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Author:   Tony Collins
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780415850810

ISBN 10:   0415850819
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   31 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. ‘An Excellent Means of Combining Fresh Air, Exercise and Society’ Females on the Fairways, 1890-1914 2. Still Going After All These Years: Text, Truth and the Racing Calendar 3. The Proto-Globalisation of Horseracing 1730-1900: Anglo-American Interconnections 4. What Went Wrong with Counting? Thinking about Sport and Class in Britain and Ireland 5. Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today 6. The Tyranny of Deference: Anglo-Australian Relations and Rugby Union before World War Two 7. Boxers United: Trade Unionism in British Boxing in the 1930s 8. Deeply Honoured: The Rise and Significance of the British Sporting Award, 1945-c.1970 9. ‘In a Yorkshire Like Way’: Cricket and the Construction of Regional Identity in Nineteenth Century Yorkshire 10. ‘Egg and Chips with the Connellys’: Remembering 1966 11. Wray Vamplew: A Bibliography 1969-2008

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Tony Collins is Professor of the Social History of Sport at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. As well as writing a trilogy on the history of rugby - Rugby’s Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain and A Social History of English Rugby Union - he has also worked with Wray Vamplew on the Encyclopedia of Traditional Rural Sports (all published by Routledge) and Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol.

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