2280 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
VOLUME I The Varieties of Sport, VOLUME II Sport, Education, and Improvement, VOLUME III Field Sports, VOLUME IV Sport and Money, VOLUME V British Sport and the Wider World
Biography
Martin Polley
