Thomas Cook

Standard Name: Cook, Thomas

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5 July 1841: Thomas Cook organized the first chartered...

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5 July 1841

Thomas Cook organized the first chartered excursion train, which took a thousand Leicester temperance reformers for an eleven-mile round trip to Loughborough.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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1888: J. A. Froude published his influential and...

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1888

J. A. Froude published his influential and imperialist The English in the West Indies.
Edwards, Paul. “Black Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. The Black Presence in English Literature, edited by David Dabydeen and David Dabydeen, Manchester University Press, 1985, pp. 50-67.
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Texts

Cook, Thomas et al. The History of Tourism: Thomas Cook and the Origins of Leisure Travel. Routledge/Thoemmes, 1998.