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Recreation -- Great Britain

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• Recreation
• Great Britain

• Popular culture -- Great Britain

• Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs (1910), by T. Sharper Knowlson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Jon Mee
  • PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1701-1795 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Kate Fullagar (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)

• The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection With the Calendar (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1869), by Robert Chambers (HTML at thebookofdays.com)
• Chambers's Book of Days (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1879), by Robert Chambers (page images at Wisconsin)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919), by Walter Clarke Phillips
  • HTML at github.io
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2004), ed. by Nicola McDonald (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Modern Street Ballads (1888), ed. by John Ashton (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore, Reprinted From the Original Tracts and Pamphlets Printed by Denham Between 1846 and 1859 (2 volumes (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society v29 and v35); 1892-1895), by Michael Aislabie Denham, ed. by James Hardy
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Windsor Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Fundamentals of Recreation (New York and Evanston: Harper and Row, c1963), by Thomas S. Yukic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leisure Time Education: A Handbook of Creative Activities for Teachers and Group Leaders (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1946), by Anna May Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theory of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Richard Munch and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)

• Theory of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Richard Munch and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Arms and the Man (partial serial archives)
• Shooting and Fishing (partial serial archives)
• The American Rifleman, by National Rifle Association of America (partial serial archives)

• The Girl's Own Book (18th edition, entirely re-edited; London: W. Tegg and Co., 1858), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Clara de Chatelain
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Leisure Hour (London-based illustrated magazine, 1852-1905) (full serial archives)

• Outing (partial serial archives)

• American Journal of Play (full serial archives)

• Spin (online issues from 1985-2012) (partial serial archives)
• Avant-Garde (New York, 1968-1971) (full serial archives)
• Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)
• The Bookman (New York, 1895-1933) (partial serial archives)
• Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture (full serial archives)

• Sermon on Christian Recreation and Unchristian Amusement (1858), by Theodore L. Cuyler (page images at MOA)

• Joining In: An Investigation into Participatory Music (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, c1997), by Anthony Everitt (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)

• Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), ed. by Anna R. Beresin and Julia C. Bishop (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• A Playful Path (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), by Bernie DeKoven (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007), by Tim Gill (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)

• Unpopular Culture (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), ed. by Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• The Cultural Gutter (book collection of articles from the website; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2010), by Carol Borden, Ian Driscoll, Jim Munroe, James Schellenberg, and Chris Szego (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), by Clare Birchall (PDF with commentary at a oapen.org)
• Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2017), by Judith Fathallah (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and Its Consequences (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Chris Rojek (HTML with commentary at bloomsburycollections.com)
• Missions for Thoughtful Gamers (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Andrew Cutting (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plenitude (electronic edition 2.0), by Grant David McCracken (HTML at cultureby.com)

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