Using a range of contemporary press evidence, now searchable online, this article offers new perspectives on the British railway excursion agent in the period 1840-60. It argues that competing forces which were specific to localities shaped the potential for working-class leisure mobility offered by these agents, who might be regarded as social entrepreneurs. The role of Thomas Cook has been re-interpreted, using a case study of excursion agent Henry Marcus.
Railway excursion agents in Britain, 1840–60
The journal of transport history ; 36 , 1
2015
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
BKL: | 55.01 / 55.01 Geschichte des Verkehrswesens | |
Lokalklassifikation TIB: | 275/1910/4535/7000 |
New excursion trains, great western railway
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