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LSA Publication No. 103

Recording Leisure Lives:
Histories, Archives and Memories
of Leisure in 20th Century Britain

Available from LSA Publications
March 2008

ISBN 978 1 905369 14 0

eds. Bob Snape
and Helen Pussard

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LSA No. 103 Contents

Recording Leisure Lives: Histories, Archives and Memories of Leisure in 20th Century
Britain: Editors' Introduction
. . . Bob Snape and Helen Pussard

I    Recording Leisure

     Tourism and Holidays in Britain Between the Wars: Approaches and Opportunities
     . . . John K. Walton

     Quantifying Leisure Trends: The Problems and Possibilities of Census Data 1901­1951
     . . . Mike Huggins

     Souvenirs, Snaps and Soundbites: Museums, Heritage and Leisure
     . . . Matthew Constantine

II   Leisure Lives

     The Baines Card and its Place in Boys' Popular Culture between 1887 and 1922
     . . . Alexander Jackson

     Consuming Enid Blyton: Twentieth Century Children's Reading in Microcosm
     . . . David Rudd

     Mass Observation at the Dance Hall: A Democracy of Fashion?
     . . . Sarah Norris

     Remembering, Telling and Reconstructing: Oral Histories of the Northern Working-class
     at Leisure in Rugby League
     . . . Karl Spracklen, Jonathan Long and Stan Timmins

III   Sites of Leisure

     Mass-Observation's The Pub And The People
     . . . Paul Jennings

     Public Baths and Wash-houses in Cardiff: A Case Study of Public Health and Leisure in 1900
     . . . Simon Allen and Scott Fleming

     The History of a Scottish Sporting Landscape
     . . . Fiona Reid

     Heritage versus Modernity: The National Eisteddfod as an Example of Welsh Leisure
     Customs in the Twentieth Century
     . . . Kimberly Bernard Stacey