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.

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)

Ikerbasque. Basque Foundation for Science