Sport and the British and British Cultural Studies

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Notes

1. Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

2. Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-class Life with Special Reference to Publications and Entertainments (London: Chatto and Windus, 1957); Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780–1950 (London: Harmondsworth, 1961 [orig. pub. 1958]); E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963).

3. Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, 91–2.

4. John Hughson, The Making of Sporting Cultures (London: Routledge, 2009), 56.

5. Alun Munslow, Deconstructing History (London: Routledge, 1997); Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History (London: Routledge, 2005).

6. Booth, The Field, 49.

7. For example, see the discussion of association football, Holt, Sport and the British, 174.

8. Raymond Williams, Long Revolution (London: Chatto and Windus, 1961), 337. Ernst Fischer, The Necessity of Art (London, 2010 [1963]), 79.

9. Holt, Sport and the British, 172––3.

10. Holt, Sport and the British, 165.