First published 2022

Introduction -- 'A flood of splendour' : Blackpool's new ballrooms -- Jazz, ragtime and tangoitis -- The democratization of dancing -- Basic technique takes shape -- Dancing in public -- Nightlife and private clubs -- Hollywood glamour -- Everyday glamour -- Togetherness : holiday camps and sequence dancing -- Jitterbug, rock 'n' roll and jive -- Latin, the 1960s and change -- Television, Come Dancing and Peggy Spencer -- The end of an era -- Twenty-first century ballroom -- Appendix: The ten international style ballroom and Latin dances