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The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 (Paperback)
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The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 (Paperback)
Series: Modern Economic and Social History
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The seaside has always held a special position in British history
as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200
years many have made their way to the coast, attracted by the long
sunshine hours, the clean ozone-charged air and the opportunities
for bathing in and even drinking sea-water. Although the early
health resort ideal began to give way to more pleasure orientated
themes in the nineteenth century, the seaside holiday was still
regarded by many as a wholesome and invigorating break from inland
urban life well into the twentieth century. Yet with ever
increasing numbers of visitors and rising levels of coastal
pollution, this was by no means a forgone conclusion. The Seaside,
Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 explores
the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented
themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular
leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination.
Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new
obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning
were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern
image of the resort holiday. For these and other reasons the
seaside holiday reached new peaks of popularity in the 1930s and
1950s, yet, this very success placed enormous pressures on the
environmental amenities that people came to enjoy. As this work
shows, environmental stresses were manifold, particularly pollution
of the resorts' prime assets, their beaches. As such, serious
questions are raised concerning why it took such a long time for a
determined effort to be made to reverse beach pollution, and the
lessons to be learned regarding the impact of negative images of
the coast as a zone of danger and infection.
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