HUGGINS Mike

Emeritus Professor

Institute of the Arts, University of Cumbria

Research expertise

Sport and leisure history of Britain from 1600 to 1960s.

Contributions

Pratiques

Horseracing

Racing, Britain’s first proto-modern, widely-followed national sport, opens a window into wider sociability and cultural life. The annual race week created an important urban social space, involving both public and private sociability, attracting racehorse owners and gamblers; men and women; the country and towns-folk; and elite, middling and proletariat groups.