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championship
class and leisure analysis
county
County Cricket
County Cricket Clubs
cricket
Cricket Clubs
Dorothy Round
English identity in twentieth century sport
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Fa Cup Final
Field Events
Football Association
gender and sport studies
greyhound
Greyhound Racing
Greyhound Stadium
Henry Cotton
interwar British society
Lawn Tennis
league
LTA
media representation of athletes
moral codes in athletics
Mrs Moore
National Playing Fields Association
NGRC
racing
rugby
Rugby Football
Rugby League
social history of sport
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Test Matches
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Women's Amateur Athletic Association
Women's Cricket
Women’s Amateur Athletic Association
Women’s Cricket
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415331845
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central place of sport in English life is brought into sharp focus, providing insight into issues of gender, class, religion and locality, ideas of morality, continuity and change, and what it meant to be English during this pivotal time.
Themes include:
- the nature of sport and its place in national life
- how sport was portrayed in the media and through the sports stars of the age
- tradition and change in sport and in society
- gaining meaning from sport: the pursuit of pleasure, a moral code, and ideas of Englishness
- class, social conflict and social cohesion.
This original and lucid study is ideal for students of sport and social history, and anyone with an interest in the social role of sport.
St Martin's College, Lancaster, UK Formerly of Liverpool John Moores University, UK
