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Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain / edited by Brett Bebber.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)Publisher: Manchester, U.K. ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press, 2012Description: xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 071908704X
  • 9780719087042
Other title:
  • Leisure and cultural conflict in 20th-century Britain
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 790.10941 23
LOC classification:
  • GV75 .L47 2012
Contents:
Introduction: contextualising leisure history / Brett Bebber -- "What shall we do with them when they're not working?": leisure and historians in Britain / Jeffrey Hill -- Dancing in the English style: professionalisation, public preference and the evolution of popular dancing in Britain in the 1920s / Allison Abra -- Going to the cinema: mass commercial leisure and working-class cultures in 1930s Britain / Brad Beaven -- Selling the circus: Englishness, circus fans and democracy in Britain, 1920-45 / Sandra Trudgen Dawson -- The western and British identity on British television in the 1950s / Kelly Boyd -- "The misuse of leisure": football violence, politics and family values in 1970s Britain / Brett Bebber -- Permissive claptrap: cannabis law and the legacy of the 1960s / Chad Martin -- Women and leisure in Britain: a socio-historical approach to twentieth-century trends / Cécile Doustaly.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: contextualising leisure history / Brett Bebber -- "What shall we do with them when they're not working?": leisure and historians in Britain / Jeffrey Hill -- Dancing in the English style: professionalisation, public preference and the evolution of popular dancing in Britain in the 1920s / Allison Abra -- Going to the cinema: mass commercial leisure and working-class cultures in 1930s Britain / Brad Beaven -- Selling the circus: Englishness, circus fans and democracy in Britain, 1920-45 / Sandra Trudgen Dawson -- The western and British identity on British television in the 1950s / Kelly Boyd -- "The misuse of leisure": football violence, politics and family values in 1970s Britain / Brett Bebber -- Permissive claptrap: cannabis law and the legacy of the 1960s / Chad Martin -- Women and leisure in Britain: a socio-historical approach to twentieth-century trends / Cécile Doustaly.

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