Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… up a gavel, and a woman hits a man over the head with a tankard', Wellcome Collection, 32405i, 1789. Résumé Sporting clubs appeared in the eighteenth century as sports were beginning to organise. They emerged from the more informal … which this sport made possible. Coffee houses and inns were popular places in the eighteenth century, and some sporting clubs started their lives in such establishments as The Star and Garter Inn. Although sporting clubs are usually associated with the organisation of sports, they were primarily social clubs. Because they were some of …
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