Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790-c. 1965 - Couverture souple

Croll, Andy

 
9781786835864: Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790-c. 1965
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 178683586X ISBN 13 : 9781786835864
Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2020

Synopsis

Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of working-class day-trippers. This book considers its rise as a seaside resort and reveals a history that is much more complex, lengthy and important than has previously been recognised. As conventionally told, the story of the island as tourist resort begins in the 1890s, when the railway arrived in Barry - in fact, it was functioning as a watering place by the 1790s - yet decades of tourism produced no sweeping changes. Barry remained a district of 'bathing villages' and hamlets, not a developed urban resort. As such, its history challenges us to rethink the category of 'seaside resort' and forces us re-evaluate Wales's contribution to British coastal tourism in the 'long nineteenth century'. It also underlines the importance of visitor agency. Powerful landowners shaped much of the island's development but, ultimately, it was the working-class visitors who turned it into south Wales's most beloved tripper resort.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andy Croll is principal lecturer in History at the University of South Wales.

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Éditeur
University of Wales Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178683586X
ISBN 13 
9781786835864
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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Personne responsable
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