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More Than a Game

David Horspool
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  • ISBN 9781529363289
  • Weight: 228g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jun 2024
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PINSENT MASONS SPORTS WRITING AWARD

A Times Best Sports Book of 2023

'Fascinating' Daily Telegraph

'Lively, rich and readable' The Spectator

'Thoughtful and entertaining' Guardian
'Completely eye-opening - every page contains a gem' Marina Hyde

The remarkable stories of how sport shaped the British people.

The history of Britain is inseparable from our love affair with sport. Many of our most dramatic social shifts have played out in sporting arenas: cricket and class mobility, rugby and regional rivalry, tennis and gender equality, golf and battles for land, boxing and race-relations. The sporting theatre has even accelerated radical change via heroes including independence fighters, suffragettes and Jewish bare-knuckle boxers crashing the established order. From jousting between kingdoms to the rise of the Commonwealth Games at the end of the imperial era, More Than a Game is the fascinating account of the games, players and audiences that have defined Britain's past.
About David Horspool
David Horspool is an editor on the Times Literary Supplement, responsible for history, archaeology and sport. His most recent book is Cromwell: The Protector, for the Penguin Monarchs series. He is the author of Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation, Alfred the Great, The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Troublemaking from the Normans to the Nineties, and a co-author, with Arthony Arnove and Colin Firth, of The People Speak: Voices that Changed Britain. He contributes to the TLS, Guardian and The Spectator, and writes a monthly history column for the Oldie magazine. He is married with two sons and lives in London.

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