‘Curiosity about the patients doesn’t erase stigma; it perpetuates stigma. Sneaking around asylums diminishes the lived experience of the patients who suffered in there. It’s not OK to lie in someone else’s coffin or wear someone else’s straitjacket’ (Yanni, 2010). The Historical Madhouse and its Treatments Meaning a ‘place of refuge’, the historical mental asylumContinue reading “Manicured Lawns and the Mentally Ill: the Rise and Fall of Asylum Tourism.”
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Tour Buses and Travel Guides: Defining the Who By the What
Beginning in London and ending most commonly in Kathmandu, the hippie trail, also known as the overland route, was a path through Europe and Asia that represented liberation “from the constraints of jobs, mortgages and social conventions” (Gemie, 2018, np). In other words, it was a way of leaving the Western world behind and movingContinue reading “Tour Buses and Travel Guides: Defining the Who By the What”
The Hippie Trail Revisited: Reflections on a Spiritual and Cultural Era of Travel and Exploration
By Elliot Travis A group of travellers stood outside their campervan in Asia. As we saw in the previous blog post, most Brits travelled to places with lots of sun and beaches and chose package holidays. However, there was a minority that looked for an alternative, one of which was the Hippie Trail. Little routesContinue reading “The Hippie Trail Revisited: Reflections on a Spiritual and Cultural Era of Travel and Exploration”
“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore Earth, too early to explore space” ,but just in time for affordable package holidays to sunny Italy!
The Great British holiday finds itself to exist in many different states. From city breaks across Europe to Grand Tours (not THE Grand Tour, or the Top Gear series…) of historical pathways not yet lost to time, trekking the Silk Road or gazing upon the Parthenon. There fortunately exists a near perfect middle ground forContinue reading ““We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore Earth, too early to explore space” ,but just in time for affordable package holidays to sunny Italy!”
Peaks, Passion and Phthisis: Romantic Literary Depictions of Tuberculosis and Mountaineering.
‘The TB sufferer was a dropout, a wanderer in endless search of the healthy place. TB became a new reason for exile, for a life that was mainly travelling’. (Sontag, 1978, p. 9) Romantic descriptions of phthisis, or poet-killing disease, are imbued with a quasi-religious fervour and a frantic desire to sentimentalise what contemporaries now think ofContinue reading “Peaks, Passion and Phthisis: Romantic Literary Depictions of Tuberculosis and Mountaineering.”
Egyptian excursions: The emergence of accessible package holidays: 1840-1900.
For many of you reading this blog today, I am sure some of your earliest holidaying memories likely include ice creams on the rough English coastal beaches of Scarborough, Blackpool, or Falmouth. Perhaps you may have even been fortunate enough to experience the sweltering Spanish sun over the school holidays, complete with your Mum dousingContinue reading “Egyptian excursions: The emergence of accessible package holidays: 1840-1900.”
Idiots on Ibiza
By Maisie Rhia Kaye-Priestley Vamos de fiesta! The development of Party Package holidays on Ibiza A Brief History of Ibiza: A rocky history of Ibiza: both literally and metaphorically. The thousands of years of ongoing invasions, differing settlers and reshaping of the land has changed the way in which we view the island in theContinue reading “Idiots on Ibiza”
Cruisin’ With Class
Cruises in the modern context are seen as floating fortresses, self-sufficient in a variety of ways from water reclamation to the offerings of a plethora of food, drink and entertainment. However, these modern cruises could not profess such an aptitude for entertainment without first looking back at their earliest ancestors and the opulence they offeredContinue reading “Cruisin’ With Class”
From The First Blitz to Glamour: Development of British Civil Aviation.
The First World War brought with destruction and carnage, but this conflict is the one that was to turn killing machines into ones of pleasure. The Golden Age of Aviation (Pattillo, 1998, p. 11) was a period of progressive change between World War One and World War Two in which aircraft which were once dualContinue reading “From The First Blitz to Glamour: Development of British Civil Aviation.”
RMS Olympic and the Opulence of the Transatlantic Crossing
“They [ocean liners] began to assume the character of ocean-going city states, covering a complete cross-section of modern human civilization, in all walks of life’’ (Dawson, 2005, p. 97) Marred by Tragedy The Olympic class liners were undoubtedly some of the most luxurious forms of travel available at the turn of the twentieth century butContinue reading “RMS Olympic and the Opulence of the Transatlantic Crossing”
Britons Abroad 