How is digital communicative technology (DCT) affecting self defined gay spaces in Kemptown, Brighton?
• How is DCT affecting the behaviours of the patrons and owners/operators in these spaces?
• How are the owners/operators of these spaces adapting to DCT?
• Is there evidence of owners/operators conforming to Winston's theory on the suppression of disruptive potential of new and emerging media technology (1995)?
• What are the implications, challenges and opportunities presented to those spaces which are not engaging with DCT in their spaces?
• Are "gay spaces" in Kemptown still relevant with the intersection of digital and physical spaces?
• Do these spaces meet the same requirements as they have in the past?
• Does DCT have the ability on its own to maintain the relevance of a venue on its own when faced off against other pressures (such as commercial or demographic pressure)?

The conclusions reached in this thesis draw attention to the potential for DCT:

• Acting as a form of disruptive potential of new communication technologies (Winston, 1995).
• The concerns that DCT is suppressing interpersonal communications in favor of mediated discourse (Turkle, 2011, 2012, 2015).
• That automobility is creating a privatization of pub spaces, along with the creation of 'non-places' (Bull, 2004)

However, in the author's analysis, there is evidence of cohabitation, and adaptation towards DCT which is reminiscent of Winston's theory of the suppression of disruptive potential of emerging communication technology, as well as a resistance response with nostalgic overtones. The conclusions are also grounded in the larger narratives of pub culture within the UK and note the challenging culture that smaller, brewer-tied and non-tied gay venues have within these changing demographics and cultural acceptance of homosexuality in general. This research adds to the broader field of research into the adaptation of communications technology by drawing attention to the effects of DCT on both spaces and their users and also highlights their effects on a subculture.