Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
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` ... helps to recreate for us something of the feel of a vital component of mass-popular culture and as such should be warmly welcomed.' - Social History Society
`It's a fascinating social document topped and tailed by informative modern appreciations of Mass-Observations methods.' - North West Labour History
`It's a fascinating social document topped and tailed by informative modern appreciations of Mass-Observations methods.' - North West Labour History
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Gary Cross is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University.
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In January 1937, a small band of young English people formed the research group, Mass-Observation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
holiday dream, necking couples, holiday week, private hotel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pleasure Beach, Central Pier, Winter Gardens, Colonel Barker, Tom Harrisson, George Formby, Tower Company, Central Station, Noah's Ark, Fun House, South Shore, Ghost Train, Luna Park, North Shore, Angus Calder, Gogia Pasha, Gracie Fields, Luke Gannon, Mass-Observation Archive, North Pier, Opera House, Reginald Dixon, South Pier, Barrow Bridge, Britain Revisited New!
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In January 1937, a small band of young English people formed the research group, Mass-Observation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
holiday dream, necking couples, holiday week, private hotel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pleasure Beach, Central Pier, Winter Gardens, Colonel Barker, Tom Harrisson, George Formby, Tower Company, Central Station, Noah's Ark, Fun House, South Shore, Ghost Train, Luna Park, North Shore, Angus Calder, Gogia Pasha, Gracie Fields, Luke Gannon, Mass-Observation Archive, North Pier, Opera House, Reginald Dixon, South Pier, Barrow Bridge, Britain Revisited New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- English Journey by J. B. Priestley on 6 pages
- Love on the Dole (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Walter Greenwood on page 7, and page 14
- The Blackpool Landlady: A Social History by John K. Walton on page 15, and Back Matter
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell on page 7, and page 12
- The Blackpool Landlady by John K. Walton on page 15, and Back Matter
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