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Both Marx and Engels loved Eastbourne, and Josef Engels wrote his part of the Communist Manifesto whilst staying there. Engels ashes were scattered off Beachy Head by Marx's wife Eleanor.
It's official - Margate is creative
The Sharpie Index of the UK’s Top 20 Creative Towns set out to measure the creativity of town and city dwellers themselves, as well as the outputs of the creative industries and businesses in each town.
Experts such as Dr Kevin Stolarick (senior research partner, the Creative Class Group), Dr David Bell (human geographer, Leeds University), Dr Charles Rolfe (human geographer, Bristol University) and Hasan Bakhshi, (senior policy analyst and creative industries expert, policy and research unit, NESTA), are just some of the experts on the panel used by Future Laboratory researchers to validate and contextualise towns on the list. These experts helped to identify where creativity levels were more embedded in the fabric of a town’s community
than within its official institutions.
Brighton came in at number 5 on the list, with Oxford at no16 and Margate at no. 19. To read the whole report, please click here