An informative and enjoyable read, reporting an exploration of the formative years of the Polytechnic Travel in the late 19th and early 20th century.

North West Labour History Journal 42

As featured in 'useful sources' part of Paul Blake's article on discovering where your ancestors spent their holidays and what records survive

WDYTYA? Magazine, July 2017

Overall, I thought this book was pretty good. It would be especially interesting to people doing Family Historical Research, or interested in the attitude of leisure time of the Late Victorians and Edwardians.

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Goodreads, Michelle McMenamin

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Antiques Diary, March 2017

This volume is ‘specialist’ in nature and this reviewer believes that it is likely to be of most interest and use to historians specialising in British social history, the history of British education (especially the development of ‘technical’ education), and the British Industrial Revolution. As it details the rise of British mass-travel, social-history researchers with an interest in that subject may also find this work useful, while those with a more ‘generalist’ interest in Britain may well find something to interest them.

NZ Crown Mines

This is an engaging history for which Matthews has looked at brochures, leaflets, guide books, memorabilia and a wealth of postcards, some of which are copied with that delight - the written side also reproduced, so we have authentic voices from the past.

WDYTYA? Magazine, February 2017 - reviewed by Jad Adams