The Boys' Club

The Boys' Club
Author: Michael Warner
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 073364497X

The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of AFL, Australia's biggest sport. Revealing how the fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the land, award-winning investigative journalist Mick Warner delivers a fascinating insight into key figures and their networks. Tracking the rise of the game and the AFL figureheads, The Boys' Club lifts the lid on the scandals, secrets and deal making that have shaped the Australian game.

Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940

Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940
Author: K. Boyd
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2002-11-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230597181

In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form shaped ideas about gender, race, class and empire in response to social change. This study is an important analysis of a neglected part of popular culture.

Winged Warfare

Winged Warfare
Author: Michael Paris
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719036941

This original study provides a significant reinterpretation of the development of air power in Britain, highlighting how in the period before 1914 aerial warfare was already becoming an increasingly forceful concept.