Peter Borsay

Biographic Data

ID451812
NAMEPeter Borsay
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEBorsay
SIGNATUREBORSAY P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX3

  • Walking Histories, 1800–1914

    Peter BorsayARTICLESocial History2017

    Walking is such a ubiquitous, essential but often unconscious activity, rather like eating and breathing, that it is easy to ignore it, or write it off as a-historical. We would do this at our peri

  • Leisure Cultures In Urban Europe, C.1700-1870

    Peter Borsay, Jan Hein FurnéeBOOKLeisure cultures in urban Europe,…2016

    This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe in the transition from the early modern to the modern period. The volume brings together research on a wide variety of leisure activities which are usually studied in isolation: from theatre and music culture, art exhibitions, spas and seaside resorts, to sports and games, walking and cafés and restaurants. The book develops a new research agenda for the history of…

  • Nature, the past and the English town

    Open AccessPeter BorsayARTICLEUrban History2016Cited by: 3References: 13

    In investigating urban culture, historians have understandably tended to focus on the man-made and the modern, and have paid less attention to the role of nature and the past, which seem the opposite of what the town stands for. This survey, which takes as its case-study England, argues that nature and the past have always been part of urban life, but as urbanization gathered pace, particularly from the eighteenth century, they became if anything…

  • Blackpool's seaside heritage

    Peter BorsayARTICLEJournal of Tourism History2015

  • Transport et divertissement dans les villes anglaises à travers le long XVIII e siècle

    Open AccessPeter Borsay, Paula SalnotARTICLEHistoire urbaine2013

    Au long XVIII e siècle, les îles britanniques virent une urbanisation rapide. La croissance démographique et commerciale mit une pression de plus en plus importante sur l’infrastructure des villes, dont les rues remontaient souvent au Moyen Âge. Une partie de cette pression vint d’une hausse de la circulation liée aux loisirs, avec les visiteurs des nouveaux équipements de loisirs – salles d’assemblée ou de concert, théâtres, promenades et boutiq…

  • A Room With a View

    Open AccessPeter BorsayARTICLETransactions of the Royal…2013References: 5

    The expansion in consumption that marked the British economy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was based not only on a growth in material goods, but also of experientially and culturally rich products such as leisure and tourism. Underpinning the latter of these, and of key importance in the rise of the seaside resort, was the process of visualisation. The ‘tourist gaze’ became a commodity in its own right, geared around environmental an…

  • Town or country? British spas and the urban–rural interface

    Peter BorsayARTICLEJournal of Tourism History2012Cited by: 2

    This paper explores the ambivalent geographical and cultural status of spas in Britain. Some were located in traditional urban centres, others expanded to the point where they became 'new towns'; all supported in some measure an urbane culture, and were part of a wider process where from the later seventeenth century many towns were becoming centres of up-market health and leisure services. However, most spas were established in rural locations a…

  • Resorts and Ports

    Peter Borsay, John K WaltonBOOKResorts and ports2011

  • Resorts and ports

    Peter BorsayBOOKResorts and ports2011

  • Chapter 6. From Port to Resort

    Peter BorsayCHAPTERResorts and ports2011

  • Geoffrey Holmes and the Urban World of Augustan England

    Open AccessPeter BorsayARTICLEParliamentary History2009

    Urban history as a sub‐discipline within history began to emerge in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s. Attention initially focused heavily on the 19th century, but the Tudor and early Stuart town also soon attracted attention. Academic interest in the post‐restoration and 18th‐century urban world emerged a little more slowly, but the closing decades of the 20th century produced a mounting volume of research on the subject. Geoffrey Holmes was …

  • A Subject for Taste

    Peter BorsayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008

    Cultural interpretations of eighteenth-century English history, and cultural histories of eighteenth-century England, have become something of a fashion. This reflects not only recent trends in historiography, such as ‘the cultural turn’, but also non-professional perceptions of the period as a high point in the history of English culture—something to be seen in the considerable social kudos and financial value now attached to its artefacts. Jere…

  • Why are houses interesting

    Open AccessPeter BorsayARTICLEUrban History2007Cited by: 1

    Shortly into his path-breaking study of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London , Peter Guillery remarks that ‘houses are principally interesting because people live in them’ (p. 10). To urban historians the observation might seem unexceptional, even banal. To many architectural historians his comment would be incomprehensible. Therein lies the difficulty for the urban historian with a concern for housing, public buildings and planning. Ther…

