| John K. Walton is
Professor of Social History at the University of Central Lancashire.
From November 2007 he will be Professor of Social History in the
Institute of Northern Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He
has worked on the history of the British seaside (especially
Blackpool and Whitby) for many years, as well as writing about
tourism and resorts in Spain (especially San Sebastian), Belgium,
France, the United States (especially Coney Island), and Latin
America. He also writes about
popular culture, regional history and regional identities,
especially in Lancashire and the Basque Country. His books include
The Blackpool Landlady (Manchester, 1978); the English Seaside
Resort 1750-1914 (Leicester, 1983); Lancashire: a Social History
1558-1939 (Manchester, 1887); Fish and Chips and the British Working
Class, 1870-1940 (Leicester, 1992); Blackpool (Edinburgh, 1998); The
British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century
(Manchester, 2000); and (with Gary Cross), The Playful Crowd:
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century (New York, 2005). |
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