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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NX543 .L45 1983 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- 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
- OCLC
- ocm09111744
- SCSB-9122011
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library