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John Walton

John Walton

Ikerbasque Research Professor
(British)

  • A graduate of the Universities of Oxford (BA, Modern History, 1970) and Lancaster (PhD, Social History, 1974)
  • Lancaster University, UK,1974-1998 (1995-8 Professor of Modern Social History); Research Professor, UCLan, Preston, UK,1998-2007 (University Director of Research 2003-4); Professor, INS, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2007-9
  • Research line: Social and cultural history of tourism and coastal resorts, with special reference to Britain and Spain. Editor of the Journal of Tourism History (Routledge) since 2009.
  • History Department at Lancaster University, UK, before moving to research management posts at the University of Central Lancashire and Leeds Metropolitan University, also in the UK.
  • Department of Contemporary History, Leoia, working with Professor Luis Castells' research group.

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Publications

2012

John K. Walton (2012)
The origins of the modern package tour? British motor-coach tours in Europe, 1930-70
Journal of Transport History

John K. Walton (2012)
Mallorca and Tourism, by R.J. Buswell
Annals of Tourism Research

John K. Walton (2012)
Health, sociability, politics and culture: spas in history, spas and history
Journal of Tourism History

2011

John K. Walton (2011)
Iparralde and the imagined south: tourism, the Basques and myths of the Midi in twentieth-century France
Nottingham French Studies

John K. Walton (2011)
The great escape: Britain´s love affair with the seaside holiday
BBC History Magazine

John K. Walton (2011)
The history of British spa resorts: an exceptional case in Europe?
Revista TST: Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunicaciones

John K. Walton (2011)
Seaside tourism in Europe: business, economic and urban history
Business History

John K. Walton (2011)
Sport and the Basques: constructed and contested identities, 1876-1936
Journal of Historical Sociology

John K. Walton (2011)
Review of 'Welfare's Forgotten Past' by Lorie Charlesworth
Journal of Social History

John K. Walton (editor) (2011)
Edited international journal
Journal of Tourism History

John K. Walton (2011)
Cumbrian identities: some historical contexts
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society

2010

John K. Walton (2010)
New directions in business history: themes, approaches and opportunities
Business History

John K. Walton and David Martín López (2010)
Freemasonry and civic identity: municipal politics, business and the rise of Blackpool, from the 1850s to 1914
Manchester Region History Review