  • A History of Leisure

    Open AccessPeter BorsayBOOKA History of Leisure2006

  • Harrogate Great Chronicle, 1332-1841

    Peter BorsayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Writing local history is often a labour of love—and it is hard to conceive of another project where this is more evident. Harrogate Great Chronicle is divided into two parts. The first provides an extensive ‘narrative history’ from 1332, the date of the first documentary record of Harrogate, to 1841; the second takes the form of a CD ROM, inserted in the rear flap, containing ‘a comprehensive collection of documentary source materials pertinent t…

  • The Imaginary Autocrat

    Peter BorsayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    This is now the best biography we have of the man who acted as Master of Ceremonies at Bath during the first half of the eighteenth century, and who has become one of the iconic figure of Georgian Britain. The first chapter reconstructs what little is known of the early life of Nash, before summarising the history of the spa up until 1700. Chapter 2 outlines the already thriving character of Bath (something not always acknowledged) at the time of…

  • New Approaches to Social History. Myth, Memory, and Place

    Peter BorsayARTICLEJournal of Social History2006

    This paper examines the rich possibilities for social history opened up by the cultural turn. Focusing on the interplay of myth, memory, and place, it begins with the Kymin, a hillside site outside the Welsh border town of Monmouth. In about 1800 this site was carefully remodelled to invest it with a series of meanings—urban/rural, enlightened/romantic, Welsh/English/British—through which those who visited it were able to explore and express thei…

  • Pouvoir et culture au sein de la métropole des Lumières

    Open AccessPeter BorsayARTICLEHistoire urbaine2005

    Pouvoir et culture au sein de la metropole des Lumieres: les iles britanniques 1660-1800', Histoire Urbaine (2005) 12 pp.117-144

  • Introduction

    Open AccessPeter Borsay, Louise Miskell et al.ARTICLEUrban History2005

    The publication in 2000 of the three-volume Cambridge Urban History of Britain presented British urban historians with an ideal opportunity to take stock of the current state of research in their discipline. For Welsh urban historians it raised a number of particularly thorny issues. Whilst it contained some important chapters focused exclusively on the history of Welsh towns, it also identified Wales as one of the most under-researched areas of …

  • Sounding the town

    Open AccessPeter BorsayARTICLEUrban History2002

    Interdisciplinarity has proved to be one of the enduring tenets of British urban history. As Fiona Kisby points out in her contribution to this special issue of Urban History , its centrality is enunciated in the agenda set by Jim Dyos in the 1960s, as the subject emerged as a self-conscious subdiscipline of British history, and in the editorials that launched this publication as a Yearbook and subsequently as a journal. The appeal of an interdis…

  • Le concert et son public

    Open AccessIngeborg Allihn, Peter Borsay et al.BOOKLe concert et son public2002Cited by: 4

    Depuis son émergence au xviiie siècle, le concert est devenu un lieu central de l'activité musicale, aussi bien pour les musiciens que pour le public. Les transformations profondes que cette forme d'exécution et d'appropriation de la musique a connues pendant les deux derniers siècles et qui déterminent nos propres rapports à la musique, sont susceptibles d'éclairer une histoire des pratiques liées à la musique entre 1780 et le début du xxe siècl…

  • From Courtesy to Civility

    Peter BorsayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2000

    Journal Article From Courtesy to Civility: Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England Anna Bryson Get access Peter Borsay Peter Borsay University of Wales, Lampeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1302–1303, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1302 Published: 01 November 2000

  • Shorter notice. Urbane and Rustic England, Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces, 1660-1780. C Estabrook

    Peter BorsayARTICLEThe English Historical Review1999

    Journal Article Urbane and Rustic England, Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces, 1660-1780. C Estabrook Get access P Borsay P Borsay University of Wales, Lampeter, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1321–1322, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1321 Published: 01 November 1999

  • P.A. Koolmees, Symbolen van openbare hygiëne

    Open AccessPeter Borsay, Elizabeth L Tingle et al.ARTICLEUrban History1998

    P.A. Koolmees, Symbolen van openbare hygiëne: gemeentelijke slachthuizen in Nederland 1795–1940. [Symbols of Public Hygiene: Municipal Slaughterhouses in the Netherlands 1795–1940.] Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 1997. 309pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Hfl.69.50. - Volume 25 Issue 3

  • Fat Sources and Big Ideas

    Open AccessPeter BorsayARTICLEJournal of Urban History1998