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History on British Television
History on British television explores the production and consumption of factual history programming on British television. The chronological development of Western historiography …
Leisure, Citizenship and Working–Class Men in Britain, 1850–1940
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 …
Women Drinking out in Britain Since the Early Twentieth Century
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 …
Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain
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 …
Songs of Protest, Songs of Love
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 …
Dancing in the English Style
Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. …
Dangerous Amusements
In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the ‘monkey parades’. The …
The British Seaside
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 …
Politics, Performance and Popular Culture
This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. …
Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920–60
Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 1920–60 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the …
Time, work and leisure
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 …
Working-Class Organisations and Popular Tourism, 1840–1970
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 …