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Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… Further Reading Boddy, Kasia, Boxing: A Cultural History (London: Reaktion Books, 2008). Downing, Karen, ‘The Gentleman Boxer: Boxing, Manners, and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century England’, Men … useful to maintain a pugilistic spirit in times of peace. … Boddy, Kasia, Boxing: A Cultural History (London: Reaktion Books, 2008). Downing, Karen, ‘The Gentleman Boxer: Boxing, Manners, and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century England’, Men …
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The Sporting Magazine (1793) [ Practices ]
… sold by J. Wheble, o. 18. Warwick Square, Warwick Lane, near St. Paul's, 1793. Transcribed by Alain Kerhervé from Google Books . … The Sporting Magazine (1793) …
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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… with the fox’s blood – was also developed. So too was a complex vocabulary of hunting terms, and the sporting hand books provided their readers with long lists of the correct technical terms for each aspect of the hunt, just as the …
Animals | Elite | Hunting | Sports | Women
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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… ‘betting post’, with known acquaintances, offering and accepting odds and amounts staked, noting them in memorandum books, and settling them at a later time. But regular owners and gamblers wanted to increase the size of the betting …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
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