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Call No.: GN 20 Tom Cook Annex Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939 / John K. Walton, James Walvin, editors. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1983. - 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: "The oddest combination of town and country" : popular culture and the London fairs, 1800-60 / Mark Judd -- The cinema and cinema-going in Birmingham in the 1930s / Jeffrey Richards -- The performing arts in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1840-70 / Kathleen Barker -- Oldham wakes / Robert Poole -- Popular musical culture and popular politics in the Yorkshire textile districts, 1880-1914 / Dave Russell -- Crewe : leisure in a railway town / Allan Redfern -- The corporation as impresario : the municipal provision of entertainment in Victorian and Edwardian Bournemouth / Richard Roberts -- Municipal government and the holiday industry in Blackpool, 1876-1914 / John K. Walton -- Victorian and Edwardian Ilfracombe / F. B. May -- Reading in the working-class home / David Vincent -- Children's pleasures / James Walvin.

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