First published in 2004. This five-volume major work is a comprehensive collection of primary sources which examine changing attitudes to sport in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sport had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including Blackwood's Magazine, Nineteenth Century, Fortnightly Review and Contemporary Review, which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sport. The five volumes cover the varieties of sport being promoted, sport and education, commercial and financial aspects of sport, sport and animals and the globalization of sport through empire. Volume I includes the Varieties of Sport.
Volume I: The Varieties of Sport Part 1: Sport, Recreation, and Society 1. Besant, W., Amusements of the people, Contemporary Review, vol. 45, March 1884, pp.342-53 2. Anon, Modern mannish maidens, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 147, February 1890, pp.252-64 3. Jeune, M., Amusements of the poor, National Review, vol. 21, May 1893, pp.303-14 4. Gambier-Perry, E., Sport and sportsmen, New Review, vol. 11, September 1894, pp.309-19 5. Anon, The poetry of sport, Quarterly Review, vol. 185, April 1897, pp.433-47 6. Gilkes, A.H., The worship of athletics, National Review, vol. 30, September 1897, pp.77-81 7. Graves, H., A philosophy of sport, Contemporary Review, vol. 78, 1900, pp.877-93 8. Aflalo, F.G., The sportswoman, Fortnightly Review, vol. 83, 1905, pp.891-903 9. Aflalo, F.G., The sportsman, Fortnightly Review, vol., 1907, pp.155-67 10. Monckton, O. Paul, Little known sports and pastimes, Contemporary Review, vol. 1000, October 1911, pp.551-60 Part 2: Team Sports 11. Dykes, T., Yacht racing, Fortnightly Review, vol. 38, August 1885, pp.193-202 12. Anon, The popular pastime cricket, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 140, December 1886, pp.755-63 13. Hutchinson, H., Cricket v. golf a comparison, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 147, April 1890 14. Spofforth, F.R., English cricket and cricketers: a retrospect, New Review, vol. 10. May 1894, pp.626-36 15. Lyttelton, R.H. , W.G., New Review, vol. 13, August 1895, pp.129-36 16. Anon, Our village eleven, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 159, April 1896, pp. 581-91 17. Hutchinson, H., The modern pentathlum, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 2, June 1897, pp.784-93 18. Ranjitsinhji, Cricket and the Victorian era, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 162, July 1897, pp.1-16 19. Jessop, G., Some hints to young bowlers, National Review, vol. 33, April 1899, pp.239-45 20. Abell, H.F., The football fever, Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 89, 1904, pp.276-82 21. MacFarlane, H., Football of yesterday and today: a comparison, Monthly Review, vol. 25, 1906, pp.129-38 22. Trevor, P., The future of cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol., 1906, pp.526-35 23. Creed, P., Polo, Fortnightly Review, vol. 86, 1909, pp.1092-1102 24. Sewell, E.H.D., Rugby football, Fortnightly Review, vol. 85, May 1909, pp.978-89 25. Gordon, H., Problems of contemporary cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol, 1911, pp.175-79 26. Sewell, E.H.D., The state of the game, Fortnightly Review, 1911, pp.933-48 Part 3: Individual Sports 27. Osborn, R., Lawn tennis
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