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Swimming Communities in Victorian England (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Swimming Communities in Victorian England (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book explores how different constituencies influenced the
development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and
highlights the central role played by swimming professors. These
professionals were influential in inspiring participation in
swimming, particularly among women, well before the amateur
community created the Amateur Swimming Association, and this volume
outlines some key life-courses to illustrate their working
practices. Female exhibitors were important to professors and
chapter three discusses these natationists and their impact on
women's swimming. Subsequent chapters address the employment
opportunities afforded by new swimming baths and the amateur
community that formed clubs and a national organization, which
excluded swimming professors, many of whom subsequently worked
successfully abroad. Dave Day and Margaret Roberts argue that the
critical role played by professors in developing swimming has been
forgotten, and suggest that their story is a reminder that
individuals were just as important to the foundation of modern
sport as the formation of amateur organizations.
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