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.


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    Titel :

    Railway excursion agents in Britain, 1840–60


    Beteiligte:
    Major, Susan (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    BKL:    55.01 / 55.01 Geschichte des Verkehrswesens
    Lokalklassifikation TIB:    275/1910/4535/7000



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