Sports History and Modern British History

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Notes

1. Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005), 20.

2. Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005), 2, 18–19.

3. Synthia Sydnor, ‘A History of Synchronised Swimming’, Journal of Sport History 25, no. 2, (1998): 252–67; see also Booth, The Field, 206–7.

4. S.W. Pope and John Nauright ‘Introduction’, in Routledge Companion to Sports History, eds S.W. Pope and John Nauright (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), 3–4.

5. Martin Johnes, ‘Great Britain’, in Routledge Companion to Sports History, 445.

6. Mike Cronin cited in Pope and Nauright, ‘Introduction’, 5.

7. Dave Russell, ‘Introduction’, Manchester Region History Review 20 (2009): ix.

8. Tony Mason, Association Football and English Society 1863–1915 (Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1981); for a recent assessment of its historiographic significance see Jeffrey Hill, Sport in History: An Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 4–5.

9. Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 12. See also Booth, The Field, 68–9.

10. Ross McKibbin, Classes and Cultures: England 1918–1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 332–85.

11. E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980 edn), 12.

12. G.R. Searle, A New England? Peace and War 1886–1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 112–14, 545–53; Johnes, ‘Great Britain’, 455.

13. Searle, A New England?, 552.

14. Martin Daunton, Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851–1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 438–47.

15. Searle, A New England?, 114; Holt, Sport and the British, 115.

16. Daunton, Wealth and Welfare, 440.

17. Martin Pugh, We Danced All Night: a Social History of Britain between the Wars (London: The Bodley Head, 2008), 296.

18. R.C.K. Ensor, England 1870–1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936), 136–71.

19. Daunton, Wealth and Welfare, 419.

20. Searle, A New England?, 529–31.

21. Pugh, We Danced All Night, 286–7, 292–3.

22. Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History (London: HarperPress, 2010), 690–5; see also Pugh, We Danced All Night, 253–4.

23. Gardiner, The Thirties, 697. The mushroom growth of greyhound racing and speedway is covered succinctly in the section on ‘New Sports’ in Mike Huggins and Jack Williams, Sport and the English, 1918–1939 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006), 64–8.

24. Gardiner, The Thirties, 698–707; Pugh, We Danced All Night, 297–301.

25. McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, 371–7.

26. See Gardiner, The Thirties, 707.

27. Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (London: Allen Lane, 2006), 87–98.

28. Brian Harrison, Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951–1970 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 383–402.

29. Harrison, Seeking a Role, 595.

30. Martin Polley, Moving the Goalposts: a HIstory of Sport and Society since 1945 (London: Routledge, 1998), 5.

31. Harrison, Seeking a Role, 385.

32. Pugh, We Danced All Night, 422–5.

33. Paul Addison, No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 65–6.

34. Harrison, Seeking a Role, 226–7, 387.

35. See Alwyn W. Turner, Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s (London: Aurum Press, 2008), 3–6.

36. David Kynaston, Austerity Britain 1945–51 (London: Bloomsbury, 2007), 93.

37. Kynaston, Austerity Britain, 293.

38. Harry Hopkins, The New Look: a Social History of the Forties and Fifties in Britain (London: Secker and Warburg, 1964), 105–6.

39. Halifax Daily Courier, 7 May 1954, cited in David Kynaston, Family Britain, 1951–57 (London: Bloomsbury, 2009), 386.

40. See Kynaston, Family Britain, 400–1, citing Swanton's article in the Daily Telegraph, July 12, 1954.

41. Kynaston, Family Britain, 389.

42. Kynaston, Austerity Britain, 94, 265, 582; idem, Family Britain, 465.

43. See Dannie Abse, Goodbye Twentieth Century: An Autobiography (London: Pimlico, 2001), 313.

44. Kynaston, Family Britain, 189–90.

45. Dominic Sandbrook, Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain: From Suez to the Beatles (London: Little Brown, 2005), xxi.

46. Dominic Sandbrook, White Heat: a History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties (London: Little Brown, 2006), 305–9.

47. Harrison, Seeking a Role, 387.

48. Sandbrook, White Heat, 311–25.

49. Sandbrook, White Heat, 784.

50. Harrison, Seeking a Role, 750.

51. Dominic Sandbrook, State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970–1974 (London: Allen Lane, 2010), 573.

52. Sandbrook, State of Emergency, 544.

53. Sandbrook, State of Emergency, 561–2.

54. Sandbrook, State of Emergency, 554–65; Holt, Sport and the British, 326–43.

55. Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?, 125.

56. Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?, 99.

57. Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?, 213–4.

58. For snooker see Alwyn Turner, Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s (London: Aurum Press, 2010), 136–41.

59. Jack Williams, Cricket and Broadcasting (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), 1.