The English Squire and His Sport
Author: Roger Longrigg
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 312
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Author: Roger Longrigg
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Wigglesworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 113630651X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work uses original material from clubs and sporting organizations to illuminate the evolution of sporting activity nation-wide. It relates these documents to themes such as commercialism and club fortunes. It concludes by discussing the outlook for English sport.
Author: Jeremy Paxman
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 2001-10-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1468303589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph). A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while others try to forge a new relationship with Europe. What exactly sets the English apart from their British compatriots? Is there such a thing as an English race? Renowned journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Paxman traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the twenty-first century. “Paxman’s irrepressibly witty bit of Anglo scholarship offers stirring insights.” —Vanity Fair
Author: Richard William Cox
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780714652504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 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.
Author: Neil Wigglesworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-03-12
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1134259948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives a fascinating history of the English experience of sport, following its development through the centuries from its earliest beginnings in social play and pastimes, via its adoption as an alternative to the clock-watching routine of urban life, to its modern incarnation as a global business. Key themes and issues in the evolution of sport are examined, including: social structures, such as the division between amateurs and professionals the growth of the popular press and the influence of television the post-war emergence of sports ‘welfarism’ and ‘sport for all’ globalization and commercialization. Looking ahead to the future, the author asks whether our sports experience is turning full circle, and if in the twenty-first century we are returning to a forgotten view of sport as a pastime and recreation.
Author: Gerald Morris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0547014384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter several years at King Arthur's court, Terence, as Sir Gawain's squire and friend, accompanies him on a perilous quest that tests all their skills and whose successful completion could mean certain death for Gawain.
Author: Emma Griffin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780300116281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly a decade of divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with the passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. But the battle over the future of hunting is not yet resolved, and polarizing right-or-wrong debates continue undiminished. This book recounts the history of hunting in Britain and offers a fresh perspective on conflicts.
Author: John Randall (F.G.S.)
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-14
Total Pages: 4340
ISBN-13: 1351624814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.
Author: Mr Adrian Harvey
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-06-28
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1409479528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany historians have described early industrial Britain as a 'bleak age' where the masses possessed little time, energy or money to devote to sport. Adrian Harvey reveals a very different picture of Britain at this time to show a rich, diverse and commercial sporting culture accessible to almost everyone. Far from being tied to a recreational calendar that was dependent upon established, traditional holidays, sporting events occurred within their own leisure timetable. Indeed, by the 1840s, it was common for sporting events to be conducted on a regular basis every week. Harvey demonstrates how newspapers and periodicals began to recognize that sport had the capacity to capture the public's imagination, and the importance of the spectating audience transformed the staging of events into a major source of revenue. The increasing amount of money involved in sport created a situation in which the participants were often unable to regulate and administer activity, especially as they were confronted with instances of substantial corruption and fraud. The public perception of activity in many sports changed dramatically, with the existence of professionals expanding and the social elite withdrawing from the various roles that they had previously performed as organizers, supervisors and competitors. This is the first in-depth study of sporting culture in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century that is based upon sporting periodicals, newspapers and sporting archives. Harvey depicts a society that is not suffering from a severe attack on recreations by commerce, industry and government, but one in which the principal problems experienced stemmed from criminal activity. As such, this book provides a much-needed revision of many misconceptions about the early history of sport in Britain.