Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson

Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment

Lee Jackson

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Charting the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts, and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar thrills of the pleasure-garden and international expo, from parachuting monkeys to human zoos, Lee Jac...

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