Title: Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure (Studies in Popular Culture MUP) (1st Edition)
Author: Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Format: Hardcover (1st Edition)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719080715
Language: English
Pages: 264
Dimensions: 24 x 16 cm
Publication Date: 2011
Genre: Social History, Cultural Studies
Condition: Good
Description:
Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure explores the rise of Warner and Butlin’s holiday camps, which transformed leisure culture from the 1930s onwards. Sandra Trudgen Dawson traces how these camps shaped working-class recreation, popular entertainment, and ideas of national identity in the post-war era. Drawing from government documents, trade journals, advertising, oral histories, films, and songs, this detailed study situates holiday camps at the heart of Britain’s political, social, and cultural history. Both scholarly and accessible, it will appeal to academics, students, and enthusiasts of British social history and tourism.
Title: Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure (Studies in Popular Culture MUP) (1st Edition)
Author: Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Format: Hardcover (1st Edition)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719080715
Language: English
Pages: 264
Dimensions: 24 x 16 cm
Publication Date: 2011
Genre: Social History, Cultural Studies
Condition: Good
Description:
Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure explores the rise of Warner and Butlin’s holiday camps, which transformed leisure culture from the 1930s onwards. Sandra Trudgen Dawson traces how these camps shaped working-class recreation, popular entertainment, and ideas of national identity in the post-war era. Drawing from government documents, trade journals, advertising, oral histories, films, and songs, this detailed study situates holiday camps at the heart of Britain’s political, social, and cultural history. Both scholarly and accessible, it will appeal to academics, students, and enthusiasts of British social history and tourism.