Books and book chapters

Published

  • John K. Walton (2012)
    Type: chapters
    Book: Encyclopedia Britannica
    Chapter: Tourism
    Page numbers: No pagination: electronic publication
    ISBN: No ISBN: electronic publication | New York | Editors: Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Michael Bailey, Ben Clarke and John K. Walton (2012)
    Type: book
    Book: Understanding Richard Hoggart: a Pedagogy of Hope
    Chapter:
    Page numbers: x + 219
    ISBN: 9781405194945 (pbk) | Chichester | Editors: Wiley-Blackwell
  • E. Monin and N. Simonnot (eds.), chapter by Fred Gray and John K. Walton (2012)
    Type: chapters
    Book: L'Architecture Lumineuse an XXe siècle
    Chapter: Illuminating the Seaside
    Page numbers: 132-41
    ISBN: 978-94-6161-042-3 | Heule | Editors: Éditions Snoeck
  • M. Bailey and D. Freedman (2011)
    Type: chapters
    Book: The Assault on Universities: a Manifesto for Resistance
    Chapter: The Idea of the University
    Page numbers: 15-26
    ISBN: 978-0-7453-3191-1 | London | Editors: Pluto Press
  • M. González Portilla, J.M. Beascoechea Gangoiti, K. Zarraga Sangroniz (2011)
    Type: chapters
    Book: Procesos de transición, cambio e innovación en la ciudad contemporánea
    Chapter: Ciudades costeras y balnearios marítimos: historia y patrimonio
    Page numbers: 553-65
    ISBN: 978-84-9860-498-6 | Bilbao | Editors: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco
  • G. Massard-Guilbaud and S. Mosley (eds.) (2011)
    Type: chapters
    Book: Common ground: integrating the social and environmental in history
    Chapter: Seaside tourism and environmental history
    Page numbers: 66-85
    ISBN: 978-1-4438-2549-8 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Editors: Cambridge Scholars Press
  • Eric G.E. Zuelow (editor) (2011)
    Type: book
    Book: Touring beyond the nation
    Chapter: Seaside resorts and international tourism
    Page numbers: 19-36
    ISBN: 978-0-7546-6656-1 | Farnham | Editors: Ashgate
  • Peter Borsay and John K. Walton (editors) (2011)
    Type: book
    Book: Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700
    Chapter: 'Introduction', pp. 1-17, and 'Port and resort: symbiosis and conflict in "Old Whitby"', pp. 129-49
    Page numbers: xvi + 216
    ISBN: 9781845411978 | Bristol, UK | Editors: Channel View
  • A. Webster, A. Brown, D. Stewart, L. Shaw and J.K. Walton (eds.) (2011)
    Type: book
    Book: The Hidden Alternative: Co-operative Values Past, Present and Future
    Chapter: 'Introduction' (with other editors) and (with F. Molina), 'An alternative co-operative tradition: the Basque co-operatives of Mondragón'
    Page numbers: Book: x + 362 pp.; introduction: pp. 1-15; chapter, pp. 226-50
    ISBN: (pb) 978-0-7190-8656-4 | Manchester, Tokyo and New York | Editors: Manchester University Press and United Nations University Press
  • John K. Walton (2011)
    Type: book
    Book: Tourism and History
    Chapter:
    Page numbers: 1-30
    ISBN: 978-1-906884-30-7 | Oxford, UK | Editors: Goodfellow: Contemporary Tourism Review
  • John K. Walton and Patrick Browne (2010)
    Type: book
    Book: Coastal Regeneration in British Resorts - 2010
    Chapter:
    Page numbers: 253
    ISBN: 978-0-9564849-0-1 | Lincoln, UK | Editors: Coastal Communities Alliance
  • Karin Taylor and Hannes Grandits (eds.) (2010)
    Type: chapters
    Book: Yugoslavia's Sunny Side: a History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s-1980s)
    Chapter: Some contexts for Yugoslav tourism history
    Page numbers: ix - xxii
    ISBN: 9789639776692 | Budapest | Editors: Central European University Press
  • Richard Butler and Roslyn Russell (eds.) (2010)
    Type: chapters
    Book: Giants of Tourism
    Chapter: Thomas Cook: image and reality
    Page numbers: 81-92
    ISBN: 9781845936255 | Wallingford | Editors: CABI
  • Keith Hanley and John K. Walton (2010)
    Type: book
    Book: Constructing Cultural Tourism: John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze
    Chapter:
    Page numbers: 224
    ISBN: 9781845411541 | Bristol | Editors: Channel View
  • K. Cowman and I. Packer (eds.) (2010)
    Type: chapters
    Book: Radical Cultures and Local Identities
    Chapter: The local, the regional and the popular: Britain and Spain
    Page numbers: 235-49
    ISBN: 9781443823869 | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK | Editors: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • John K. Walton (editor) (2010)
    Type: book
    Book: Journal of Tourism History
    Chapter:
    Page numbers: 249
    ISBN: ISSN 1755-182X print, 1755-1838 on-line | London | Editors: Routledge/ Taylor and Francis
  • C. Topalov, L. Coudroy de Ville, J.-C. Depaule and B. Marin (eds.) (2010)
    Type: book
    Book: L'Aventure des Mots de la Ville
    Chapter: Resorts
    Page numbers:
    ISBN: 978-2221112045 | Paris | Editors: Robert Laffont

Congresses, Proceedings & Scientific meetings

  • Los historiadores del turismo y las fuentes: oportunidades, desafíos, ausencias. John K. Walton
    I Taller Internacional Historia y Turismo (2012) Congress
    Universidad Internacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina (Invited talk)
  • La invención del turismo popular. John K. Walton
    I Taller Internacional Historia y Turismo (2012) Congress
    Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina (Invited talk)
  • Commemorating the Luddites. John K. Walton
    Enoch's Hammer: the Luddites and other nineteenth-century protest movements (2012) Congress
    University of Huddersfield, UK (Invited talk)
  • Another face of 'mass tourism': San Sebastián and the Spanish seaside under Franco. John K. Walton
    Urban History Group (2011) Congress
    Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK (Invited talk)
  • Health, sociability, politics and culture: spas in history, spas and history. John K. Walton
    Historias comparativas de balnearios desde el siglo XVIII hasta el siglo XX (2011) Congress
    Mondariz Balneario and Santiago de Compostela (Organization and management)
 
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