Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800
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Bathing Beaches
bathing water quality
beach
Beach Pollution
Blue Flag
British tourism research
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coastal
coastal pollution
Coastal Tourism
Dirty Beaches
disposal
english
English Seaside
English Seaside Holiday
environmental activism
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golden
Golden List
Good Beach Guide
GWR
Health Resort
Heritage Coasts
holiday
interwar seaside resort transformation
Jacques Yves Cousteau
leisure studies
marine
Marine Disposal
MCS
pollution
public health history
resort
SAS Member
Sea Bathing
Sea Water
Seaside History
Seaside Holiday
Sewage Polluted Water
tourism
Ultra-violet Rays
WRC
Product details
- ISBN 9781138272057
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200 years many have made their way to the coast, attracted by the long sunshine hours, the clean ozone-charged air and the opportunities for bathing in and even drinking sea-water. Although the early health resort ideal began to give way to more pleasure orientated themes in the nineteenth century, the seaside holiday was still regarded by many as a wholesome and invigorating break from inland urban life well into the twentieth century. Yet with ever increasing numbers of visitors and rising levels of coastal pollution, this was by no means a forgone conclusion. The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 explores the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern image of the resort holiday. For these and other reasons the seaside holiday reached new peaks of popularity in the 1930s and 1950s, yet, this very success placed enormous pressures on the environmental amenities that people came to enjoy. As this work shows, environmental stresses were manifold, particularly pollution of the resorts' prime assets, their beaches. As such, serious questions are raised concerning why it took such a long time for a determined effort to be made to reverse beach pollution, and the lessons to be learned regarding the impact of negative images of the coast as a zone of danger and infection.
