Boxing, football, horse-racing, cricket: each grew from different social roots and so enable the dextrous Horspool to construct the framework for his ideas. He’s an historian, an editor at the TLS and also the author of a couple of titles in the Penguin Monarchs series – including one on Cromwell, whose inclusion was viewed dyspeptically in some quarters. A very British storm.
More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978152936327209/11/2023
Categories: 02. Books For Christmas 2023: History, Books For Christmas 2023, History, Sport
Tag: British History
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