A World Away: The British Package Holiday Boom, 1950–1974

Revisiting a transformative period in British social history when, for the first time, large numbers of ordinary people flew abroad for their holidays.

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons’ lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-class holidaymakers.