Start Up History is a perfect introduction to history for young children. Key information is presented through a combination of simple, clear text, and strong visual images. Questionsask the reader to search for visual clues, identifying differences and similarities between different periods. The large format of the book enhances this, presenting an ideal opportunity for detailed exploration and discussion. Seaside Holidays helps children identify similarities and differences between seaside holidays taken today and those taken in the past. Children are introduced to period-specific aspects of seaside holidays, geographical seaside features and seaside vocabulary. Using contemporary and historical photographs, children can discover the past with topics such as when we take holidays, how we travel to the seaside and what we wear to go swimming.
This book focuses on Thomas Arthur Leonard, a Congregational minister in Colne, Lancashire in the 1890s, and the Co-operative Holidays Association, which he founded in 1893. The Co-operative Holidays Association, which was re-named the Countrywide Holidays Association in 1964, but was always affectionately known as the CHA, operated as an independent provider of outdoor holidays until 2002. Leonard left the CHA in 1913 to establish the Holiday Fellowship, an organisation with similar ideals to the CHA, which continues to trade as HF Holidays. Leonard was also instrumental in the establishment of the Youth Hostels Association in 1930 and the formation of the Ramblers’ Association in 1935, of which he was the first President. He strongly supported the National Trust, founded in 1895, and was a stalwart of the campaign for national parks during the 1930s. He was a founder member of the Friends of the Lake District in 1934, and was connected with a number of other outdoor holiday organisations. This book details the life and achievements of this extraordinary man, who rebelled against the conventionality of the 1880s and 1890s and was appalled by the dull and grim lives of artisans and textile workers in the industrial north of England. It also tells the story of the CHA, which pioneered walking holidays in the outdoors for working people, from its foundation in 1893 to its demise in 2004. The book describes how the CHA faced the challenges of changing social, economic and cultural conditions during the twentieth century, such as increasing affluence and consumer choice, changing cultural attitudes and expectations, the popularisation of outdoor recreation and the proliferation of outdoor holiday providers. It shows how the CHA drifted away from its original ideals in an attempt to remain viable in the face of increasing consumerism, but, nevertheless, continued to provide holidays for thousands of people based on healthy recreation and quiet enjoyment, and the principles of friendship and fellowship.
Separate Core and Foundation Books ensure that ALL pupils' needs are supported at exactly the right level. Identical pagination and coverage of the same topics makes them easy to use. Clear objectives for each unit helps pupils understand the purpose of their work. A self-assessment checklist at the end for pupils to check and follow-up their understanding and the 360 review page at the end of each chapter provides a ready-made assessment for teachers and a useful review for pupils. A skills reference section can be used as a quick reminder and practice for skills such as drawing pictograms, bar charts and using atlases. Key words are highlighted and explained when first introduced in a unit to aid comprehension. Popular topics such as Earthquakes and Volcanoes are included in Book 3 to help maintain pupils' interest in Geography and encourage them to continue with the subject at GCSE level.
A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.
The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons’ lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Michael John Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-class holidaymakers. A World Away moves beyond the big players in the tourist industry and technical accounts of the airplanes used by tour operators to tell the histories of the people who were there, both tourists and tour guides, using their personal testimonies. Until now there has been uncertainty about the identity of these new tourists: some feared they were working-class intruders who might invade the pristine destinations favoured by the elite; others claimed that most were from the middle class. Using new data derived from flight accident investigations, Law explains the complex origins of these new flyers. In British society this unprecedented mobility could not go unpunished, and the new tourists were lampooned in books and newspapers aimed at the middle classes. Law shows how popular culture, movies, and music influenced the decision to travel, and what actually happened when these new holidaymakers went abroad. Law investigates the package tour industry from its mid-century origins through its inherent weaknesses, governmental interference, and unforeseen world events that contributed to its partial failure in the early 1970s. A World Away provides the definitive account of this important change in postwar British society.
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