Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain

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Packaging Pleasure

Sandra Dawson, Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Mortimer

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English

Manchester University Press
01 February 2011

Social & cultural history; Sociology: sport & leisure; Sport & leisure industries

Series: Studies in Popular Culture

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. -- .

By: Sandra Dawson
Series edited by: Jeffrey Richards
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780719080715
ISBN 10: 0719080711
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 February 2011
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Creating a culture for leisure 1. Imagining consumers: Working-class families and paid holidays 2. Building the luxury holiday camp industry 3. Advertising holiday camp culture and inventing social harmony 4. War and the business of leisure 5. The 'People's Peace': Postwar pleasure and austerity 6. Planned pleasure, labour shortages and consumer resistance Epilogue Select Bibliography Index -- .

Sandra Dawson is an Instructor in History and Women's Studies at Northern Illinois University

Reviews for Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure

'This is an excellent book that examines the history of holiday camps and paid holidays.' Brad Beaven, English Historical Review, vol 128, no 530, February 2013 -- .