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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… best-organized, best-supported, most high-status, best-publicized and increasingly commercial sporting activity across England and parts of Scotland and Wales. In many towns the ‘Race Week’ became a destination event in the annual … Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) 5 . Richard Nash, ‘The Sport of Kingmakers: Horse Racing in Late Stuart England’, International journal of the History of Sport (37, 3, 2020), p.304-322. At Newmarket the Jockey Club … Urban Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) Edwards, Peter, Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle in Early Modern England ( Rochester, N.-Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2018) Huggins, Mike, Horse Racing and British Society in the Long …
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… of Waterloo. 11 . ‘To your Lordship, who has gloriously contributed in person to earn the most splendid laurels for England, it mus be well known, that no soldiers or sailors, from one end of the globe to the other, show so much mercy to … in appearance, and sacred to the Fancy ! (Hazlitt, ‘The Fight’, 1) 14 . William Hazlitt, ‘The Fight’[1822], and ‘Merry England’ [1825], in A. R. Waller and Arnold Glovers (eds), The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, vol. 12, (London: J. … can be high spirits without low ones; and every thing has its price according to circumstances (William Hazlitt, ‘Merry England’, 16). Boxing, with its winners and losers, its codes and its brutal violence, its public made of ruffians and …
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… played around the country with different rules. From the second half of the eighteenth century, cricket grew throughout England being recorded, according to Bowen, in thirty-one counties by the end of the century. The first Laws were drawn … in January 1765. Horse-racing While horse-racing had been in existence for a long time, it really started to develop in England in the seventeenth century. It became an organised sport during the reign of James I. The king paid frequent … Anne visited Newmarket frequently, and founded Royal Ascot in 1711, on the edge of Windsor Great Park. Racing spread in England in the first half of the eighteenth century and races were held everywhere, thus calling for rules and …
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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… and sustainable field sport with national appeal had been created, and foxhunting’s position as ‘the only chace in England worthy of the taste or attention of a high bred sportsman’ was undeniable. 9 9 . William A. Osbaldiston, The …
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