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British seaside
Holidays and resorts in the twentieth century
Häftad, 2000
382 kr
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The annual seaside holiday became a common experience in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and it has a central place in popular memory. Its recent decline has prompted nostalgia and gloom across the media, with a spate of newspaper features every summer bemoaning its decline. This is the first …
Looking North
Northern England and the national imagination
Häftad, 2004
371 kr
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Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the …
Smoking in British popular culture 1800–2000
Häftad, 2000
374 kr
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A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day.. Provides the historical backdrop to the current debates about the politics of tobacco and health, demonstrating that both pro- and anti-smokers have consistently failed to understand the …
Women Drinking out in Britain Since the Early Twentieth Century
Av David Gutzke
Inbunden, 2013
1263 kr
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Given recent media coverage of women’s drinking habits, it is surprising that a topic of such interest has not produced a comprehensive examination. This book provides not just a survey spanning a century of momentous change, but integrates diverse sources with concepts to offer a new understanding …
Women Drinking out in Britain Since the Early Twentieth Century
Av David Gutzke
Häftad, 2015
456 kr
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Given recent media coverage of women’s drinking habits, it is surprising that a topic of such interest has not produced a comprehensive examination. This book provides not just a survey spanning a century of momentous change, but integrates diverse sources with concepts to offer a new understanding …
Women's leisure in England 1920–60
Häftad, 2000
382 kr
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This insightful book offers a timely assessment of the complex relationship between women and leisure in England, drawing upon recent feminist theory. Departing from approaches which focus on particular activities or institutions, it places everyday experiences at its centre, presenting a …
Railways and culture in Britain
The epitome of modernity
Av Ian Carter
Häftad, 2001
418 kr
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The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society.Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway …
Leisure, citizenship and working–class men in Britain, 1850–1940
Av Brad Beaven
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of …
Scotland and the music hall, 1850–1914
Av Paul Maloney
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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Music hall reflected the lifestyles and preoccupations of working people in a way that only television in the modern era has done since. While London dominated the wider British music hall, Glasgow was the centre of a vigorous Scottish performing culture developed in a Presbyterian society with a …
British Railway Enthusiasm
Av Ian Carter
Häftad, 2014
374 kr
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Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the post-war train spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways, and for many, ignited a lifetime’s interest. British railway enthusiasm traces …
Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 1840–1970
Av Susan Barton
Inbunden, 2005
1166 kr
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Today, many people take the idea of holidays for granted and regard the provision of paid time off as a right. This book argues that popular tourism has its roots in collective organisation and charts the development of the working class holiday over two centuries. Starting with the cult of St. …
Working-class organisations and popular tourism, 1840–1970
Av Susan Barton
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Today, many people take the idea of holidays for granted and regard the provision of paid time off as a right. This book argues that popular tourism has its roots in collective organisation and charts the development of the working class holiday over two centuries. Starting with the cult of St. …
From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen
A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896
Inbunden, 2007
1166 kr
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Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening by the Lumière Brothers’ at London’s Regent Street …
From silent screen to multi-screen
A history of cinema exhibition in Britain since 1896
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening by the Lumière Brothers’ at London’s Regent Street …
Cricket and Broadcasting
Inbunden, 2011
1188 kr
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Cricket and broadcasting explores how the significance of radio and television to cricket in England has grown since the beginnings of broadcasting. Since the Second World War cricket has been increasingly shaped by its relationship with broadcasting which has been a force for conservatism and …
Christmas in Nineteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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Despite its enduring popularity as a national festival, Christmas has been largely neglected by English historians. Neil Armstrong offers the first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This …
Amateur Film
Meaning and Practice c. 1927–77
Inbunden, 2012
1123 kr
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Amateur film: Meaning and practice 1927–77 plunges readers into the world of home movies making and reveals that behind popular perceptions of clichéd family scenes shakily shot at home or by the sea, there is much more to discover. Exploring who, how, where, when and why amateur enthusiasts made …
Darts in England, 1900–39
A Social History
Inbunden, 2009
1166 kr
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Drawing on an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources Chaplin examines the development of darts in the context of English society in the early twentieth century.He reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just …
Healthy Living in the Alps
The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860–1914
Av Susan Barton
Inbunden, 2008
1156 kr
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Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism.The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and …
Songs of Protest, Songs of Love
Popular Ballads in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Av Robin Ganev
Inbunden, 2009
1263 kr
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Songs of Protest, Songs of Love shows how songs can bring back voices from the past in a new way. The focus of the book is on rural Britain in a time of crisis. As the traditional rights of peasants were being jettisoned to enforce a new system of enclosure, rural labourers chanted out their …
BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922–53
Inbunden, 2010
810 kr
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Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British. …
Popular Culture and Working–Class Taste in Britain, 1930–39
A Round of Cheap Diversions?
Av Robert James
Inbunden, 2010
1166 kr
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This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working classes, Robert James’ landmark study combines rigorous historical analysis with a close textual reading of visual and written sources to appraise the role …
Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain
Packaging Pleasure
Inbunden, 2011
1236 kr
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This book is the story of two holiday camp chains established in the 1930s that provided thousands with packaged pleasure. Warner and Butlin’s commercial camps emerged at the intersection of cultural shifts that politicised working-class leisure and consumption. Entertainment fostered in the …
History on British Television
Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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History on British television explores the production and consumption of factual history programming on British television. The chronological development of Western historiography is compared to phases of British television history production, highlighting how progressive developments in social and …
Food Companions
Cinema and Consumption in Wartime Britain, 1939–45
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government …
Juke box Britain
Americanisation and youth culture, 1945–60
Av Adrian Horn
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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British teenagers witnessed immense cultural change in the period following the second world war. There were fewer than 100 juke boxes in Britain in 1945 and over 15,000 by 1958. Over the same period there was a similar unprecedented expansion of casual youth venues in the form of cafés, snack, …
Time, work and leisure
Life changes in England since 1700
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It …
Leisure and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth-Century Britain
Av Brett Bebber
Inbunden, 2012
1295 kr
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This collection of essays addresses research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women’s …
Darts in England, 1900–39
A social history
Häftad, 2012
374 kr
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Drawing on an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources Chaplin examines the development of darts in the context of English society in the early twentieth century.He reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just …
Experience of Suburban Modernity
How Private Transport Changed Interwar London
Av Michael Law
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private transport and new mobilities. Wealthier …
