Author: Arthur Capel Molyneux CroomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools
Author: Arthur Capel Molyneux CroomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools: Eton, Harrow and Winchester
Author: Arthur Capel Molyneux CroomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
British Sport: Local histories
Author: Richard William CoxPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714652511
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
A Social History of English Rugby Union
Author: Tony CollinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134023340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an impressive array of sources from club minutes to personal memoirs and contemporary literature, the book explores in vivid detail the key events, personalities and players that have made English rugby. From an era of rapid growth at the end of the nineteenth century, through the terrible losses suffered during the First World War and the subsequent ‘rush to rugby’ in the public and grammar schools, and into the periods of disorientation and commercialisation in the 1960s through to the present day, the story of English rugby union is also the story of the making of modern England. Like all the very best writers on sport, Tony Collins uses sport as a prism through which to better understand both culture and society. A ground-breaking work of both social history and sport history, A Social History of English Rugby Union tells a fascinating story of sporting endeavour, masculine identity, imperial ideology, social consciousness and the nature of Englishness.
The imperial game
Author: Brian StoddartPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526123827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Sports history offers many profound insights into the character and complexities of modern imperial rule. This book examines the fortunes of cricket in various colonies as the sport spread across the British Empire. It helps to explain why cricket was so successful, even in places like India, Pakistan and the West Indies where the Anglo-Saxon element remained in a small minority. The story of imperial cricket is really about the colonial quest for identity in the face of the colonisers' search for authority. The cricket phenomenon was established in nineteenth-century England when the Victorians began glorifying the game as a perfect system of manners, ethics and morals. Cricket has exemplified the colonial relationship between England and Australia and expressed imperialist notions to the greatest extent. In the study of the transfer of imperial cultural forms, South Africa provides one of the most fascinating case studies. From its beginnings in semi-organised form through its unfolding into a contemporary internationalised structure, Caribbean cricket has both marked and been marked by a tight affiliation with complex social processing in the islands and states which make up the West Indies. New Zealand rugby demonstrates many of the themes central to cricket in other countries. While cricket was played in India from 1721 and the Calcutta Cricket Club is probably the second oldest cricket club in the world, the indigenous population was not encouraged to play cricket.
The Harrow School Register, 1845-1925. Second Series...
Author: Harrow SchoolFifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools
Author: Arthur Capel Molyneux CroomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Reverend ES Carter: A Yorkshire Cricketing Cleric
Author: Anthony BradburyPublisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
ISBN: 191242102X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A People's Collector in the British Raj
Author: Brian StoddartPublisher: Readworthy
ISBN: 9350180413
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description