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Back to ProgrammeMadeleine Bunting is the award-winning author of Love of Country. Her latest book – Seaside – reveals the vivid journey she undertook around England’s great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England.
England’s seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy beaches, salt marshes, and estuaries cutting deep inland. On these coastal edges, England’s great holiday resorts grew up, developed in the early eighteenth century originally as spas for medicinal bathing but soon morphing into places of pleasure, entertainment, fantasy and adventure.
