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Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939 /

Title
Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939 / John K. Walton, James Walvin, editors.
Publication
Manchester [Greater Manchester] ; Dover, N.H. : Manchester University Press, c1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Walton, John K.
  • Walvin, James.
Description
241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Leisure > England
  • Popular culture > England
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
"The oddest combination of town and country" : popular culture and the London fairs, 1800-60 / Mark Judd -- The cinema and cinema-going in Birmingham in the 1930s / Jeffrey Richards -- The performing arts in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1840-70 / Kathleen Barker -- Oldham wakes / Robert Poole -- Popular musical culture and popular politics in the Yorkshire textile districts, 1880-1914 / Dave Russell -- Crewe, leisure in a railway town / Allan Redfern -- The corporation as impresario : the municipal provision of entertainment in Victorian and Edwardian Bournemouth / Richard Roberts -- Municipal government and the holiday industry in Blackpool, 1876-1914 / John K. Walton -- Victorian and Edwardian Ilfracombe / F.B. May -- Reading in the working-class home / David Vincent -- Children's pleasures / James Walvin.
ISBN
071900912X
LCCN
82062251
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library