1st Edition

The History of Sport in Britain 1880-1914 V4

Edited By Martin Polley Copyright 2004
512 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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