Leisure and Welfare in Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War

Robert Snape is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Bolton, UK. He has taught leisure studies and leisure history in UK Higher Education institutions for over thirty years. From 2001 to 2007, Robert was the Secretary of the Leisure Studies Association and from 2013 to 2017, Chair of the Association. He has published extensively in the history of leisure.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Re-invention of Leisure in Nineteenth-century Britain.- 3. The Theorisation and Organisation of Leisure: The New Liberalism and Social Ethics.- 4. Leisure, Community and Welfare: Social Reconstruction in Interwar Britain.- 5. The Consumption of Leisure in Post-First World War Britain.- 6. Leisure in the Social Service State.- 7. The Retreat of the State.