Some Liked It Hot: The British On Holiday At Home & Abroad

Scarborough or St Lucia? Blackpool or Benidorm? Butlins or Bangkok? Where the British take their holidays nowadays is limited only by the imagination and the bank balance but, not so long ago, the options weren't quite so diverse.Swapping the Kiss-Me-Quick hat and good old fish 'n' chips for topless sunbathing and 'that foreign muck' took even longer than erecting a deck chair in a force eight gale.The over-cooked veg and overbearing landladies of the traditional British seaside resorts of the 1930s and 40s gave way to the fresh air fun and frolics of the Holiday Camp and the 'view-with-a-loo' caravan tours of the 50s and 60s, before the jet age really kicked in and the Costas became our springboard to the rest of the world.With its hugely entertaining first-hand accounts from four generations of holidaymakers and its treasure trove of nostalgic photographs, this is the definitive social history of the British on holiday.