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Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain: A Social and Cultural History book cover

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Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain A Social and Cultural History

By Tony Collins Copyright 2006
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league. This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the Super League in the 1990s, through war, depression, boom and deindustrialisation, into a new economic and... Read more
Introduction: the origins of rugby league 1 Rugby league and the First World War 2 League on the dole? The game in the depression years 3 Masters and servants: the professional player 1919–39 4 Wembley and the road from Wigan Pier 5 Rugby league in the ‘People’s War’ 6 From boom to bust 1945–70 7 ‘Chess with muscles’: the rules of the game 8 The Kangaroo connection: Anglo-Australian rugby league 9 ‘Sporting apartheid’: rugby union’s war against rugby league 10 The working-man’s game: class, gender and race 11 The other amateurs: beyond the heartlands 12 From slump to Super League 1975–95 13 A proletariat at play

Biography

Tony Collins is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University,Leicester,UK and editor of the jour□nal Sport in History. His publications include the award-winning Rugby’s Great Split

'It is only a slight exaggeration to say that this is the book rugby league has needed for the past 111 years.' -  The Independent, September 2006

'There is no doubt that Tony Collins's Rugby League in 20th Century Britain is the major [sports] publishing event of the year. Treasures lurk on every page to make it worth every penny.' - Independent

'A landmark in the historiography of British sport', Matthew Taylor, Sport in History

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