Playing the Game
Playing the Game

Author: Kathleen E. McCrone

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1988-06-04

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780813116419

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" In England the latter years of the nineteenth century saw a period of rapid and profound change in the role of women in sports. Kathleen McCrone describes this transformation and the social changes it helped to bring about. Based upon a thorough canvas of primary and secondary materials, this study fills a gap in the history of women, of sport, and of education."

Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women
Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women

Author: Kathleen E. McCrone

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1040279562

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First published in 1988. This study can be situated within the history of women, women’s education, women’s rights, sport, leisure and recreation. Its aim is not to establish or submit to review what is known or thought to be known about the Victorian world-view and woman’s place within it, but rather to investigate reactions against this view and the emergence of a counter-view through sport and exercise. An attempt is made to rescue the English sportswoman from the obscuring mists of the past, to discuss her as a transitional figure between opposing views of womanhood and to place her within the context of the general movement for the emancipation of women as an important effect and cause — without necessarily assuming what women’s status in sport and in society should have been.

Encyclopedia of International Games
Encyclopedia of International Games

Author: Daniel Bell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 1476615276

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The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well known international multisport gathering--but since 1896, hundreds of other competitions based on the Olympic Games model have been established whose histories have not been well documented. The Encyclopedia of International Games captures (in one alphabetical sequence) the histories of these games, many of them for the first time. The work includes major regional events such as the African, Asian, Arab, South Pacific, and Pan American Games; competitions such as the Indian Ocean Island Games, Arctic Winter Games, Island Games, and Games of the Small Countries of Europe; specific populations or professions such as the North American Indigenous Games, Maccabiah Games, World Military Games, World Police and Fire Games, and World Medical and Health Games; and Special Olympics, the Paralympics, games for the blind, and other regional games. Eight appendices, notes, bibliography, index.

Class
Class

Author: Jane Beaton

Publisher: Sphere

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0751567698

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'Just like Malory Towers for grown-ups' Sophie Kinsella The first book in The Little School by the Sea series - the perfect escape for anyone who ever dreamed of going to boarding school ___________________ It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark - but will it be at the expense of her relationship with safe, dependable Stan? Simone has won a scholarship and wants to make her parents proud. Forced to share a room with the glossy, pretty, clever girls of Downey House, she needs to find a friend, fast. Fliss is furious at being sent away from her home. As Simone tries desperately to fit in, Fliss tries desperately to get out. Over the course of one year, friendships will bloom and lives will be changed forever. ___________________ "A brilliant boarding school book, stuffed full of unforgettable characters, thrilling adventures and angst..." Lisa Jewell

The Spectator
The Spectator

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 1160

ISBN-13:

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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Physical Education and Sport in Independent Schools
Physical Education and Sport in Independent Schools

Author: Malcolm Tozer

Publisher: John Catt Educational Ltd

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 190809544X

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A collection of chapters investigating the important role played by PE and sport in independent schools, from contributors including former Olympic medallists Roger Black and Jonathan Edwards, Rugby World Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward and Baroness Campbell, Chair of UK Sport. Edited by Dr Malcolm Tozer, former director of PE and housemaster at Uppingham School.

23 Ways to Get to First Base
23 Ways to Get to First Base

Author: Gary Belsky

Publisher: Gary Belsky

Published: 2007-05-29

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781933060101

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Written for the fan who needs to know it all, 23 Ways to Get to First Base is the first comprehensive collection of on-the-tip-of-your-tongue sports knowledge that's sure to become must-have reading and the ultimate bar-bet referee. 23 Ways to Get to First Base explores the true operating system of sports, the facts and figures, dates and data that fans think they know or wish they did. It's a one-of-a-kind potpourri of sports information, presented in an entertaining and visually arresting assortment of lists, charts, graphs, time lines, and short narratives, including: --All eight positions in Abbott & Costello's classic "Who's on First" routine --Every sports-related phobia --The full text of Bill Murray's "Cinderella Story" speech from Caddyshack --The name of every athlete who has guest-starred on The Simpsons --And, of course, the 23 ways a baseball player can safely reach first base