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England's Revelry - A History of Popular Sports and Pastimes, 1660-1830 (Hardcover, New)
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England's Revelry - A History of Popular Sports and Pastimes, 1660-1830 (Hardcover, New)
Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
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This study looks at the relationship between popular recreations
and the spaces in which they took place, and in doing so it
provides a history of how England enjoyed itself during the long
eighteenth century. Because the poor lacked land of their own,
public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes. Such
recreations included: parish wakes and feasts; civic fairs and
celebrations; football, cricket and other athletic sports; bull-
and bear-baiting; and the annual celebrations of Shrove Tuesday and
Guy Fawkes. Three case studies form the core of this book, each
looking at the recreations and spaces to be found in different
types of settlement: first, the streets and squares of provincial
market towns; then the diverse vacant spaces to be found in
industrialising towns and villages of the west Midlands and West
Riding of Yorkshire; and finally the village greens of rural
England. Through a detailed examination of contemporary books,
diaries and newspapers, and records in over forty archives, Dr
Griffin addresses the questions of what spaces were used, and what
was the interaction with those who used and controlled the land.
The industrial revolution has been seen to have had a negative
impact on popular recreation; through its innovative use of the
concept of space, this book provides a welcome alternative to this
traditional view.
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