| Description |
241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
England Leisure & recreation Social aspects, 1780-1939 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Leisure -- England.
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Popular culture -- England.
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Popular culture -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
England http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82068148 -- Popular culture
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| Author |
Walton, John K.
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Walvin, James.
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| LC no. |
82062251 |
| ISBN |
071900912X |
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