{"id":20845,"date":"2022-12-16T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=221587"},"modified":"2022-12-16T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:42:11","slug":"how-ballroom-dancing-gripped-britain","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/how-ballroom-dancing-gripped-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"How ballroom dancing gripped Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Emily Briffett\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 16 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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From the Turkey trot to the scandalously intimate moves of the Parisian tango, the 20th century saw Britain gripped by dance craze after dance craze. Performed in public halls up and down the country, ballroom took the nation by storm as people from all walks of life sashayed to the dancefloor with their partners. Hilary French tells Emily Briffett about ballroom\u2019s dramatic surge in popularity, its decline in the 1960s and its recent resurgence with Strictly Come Dancing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more about the history of dancing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Ballroomdancing-63f5385.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n
Hilary French is the author of Ballroom: A People\u2019s History of Dancing<\/em> (Reaktion Books, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n
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