Animals, leisure and status: some aspects of pet-keeping in the Middle Ages / John Simons -- Molyneux -- "Munix" the dancing man / Michael Hayes -- Contemporary carnival: Blackpool and the symbolic suspension of real-life / Jill Fernie-Clark -- Policeman on the case: Early chess in Lancashire and the Preston Guardian chess column 1879-83 / Tim Harding -- Identifying the British yachtsman, 1815 to 1939 / Roger Ryan -- "Wonders in nature and art": Reynold's Museum of Curiosity and the Lime Street entertainment industry in Liverpool, 1860-1900 / Vaness Toulmin -- Popular theatre and revolutionary identity: Anarchist and communist culture in Paris, 1900-1934 / The Last Adventurers: a case study of British cinema and the creation of identity in the 1930s / Roger Spalding -- "Doing the right thing": Harry Belafonte as a political and civil rights activist / Kevern Verney
Summary
This wide-ranging collection of essays seeks to challenge the âcommon-senseâ assumption that entertainment activities have no function but to fill up otherwise empty moments. As such it builds on the term â" coined by the Victorians â" âRecreation
