British Sport: Local histories
British Sport: Local histories

Author: Richard William Cox

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780714652511

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Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914
Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914

Author: John Lowerson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780719046513

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This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain the making of the English middle classes; rather, it examines a significant part of that making.

Reverend ES Carter: A Yorkshire Cricketing Cleric
Reverend ES Carter: A Yorkshire Cricketing Cleric

Author: Anthony Bradbury

Publisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 191242102X

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The Rev Edmund Carter introduced the great Lord Hawke to Yorkshire cricket. Although he played only a handful of first-class matches for Yorkshire, he played the game for Oxford University in the 1860s, in Victoria as a young man, and in West London, before the bulk of his life’s work as a clergyman in the shadow of York Minster.

For Poulton and England
For Poulton and England

Author: James Corsan

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2009-11-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781848762107

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An outstanding leader and personality in every respect, Poulton captained England to what is now called a 'Grand Slam' in 1914 – the last season before the First World War. Once war was declared he spent seven months training in England with his battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment before crossing to Belgium via France at the end of March 1915. Five weeks later he was shot dead by a sniper in the trenches, still aged only twenty-five.