Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough

Wish You Were Here: England on Sea

Travis Elborough

230 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history funny informative fast-paced
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The seaside, like football and the railways, is a distinctly English and largely nineteenth century invention. At the Festival of Britain in 1951, a replica of a seafront represented hope and modernity - once the preserve of the sickly elite, the ...

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