Popular Recreations in English Society 1700-1850

Popular Recreations in English Society 1700-1850
Author: Robert W. Malcolmson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1973
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521295956

Professor Malcolmson provides a full account of the sports, pastimes and festive celebrations of the English labouring people in the eighteenth century.

Football: The First Hundred Years

Football: The First Hundred Years
Author: Adrian Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1134269129

The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of the game, challenging previously widely-accepted beliefs. Harvey argues that established football history does not correspond with the facts. Football, as played by the 'masses' prior to the adoption of the public school codes is almost always portrayed as wild and barbaric. This view may require considerable modification in the light of Harvey's research. Football's First One Hundred Years provides a very detailed picture of the football played outside the confines of the public schools, revealing a culture that was every bit as sophisticated and influential as that found within their prestigious walls. Football, The First Hundred Years sets forth a completely revisionist thesis, offering a different perspective on almost every aspect of the established history of the formative years of the game. The book will be of great interest to sports historians and football enthusiasts alike.

Spaces of Consumption

Spaces of Consumption
Author: Jon Stobart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136021108

Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related together through the spaces of the town: the shop, the theatre and the street. Using this fresh form of analysis, it has much to say about sociability, politeness and respectability in the eighteenth century.

Football

Football
Author: Adrian Harvey
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780415350181

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