Was Sport and the British a Foundational Text? The View of the Next Generation

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Notes

1. Wray Vamplew, The Turf: A Social and Economic History of Horse Racing (London: Allen Lane, 1976).

2. Peter Bailey, Leisure and Class in Victorian England: Rational Recreation and the Contest for Control, 1830–1885 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978).

3. Tony Mason, Association Football and English Society, 1863–1915 (Brighton: Harvester, 1980).

4. J.A. Mangan, Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

5. John Hargreaves, Sport, Power and Culture: A Social and Historical Analysis of Popular Sports in Britain (Cambridge: Polity, 1986).

6. Stephen Jones, Workers at Play: A Social and Economic History of Leisure, 1918–1939(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986); Sport, Politics and the Working Class: Organised Labour and Sport in Interwar Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988).

7. Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 3.

8. See Alan P. Scott, ‘Talking About Music is Like Dancing About Architecture’, available online at http://www.paclink.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm.

9. Quotations taken from Holt, Sport and the British, 52, 99 and 297.

10. Holt, Sport and the British, 3.

11. Holt, Sport and the British, 8.

12. Richard Holt, ‘Introduction’, in Sport and the Working Class, ed. Richard Holt (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), 1.