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Bath Past
www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Bath/
Interesting history of the city of Bath and its historic buildings, which includes a collection of short articles with sections on Saxon, Medieval, Tudor and Stuart periods.
Butlins Memories
www.butlinsmemories.com/
Non-official enthusiasts' site with loads of photos and info from Butlins holiday camps going back to the 1950s.
Margate Sea Bathing Infirmary
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-Margate.html
Brief history of this infirmary opened in 1796.
Project Holiday
www.thefridayproject.co.uk/hi/tft/
culture_and_society/001743.php
Entertaining article that takes a close look at the ‘recent' Foreign Office report, apparently regurgitated from 2003.
Thomas Cook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook
Brief biography of Thomas Cook, the founder of the travel agency.
The Victorian Seaside
www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/
society/seaside_01.shtml
Good history of English seaside tourism from the Victorian era.
Why No-one Loves a British Tourist
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/
0,6903,759201,00.html
Author Andrew Martin asks why the simple fact of being abroad on holiday brings out the Alf Garnett in all of us Brits?
The British Seaside: Holidays and resorts in the twentieth century by John K Walton (Manchester University Press, 2000)
This is a detailed academic cultural study of the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain.
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Holidaymakers from Hell: Shocking behaviour by tourists abroad by Patrick Blackden (Virgin Books, 2004)
Meet the world's least favourite export: the nightmare tourist. In this collection of hilarious, real-life stories from the sharp end of the travel industry, you can find out just how low some tourists will sink in their pursuit of fun in the sun.
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Making of Modern Tourism: The cultural history of the British experience, 1600-2000 edited by Hartmut Berghoff et al (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
At the end of the 20th century, tourism was the world's largest single industry. The making of modern tourism was a long process, deeply rooted in the cultural and intellectual, economic and social history of Britain.
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Route 66 AD: On the trail of Ancient Roman tourists by Tony Perrottet (Ebury Press, 2003)
Australian travel writer Tony Perrottet traces the Mediterranean itinerary of the world's first tourists, the ancient Romans, with the help of an archaic guidebook from the era.
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