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Brits abroad: a history

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Lethbridge discusses her new book on the emergence and boom of mass British tourism. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, she touches on early package holidays led by the fatherly Thomas Cook, the vomit-inducing travails of long-distance stagecoach journeys, the romance of camping and the hedonistic pleasures of 19th-century health spas. (Ad) Lucy Lethbridge is the author of Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves (Bloomsbury, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tourists-Lethbridge-Lucy/dp/1408856220/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.0

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:11.7

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

1:30.2

Whether it's a sun and sea resort, a far-flung adventure, or just the simple pleasures of camping. Nothing beats a good holiday.

1:37.8

And we aren't the first to think so. In her book, Tourists, How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Lucy Lethbridge looks at the emergence of mass British tourism in the 19th and 20th centuries.

1:45.9

She told me more about early package holidays led by the fatherly Thomas Cook,

1:51.2

vomit-inducing long-distance stagecoach journeys,

1:54.8

and the hedonistic pleasures of continental health spas.

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