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Recording Leisure Lives: Holidays and Tourism in 20th century Britain

Drawing its inspiration from Humphrey Spender's Mass Observation photographs of Worktowners in Blackpool, this conference focuses on the leisure experiences of people on holiday in twentieth century Britain. This period witnessed marked changes in holidaymaking, brought about by advances in transport, the growth of "mass" tourism, the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938 and the multi-faceted expansion of the tourism industry. From the seaside resorts, holiday camps and organised outdoor holidays of the inter-war period to the competition from Mediterranean resorts, the use of holidays as signifiers of social status and the consumption of the exotic through travel in the post-war decades, the construction of the 'tourist gaze' and the meanings attached to holidays have been continually reworked throughout the twentieth century.

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http://www.bolton.ac.uk/conferences/leisurelives/|