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Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain - Packaging Pleasure (Hardcover)
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Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain - Packaging Pleasure (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
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This book is the story of two holiday camp chains established in
the 1930s that provided thousands with packaged pleasure. Warner
and Butlin's commercial camps emerged at the intersection of
cultural shifts that politicised working-class leisure and
consumption. Entertainment fostered in the post-war camps provided
a forum for popular pleasure that reinforced the idea of a
'national' culture grown from the common experience of war. Butlin
and Warner, the big commercial chains of the 50s and 60s, are
enmeshed in our social and cultural history. Dawson uncovers the
significance of the holiday camps to the political, economic,
social, and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain, drawing
on an impressive variety of sources, from government documents to
trade journals, advertising, photographs, oral histories,
literature, films and songs. This unique volume will be of interest
to academics and specialists of British social history, popular
culture and tourism studies whilst remaining accessible to
enthusiasts. -- .
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