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.