Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939
By: John K. Walton, James Walvin, editors.
Contributors: Walton, John K.; Walvin, James.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Manchester Univ Pr
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Manchester [Greater Manchester]; Dover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Popular culture -- England; Leisure -- England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "The oddest combination of town and country" : popular culture and the London fairs, 1800-60 / Mark Judd; title: The cinema and cinema-going in Birmingham in the 1930s / Jeffrey Richards; title: The performing arts in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1840-70 / Kathleen Barker; title: Oldham wakes / Robert Poole; title: Popular musical culture and popular politics in the Yorkshire textile districts, 1880-1914 / Dave Russell; title: Crewe, leisure in a railway town / Allan Redfern; title: The corporation as impresario : the municipal provision of entertainment in Victorian and Edwardian Bournemouth / Richard Roberts; title: Municipal government and the holiday industry in Blackpool, 1876-1914 / John K. Walton; title: Victorian and Edwardian Ilfracombe / F.B. May; title: Reading in the working-class home / David Vincent; title: Children's pleasures / James Walvin.