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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