Going to the Palais - Nott, James (Lecturer in Modern History, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews)

From the Charleston to the Twist, Going to the Palais provides a lively and vivid account of dancing and its interaction with race, gender, class, and national identity in Britain from 1918 to 1960, exploring the pivotal role dancehalls and dancing played in twentieth-century British social and cultural history.