Demobilisation and the Postwar Hotel: Britain’s Release and Retention of Requisitioned Premises, 1918–1925

Kevin J. James ()
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Chapter Chapter 5 in The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century, 2023, pp 79-100 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The hotelHotel is widely regarded as a citadel of hospitality—a place of shelter, safety, and sustenance. In wartime, its material and symbolic forms can change—preserving this trifecta of functions, even as they align in new ways with its wartime status as a privatised, and often highly securitised, space. Wartime can also introduce new roles for the hotelHotel—as a strategic command centre for the prosecution of war, for instance—that reflect layered uses of its spaces, and meanings and values ascribed to them.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45889-7_5

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