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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]

… Résumé Sporting clubs appeared in the eighteenth century as sports were beginning to organise. They emerged from the more informal gatherings in social places of individuals brought … 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 the most popular sports in the eighteenth century, this entry is concerned chiefly with the examples of cricket and horse-racing.   …

Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]

… vocabulary of older hunting practices and was transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés sports pastimes hunting culture Women Hunting had been the foremost recreation of British kings, nobles and elites since … the hare.  From humble origins, foxhunting was rapidly becoming a high status pursuit, attracting fashionable, moneyed sportsmen. One final development in the world of eighteenth-century hunting worth noting is the gradual exclusion of …

Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]

… nationales. Nous nous intéresserons ici aux pratiques qui firent d’Ascot un lieu à la mode. Practices > Games & Sports Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés sports horseracing Ascot Travelogues pastimes Gambling Fashion culture Urban life Origines, évolutions et architecture …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… and to cultivate a disciplined violence useful to maintain a pugilistic spirit in times of peace. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés prize-fighting pugilism sports manliness rules Englishness Pierce Egan Cobbett Mendoza Humphreys William Hazlitt Thomas Moore The popularity of … battlefield, why not a prize-fighter in the boxing ring? And indeed, Pierce Egan (1772-1849) popularized the genre of sports writing thanks to a muscular style, blending ‘inventive imagery and linguistic exuberance’. 9  Egan, in keeping …

Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]

… attractions, from assemblies, theatres, balls, eating and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism.   Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés sports culture status Urban life Women Horse racing had a prominent place amongst the new forms of human sociability and … in contemporary financial markets. High-staking elite gamblers could be vulnerable. Avoiding dishonesty helped shape the sports rules and behaviours.   Getting one over on the opposition sometimes led to accusations that owners, grooms, …

Gambling [ Games & Sports ]

… applies to games of chance, while gambling is found in games involving skills such as card games, tennis or wagers on sports. Throughout the period, various gambling practices were associated with sociable behaviours and values, especially … of gambling lies in the fact that it defined a form of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Gaming Cards Dice Gentleman Clubs Duelling Suicide Vice Charles James Fox Duchess of Devonshire From the … applies to games of chance, while gambling is found in games involving skills such as card games, tennis or wagers on sports. Like other writers, we consider in this entry gambling only when it applies to games such as card games, dice, …