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ByMartin Polley

The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: Sport, education, and improvement

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This five volume set is a comprehensive collection of primary sources on sports in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sports had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Specialist Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including |Blackwood's Magazine,|| Nineteenth Century,| |Fortnightly Review| and |Contemporary Review,| all of which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sports. The five volumes cover the varieties of sports being promoted, sports and education, commercial and financial aspects, sports and animals and the globalization of sports through empire.

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