The British seaside : Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Popular Culture
ISBN-10
0719051703
ISBN-13
9780719051708
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 17th, 2000
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
356 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.70 x 1.30 cms
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This is the first detailed academic cultural study of therise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers anentertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts. -- .
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 detailed academic cultural study of the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers an entertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts.
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