Not Like Home: American visitors to Britain in the 1950s
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- qwy3v
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- ISBN
- 9780773558847
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- An interdisciplinary monograph incorporating the fields of Tourism History, Leisure Studies, American Studies and Diplomatic History. Research was conducted over two years in the United Kingdom and the United States, interrogating the unpublished memoirs and diaries of Americans travelling to Britain in the 1950s. Research visits were made to Duke University, University of North Carolina, and the Library of Congress. Archive material was retrieved from Claremont Colleges CA and Brigham Young University. An in-depth interview was conducted in Washington DC. Research on the reception of the visitors was also conducted in various British national and local archives.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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