Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… with the examples of cricket and horse-racing. Practices > Associational culture Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Colonies Gambling Gaming Horseracing Rules Sports Cricket While the game of cricket had become popular in the first half … Countess of Derby and Other Ladies', Tate, collection Marylebone Cricket Club, T03031, 1779. Cricket was played in the colonies, with mentions of games in Aleppo in 1676, and in the West Indies early in the nineteenth century, as well as in … Image Legend (After) Robert Dighton, 'A Deep One and a Knowing One', The British Museum, 2010,7081.948, 1791. In the colonies, the Maryland Jockey Club was founded in 1743 in Annapolis, and is possibly the oldest sporting club in North …
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