This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960 /
Robert Colls.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford scholarship online. .
This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'This Sporting Life' offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.