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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Animals Elite Hunting Sports Women Hunting had been the foremost recreation of British kings, nobles and elites since the middle ages, yet the hunting … sportsmen. One final development in the world of eighteenth-century hunting worth noting is the gradual exclusion of women, for the development of new forms of foxhunting not only made an old pastime more elitist, it also appears to have … any detailed discussion of female hunting in the medieval and early modern periods, though it is well known that women did ride to hounds throughout this period. Records of poaching in the royal forests indicate that women were …
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Boxiana (1821) [ Practices ]
… a fair, or any other public sight, it might be asked, in answer, where bad characters are not to be seen? Thieves and women of the town are to be found in churches. Neither is there any valid objection to the philosophy of prize-fighting …
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… particular. Piggott’s pamphlet is consonant with his support for the French Revolution. He pursued such attacks, against women of the aristocracy, in The Female Jockey Club , or A Sketch of the Manners of the Age (1794). Image Legend (After) …
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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… by suggesting that boxing is, at least, far from the usual hypocrisy concerning gentlemanly past-times. As ‘thieves and women of the town are to be found in churches’, and as gentlemen ‘lay wagers on the election of any particular parson’, …
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