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Presents a highly original and detailed investigation into the nature of American visual, musical and cultural influences on British youth between 1945 and 1960. It looks at the spread of youth culture, juke boxes, coffee and milk bars, dress styles and rock n roll and the context of these new cultural influences in design, music and lifestyle.

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Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, this book contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class and gender exclusive.

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Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.

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The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasms life world - from railway modelling to Britains huge preserved railway industry.

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The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- .

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The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- .

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The book charts the evolving relationship between cinema and radio during the heyday of the two media and compares and contrasts their development in Britain and America -- .

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During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and cinemagoing in Britain between 1939 and 1945, and explores the impact that the war had on the places in which British people watched films.

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Cricket and broadcasting discusses the roles of radio and television within English cricket since the beginnings of broadcasting. It explains how and why cricket has been increasingly shaped by its relationship with broadcasting. -- .

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This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction, in a period when Britain participated in increasingly global markets of cultural production, consumption and exchange.

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This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction, in a period when Britain participated in increasingly global markets of cultural production, consumption and exchange.

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Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explores the beginnings of a distinct youth culture in the streets and neighbourhood spaces of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.

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A study of darts and society. It examines the development of darts in the context of English society in the early twentieth century, concentrating principally upon key developments between 1918 and 1939. It is suitable for sports historians, social historians, business historians, sociologists and sports scientists.

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Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young peoples style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young peoples generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 19601970s Italian society.

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The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumiere Brothers' showing of their Cinematographe show at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. -- .

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The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumiere Brothers' showing of their Cinematographe show at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. -- .

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A study of youth, commerce, and leisure that explores the reimagination, remaking, and regulation of the post-war city after dark. Using a case study of Sheffield, this book considers the relationship between young people and their local environment and the meaning of leisure in post-war Britain.

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Hard sell explores advertising in Britain in the 1950s and 60s through extensive new archival research in Britain and America, combining the study of business practices with analysis of television and press advertisements. -- .

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Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .

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Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .

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A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British. -- .

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A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British. -- .

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This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomenon deeply enmeshed in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain. -- .