Acting the part: 'Living history' as a serious leisure pursuit

Leisure Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 387-403

  Hunt, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LIFESTYLE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4644230632     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0261436042000231664     Document Type: Article

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