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Аннотация: Clubland. How The Working Men's Club Shaped Britain
The untold story of a British institution.
Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey through the intoxicating history of the working men's clubs. From the movement's founding by teetotaller social reformer the Reverend Henry Solly to the booze-soaked mid-century heyday, when more than 7 million Brits were members, this warm-hearted and entertaining book reveals how and why the clubs became the cornerstone of Britain's social life - offering much more than cheap Federation Bitter and chicken in a basket.
Often dismissed as relics of a bygone age - bastions of bigotry and racism - Brown reminds us that long before the days of Phoenix Nights, 3,000-seat venues routinely played host to stars like Shirley Bassey, Louis Armstrong, and the Bee Gees, offering entertainment for all the family, and close to home at that. Britain's best-known comedians made reputations through a thick miasma of smoke, from Sunniside to Skegness. For a young man growing up in the pit town of Barnsley this was a radiant wonderland that transformed those who entered.
Brown explores the clubs' role in defining masculinity, community and class identity for generations of men in Britain's industrial towns. They were, at their best, a vehicle for social mobility and self-improvement, run as cooperatives for working people by working people: an informal, community-owned pre-cursor to the Welfare State.
As the movement approaches its 160th anniversary, this exuberant book brings to life the thrills and the spills of a cultural phenomenon that might still be rescued from irrelevance.
| Автор/составитель | Brown Pete |
| Год выпуска | 2022 |
| ISBN | 9780008457549 |
| Производитель | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Количество томов | 1 |
| Количество страниц | 289 |
| Переплет | Суперобложка |
| Размеры | 242x163x30 мм |
| Цвет | Синий |
| Тип бумаги | офсетная (60-220 г/м2) |
| Вес | 498 |
| Язык | английский |
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Clubland. How The Working Men's Club Shaped Britain
- Модель: MYSH4920104
- ISBN: 9780008457549
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