The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century

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.

Author: John K. Walton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 08/17/2000
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780719051708

About the Author
John K. Walton is Professor of Social History at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.