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Travel and Tourism in Britain, 17001914

Editors: Susan Barton and Allan Brodie
4 volume set: c.1600pp: July 2014 978 1 84893 412 2: 234x156mm: 350/$625

The British led the way in holidaymaking. During the eighteenth century travel was only available to the wealthiest people, but from the 1830s the railways brought a transport revolution, opening up the chance for travel to all classes. As tourism grew in popularity, a whole new industry developed. Many new large, lively towns grew up around spas and at the seaside to meet the needs of visitors. Guidebooks were produced, aimed at all sorts of holidaymakers and the first travel agencies emerged. This four-volume primary resource collection brings together a diverse range of texts on the various forms of transport used by tourists, the destinations they visited, the role of entertainments and accommodation and how these affected the way that tourism evolved over two centuries. Case studies on specific towns Bath, Cheltenham and Tunbridge Wells illustrate the rise of spa tourism, then studies of Brighton, Margate, Blackpool and Scarborough are used to demonstrate the later dominance of the seaside resort. The collection will be of interest to social and economic historians as well as those researching print culture and the history of tourism.

A Sketch in Ulstermarine, from Punch (March 1st, 1873)

Contains over 200 rare primary resources Includes diaries, memoirs, guide books, journal articles, railways guides, handbills, trade directories, local newspaper articles and poems Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes and endnotes A consolidated index appears in the final volume

Editors
Susan Barton is an honorary fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University Allan Brodie is an architectural historian for English Heritage

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Contents
Volume 1: Travel and Destination
Texts in this volume draw on accounts by early travellers, from short factual lists to longer subjective descriptions. Documents show how eagerly new forms of transport were adopted and how they gave rise to different leisure activities and new destinations. Methods of travel covered include: early road travel by horse or wagon, river travel via sail and steamships, railways, the safety bicycle, motorized transport (charabancs, coaches, buses, cars and bicycles) and finally, air travel.

Volume 3: Seaside Holidays

Over the course of the seventeenth century, medical writers and practitioners came to realise the healthgiving properties of the seaside environment. By the early eighteenth century, this scientific interest was spreading to wealthy people in search of a rest cure. Bathing in the sea, drinking the waters and spending time in the bracing air became a widespread activity, and by the nineteenth century this had expanded thanks to extensive advertising and publicity about its beneficial effects. Specific forms of entertainment also developed, such as piers, aquaria, winter gardens and cinemas.

Volume 2: Spa Tourism

This volume traces the development of the spa from modest arrangements that emerged in the early modern period, to the large, thriving spa towns that existed in the nineteenth century. Documents show how spas evolved as well as the treatments they offered. Specific case studies of key spas Bath, Tunbridge Wells and Cheltenham are used to illustrate this process. Baths popularity as a tourist destination grew throughout the eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century it was one of the most popular destinations in Britain. Royal Tunbridge Wells was its greatest rival, and both towns benefited from the patronage of celebrated dandy, Beau Nash. Cheltenhams fashionable status was ensured by a visit from George III and his court in 1788.

Volume 4: Seaside Resorts

The final volume presents case studies of four major seaside resorts: Scarborough, Margate, Brighton and Blackpool. Scarborough evolved from a spa town to a seaside resort. Margate became a coastal resort from scratch and became one of the earliest sites of mass tourism. Brighton had sea bathers by the 1730s and its early development followed a similar path to that of Margate, but its royal connections allowed its rapid growth into a large town with high quality accommodation. When the railway arrived at Blackpool in 1846 it was a large village. Thirty years later it had two piers and a large hotel. Its steady growth was due to the stream of working class visitors from the local hinterland of major industrial towns and cities.

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Series Editors: Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave
This is a series of multi-volume editions featuring full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate key themes in womens history. Published: Womens Travel Writings in Iberia; Womens Travel Writings in Italy; Womens Travel Writings in PostNapoleonic France; Womens Travel Writings in Revolutionary France Forthcoming: Womens Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East (2014); Womens Travel Writings in Scotland (2016)

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