The History of Sport in Britain 1880-1914 V2Martin Polley Routledge, 24 déc. 2021 - 480 pages First published in 2004. This five-volume major work is a comprehensive collection of primary sources which examine changing attitudes to sport 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 sport had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including Blackwood's Magazine, Nineteenth Century, Fortnightly Review and Contemporary Review, which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sport. The five volumes cover the varieties of sport being promoted, sport and education, commercial and financial aspects of sport, sport and animals and the globalization of sport through empire. Volume 2 includes sport, education and improvement. |
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... crews equals the number of those who used to watch the actual race ; moreover , the minutest facts connected with the play of each oarsman's muscles are anxiously picked up on the spot , form a paragraph in the daily papers , and are ...
... crew . As for neatness , it may be doubted whether a crew on long slides will ever look as neat as did a crew on short slides , just as a crew on short slides was inferior in this respect to a crew on fixed seats . But it is certainly ...
... crew and his college , must have a great and enduring effect upon a man's character , and must in any case , I should hope , qualify him well to play his part in life as a good citizen . I may be charged with presumption in rating my ...
... crew for the race which followed . The result , I take it , depended more on luck than on merit . Another account relates how a crew would go down to practise , and how the coxswain , on seeing a rival crew , would blow a horn as a ...
... crew rises a place in the rowing scale , and is inspired for fresh triumphs on succeeding nights . But to be bumped is literally to be degraded ; it is defeat accompanied by loss of place , and the consequences remain for the following ...