Allan Brodie
Allan Brodie is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University. He was formerly an historian who worked for Historic England. He is the co-author of Seaside Holidays in the Past (2005) and England’s Seaside Resorts (2007). He has also recently published The Seafront, examining the history and geography of the space between low tide on the first line of buildings.
Allan has also published books on the seaside heritage of individual; resorts, Margate (2007), Weymouth (2008), Blackpool (2014) and Weston-super-Mare (2019). He has also co-written a four-volume history of Travel and Tourism 1700-1914, (2014) using sources to illustrate the development of holidaymaking in Britain. This led him to publish Tourism and the changing face of the British Isles in 2019.
In research papers he has explored topics such as the early development of seaside resorts and ports, including the sex life of Georgian Scarborough, Liverpool’s lost history of sea bathing and a typology of the origins of seaside resorts.
Allan is also the co-author of Behind Bars (2001) and English Prisons: An Architectural History (2002), following visits to every working prison open in 2000. In 2001 he also produced a major report on the development of law courts in England.
Allan is also the co-author of a book on the defences of the Isles of Scilly and the threat of climate change (2011) and he has written the section on medieval stone sculpture of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Catalogue.
Phone: +447810263337
Address: Star, Wales, United Kingdom
Allan has also published books on the seaside heritage of individual; resorts, Margate (2007), Weymouth (2008), Blackpool (2014) and Weston-super-Mare (2019). He has also co-written a four-volume history of Travel and Tourism 1700-1914, (2014) using sources to illustrate the development of holidaymaking in Britain. This led him to publish Tourism and the changing face of the British Isles in 2019.
In research papers he has explored topics such as the early development of seaside resorts and ports, including the sex life of Georgian Scarborough, Liverpool’s lost history of sea bathing and a typology of the origins of seaside resorts.
Allan is also the co-author of Behind Bars (2001) and English Prisons: An Architectural History (2002), following visits to every working prison open in 2000. In 2001 he also produced a major report on the development of law courts in England.
Allan is also the co-author of a book on the defences of the Isles of Scilly and the threat of climate change (2011) and he has written the section on medieval stone sculpture of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Catalogue.
Phone: +447810263337
Address: Star, Wales, United Kingdom
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https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjth20
The amusement park: history, culture and the heritage of pleasure edited by Jason Wood, London and New York, Routledge, 2017
https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjth20
The amusement park: history, culture and the heritage of pleasure edited by Jason Wood, London and New York, Routledge, 2017