{"id":20868,"date":"2022-12-20T15:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=221999"},"modified":"2022-12-20T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:12:22","slug":"brits-abroad-a-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/brits-abroad-a-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits abroad: a history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Lucy Lethbridge discusses her new book on the emergence and boom of mass British tourism. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, she touches on early package holidays led by the fatherly Thomas Cook, the vomit-inducing travails of long-distance stagecoach journeys, the romance of camping and the hedonistic pleasures of 19th-century health spas.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-221999-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/LucyLethbridge-de2556f.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/LucyLethbridge-de2556f.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/LucyLethbridge-de2556f.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Lucy Lethbridge is the author of <em>Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tourists-Lethbridge-Lucy\/dp\/1408856220\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/tourists\/lucy-lethbridge\/9781408856222&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 12:00 am Lucy Lethbridge discusses her new book on the emergence and boom of mass British tourism. 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