Little Big Ideas By The Sea September 19th 2026

 

2026 marks Scarborough 400, four hundred years since Thomasin Farrer's 1626 discovery of mineral springs beneath the cliffs turned Scarborough into Britain's first seaside resort. As part of the Scarborough 400 celebrations, Little Big Ideas By The Sea will explore the heritage of the town, starting with The Vicar's Tour of South Cliff, at 10am at St Martin on the Hill.

 

Little Big ideas By The Sea continues in the afternoon at at 3pm in St Mary's Church with three talks on Scarborough's history, from Georgian spa culture to Victorian photography to the results of the community archaeological dig in Paradise between 2022 and 2026.

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Big Ideas By the Sea will return in May 2027.

Between Saturday 15th May and Sunday 30th May the festival will bring a host of events to entertain and inform audiences from Scarborough and beyond.

 

Events will take place across Scarborough in St Mary’s Church, St Martin-On-The-Hill,

Scarborough Castle, Scarborough Library, the Old Parcels Office Artspace, The Grand Hotel,

the Shakespeare Gallery and other venues to be announced.

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The Scarborough Big Dig, nominated for Community Archaeology Project of the Year in 2025, will once again bring school children and adults to Paradise where they will have a unique hands-on experience of working on an archaeological dig.  Come along and ask us what we have found!​

FULL DETAILS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2027
Join us and make Big Ideas By The Sea 2027 bigger and better than ever!