Old English Sports
Title | Old English Sports PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick William Hackwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Sports |
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Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs
Title | Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs PDF eBook |
Author | P. H. Ditchfield |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2019-12-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs" is a historical treatise on the various sports and games that have been played in England over the centuries. The book aims to describe, in simple language, the holiday festivals as they occurred in each month of the year; and the sports, games, pastimes, and customs associated with these rural feasts. The games were those played most in the English villages and the author hopes to rekindle interest in what he terms, "the best features of old village life." English customs such as exchanging gifts on New Year's Day, fox hunts in February, Easter and Christmas traditions, as well as different country dances and sports.
Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs
Title | Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hampson Ditchfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Amusements |
ISBN |
The Evolution of English Sport
Title | The Evolution of English Sport PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Wigglesworth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 113630651X |
This 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.
British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000
Title | British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cox |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2013-12-16 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 113528721X |
Volume one 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.
The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: The varieties of sport
Title | The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: The varieties of sport PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Polley |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780415231374 |
This five volume set is a comprehensive collection of primary sources on sports in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sports had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Specialist Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including "Blackwood's Magazine,"" Nineteenth Century," "Fortnightly Review" and "Contemporary Review," all of which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sports. The five volumes cover the varieties of sports being promoted, sports and education, commercial and financial aspects, sports and animals and the globalization of sports through empire.
This Sporting Life
Title | This Sporting Life PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Colls |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192575015 |
Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport as one of England's great civil cultures. The lived experiences of people from all walks of life are reclaimed to tell England's history through its great sporting cultures, from the horseback pursuits of the wealthy and politically connected, to the street games in working-class neighbourhoods which needed nothing but a ball. It observes people at play, describes how they felt and thought, carries the reader along to a match or a hunt or a fight, draws out the sounds and smells of humans and animals, showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.