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The British Seaside
by Stuart Hylton |
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ISBN Number:
9781445679396
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2018
Publisher:
Amberley Publishing |
For more
than two hundred years, the British public has had a special
relationship with the seaside. It has offered a miracle cure for all
sorts of ailments, a place for an ever-increasing part of the
population to take its leisure, and a battleground for differing
ideas about what was proper in terms of dress and behaviour. In
wartime it became a battleground in a much more real sense, as the
front line in the nation’s defences against invasion.
This book is an illustrated history of that relationship. It tells
of how steamboats, the railways and enterprising landowners opened
up the coast to mass tourism and how holidays with pay made it a
financial possibility; the battles that were waged over what could
be worn on the beach or what saucy seaside postcards could say; the
history of popular seaside entertainments; the Edwardian heyday of
the British seaside and its subsequent decline; its wartime role,
and how inland authorities tried to replicate the seaside experience
with Holidays at Home; and how the modern seasides are fighting back
against their overseas opposition. It will bring back fond memories
for older readers and surprise and amuse many younger ones.
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