BRIGHTON is known around the UK as a liberal city which has played an instrumental role in fighting for equal rights and democracy over the years.

During the 1980s and 1990s, our city played host to a variety of protests over issues ranging from animal rights, to LGBT rights and child protection.

Just before Brighton Aquarium became known as the Sealife Centre in 1991, there were a number of protests held there about the use of dolphins for entertainment and animal cruelty issues.

Do you recognise any of the people pictured above at the dolphin protest in 1988 or the one in 1990?

Perhaps you remember visiting the aquarium during this period and if so did you notice anything odd about the way the dolphins and other animals were treated?

A national campaign was launched in 1991 called Into the Blue, in which animal welfare groups campaigned together to close the UK’s remaining dolphinariums.

Do you agree that dolphins shouldn’t have been kept at the aquarium and are you glad the change was made?

Peace protesters staged a demonstration outside Brighton Hotel Metropole in 1985 after the hotel had let some guests stay.

Can you remember exactly what the protest was about or do you know who was allowed to stay at the hotel that the protesters disagreed with?

The posters refer to children dying of hunger and one placard blames the hotel for allowing so-called “merchants of death” to stay there.

In 1984, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Brighton during a year when miners’ strikes were rampant, to take issue with workers’ rights and the lack of jobs.

Do you remember anyone involved in the May Day protest?