Main entry:

Hembry, Phyllis M. (Phyllis May)

Title & Author:

The English spa, 1560-1815 : a social history / Phyllis Hembry.

Publication:

London : Athlone Press ; Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.

Description:

xiv, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Continued by: British spas from 1815 to the present.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-379) and indexes.
The Elizabethan transformation -- Bath and Buxton : the new vogue for going to the baths -- Stuart patronage and the drinking spas -- Bath and the Civil War -- Restoration development : the provincial spas -- Tunbridge Wells Rivals Bath : late Stuart changes -- Metropolitan spas -- Bath : the new towns -- Bath : the regulated society and the leisure industry -- Cold-bathing at the minor spas -- Cheltanham : the village spa -- The challenge of Cheltenham -- The innkeepers' rule : Harrogate and Scarborough -- The innkeepers' spas of Derbyshire : Buxton and Matlock -- Georgian spas of the South : Tunbridge Wells, Epsom and Southhampton -- The Severn spas : the Bristol Hotwells and Malvern -- Wartime Cheltenham : problems of expansion -- Bath : the price of primacy -- Leamington Priors and wartime minor spas.

ISBN:

0485113740
9780485113747
0838633919 (alk. paper)
9780838633915 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Health resorts England History.
Balneology history
Health Resorts history
Stations climatiques, thermales, etc. Angleterre Histoire.
Health resorts.
Manners and customs.
Kurort
Adel.
Badplaatsen (geneeskunde)
Vroeg moderne tijd.
Sozialgeschichte 1560-1815.
England Social life and customs.
England
Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes.
Großbritannien
England Spas Social aspects, history

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 180418
Call No.: ID DA665.H38; ID:98-B813
Status: Available