Royal Recollections on a Tour to Cheltenham
Author : David Williams
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1788
Category : Great Britain
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Author : David Williams
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1788
Category : Great Britain
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Author : George III (King of Great Britain)
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1788
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Author : Susan Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 100055984X
The British led the way in holidaymaking. This four-volume primary resource collection brings together a diverse range of texts on the various forms of transport used by tourists, the destinations they visited, the role of entertainments and accommodation and how these affected the way that tourism evolved over two centuries. Volume 3: Seaside Holidays Over the course of the seventeenth century, medical writers and practitioners came to realise the health-giving properties of the seaside environment. By the early eighteenth century, this scientific interest was spreading to wealthy people in search of a rest cure. Bathing in the sea, drinking the waters and spending time in the bracing air became a widespread activity, and by the nineteenth century this had expanded thanks to extensive advertising and publicity about its beneficial effects. Specific forms of entertainment also developed, such as piers, aquaria, winter gardens and cinemas.
Author : Susan Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1000559831
The British led the way in holidaymaking. This four-volume primary resource collection brings together a diverse range of texts on the various forms of transport used by tourists, the destinations they visited, the role of entertainments and accommodation and how these affected the way that tourism evolved over two centuries. Volume 2: Spa Tourism This volume traces the development of the spa from modest arrangements that emerged in the early modern period, to the large, thriving spa towns that existed in the nineteenth century. Documents show how spas evolved as well as the treatments they offered. Specific case studies of key spas - Bath, Tunbridge Wells and Cheltenham - are used to illustrate this process. Bath's popularity as a tourist destination grew throughout the eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century it was one of the most popular destinations in Britain. Royal Tunbridge Wells was its greatest rival, and both towns benefited from the patronage of celebrated dandy, Beau Nash. Cheltenham's fashionable status was ensured by a visit from George III and his court in 1788.
Author : John Barrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199281203
How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously beenthought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Activities and spaces which had previously been regarded as 'outside' politics suddenly no longer seemed to be so, and the fear of revolution produced a culture of surveillance and suspicion which penetrated every aspect of private life. Drawing on an unusually widerange of sources, including novels, poems, plays, newspapers, debates in parliament, trials, political pamphlets, and caricatures, The Spirit of Despotism focuses on a number of examples of such invasions of privacy. It shows how the culture of suspicion affected how people spoke and behaved in London coffee-houses; how it influenced attitudes to the king's behaviour in private, especially during his summer holidays in Weymouth; how it infiltrated the country cottage, previouslyidealized as a protected haven of peace and retirement from political life; and how it influenced the fashion of the period, so that even the way people chose to style their hair came to be seen as a political issue.
Author : Edward Smith
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Science
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Author : William Cushing
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1789
Category : Curiosities and wonders
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Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1789
Category : Great Britain
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