Victorian Bournemouth (229) explored the wide range of topics addressed through lectures and debates. Lectures typically offered gentle, didactic discussions, sometimes touching on politics and current affairs that could spark passionate views. Debates aimed to provoke active engagement with contemporary issues. This approach enriched Bournemouth’s culture by addressing subjects of both academic and current relevance.
Victorian Bournemouth (228) has suggested that marketing myopia contributed to the local Oxford University Extension scheme’s failing to achieve commercial success. The lecturers, motivated by their belief that educational success should not rely on ‘mere material benefits,’ failed to recognise that their commercial opportunity lay in providing afternoon entertainment to respectable individuals. Embracing this perspective could have alleviated financial constraints. The education sought by working people to improve their conditions presented a different marketing challenge better comprehended by others.
Protect. Promenade. Progress. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (102) explores how affluent people used certain entertainment forms to obtain different objectives. Their applications appear to correspond with different places on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This psychological framework categorises human motivation to fulfil basic to extended needs. The needs identified here appear in three of Maslow’s hierarchical levels: […]