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Cover for Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America
Linda A. Newson (ed)
April 6, 2020
Cover for Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65 Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65
Sam Manning
March 31, 2020
Cover for A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? Debating the Legacy of the Sandinista Revolution A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? Debating the Legacy of the Sandinista Revolution
Hilary Francis (ed)
February 24, 2020
Cover for Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond
Jack Webb, Roderick Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, William Tantam (eds)
February 18, 2020
Cover for Marathon – 2,500 Years: Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 Marathon – 2,500 Years: Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010
Christopher Carey, Michael Edwards (eds)
November 8, 2019
Cover for The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53
Edward Owens
October 15, 2019
Cover for Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Peter Wade, James Scorer, Ignacio Aguiló (eds)
September 30, 2019
Cover for Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America
Niall H.D. Geraghty, Adriana Laura Massidda; Lucy O'Sullivan, Cristian Silva, Paul Merchant, Orlando Deavila Pertuz, Lucy McMahon, Anabella Roitman, Simone Kalkman, Geoffrey Kantaris
August 21, 2019
Cover for Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65 Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65
Sam Manning
March 31, 2020

Cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity in the first half of the twentieth century, peaking in 1946 with 1.6 billion recorded admissions. Though ‘going to the pictures’ remained a popular pastime, the transition to peacetime altered citizens’ leisure habits. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid declines in attendance. Cinema attendances fell in all regions, but the speed, nature and extent of decline varied widely across the United Kingdom.

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