Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. This book explores the cultural world of racing and its relationship with British society in the long eighteenth century. It examines how and why race meetings changed from a marginal and informal interest for some of the elite to become the most significant leisure event of the summer season. Going beyond sports history, the book firmly places racing in its cultural, social, political and economic context. Racing's development was linked to the growth of commercialized leisure in the eighteenth century, a product of rising wealth amongst the middling group; changes in transport; the expansion of the newspaper press; and the new democratic and individualistic spiri...
This study focuses primarily on some singular characteristics of a major tributary of mainstream rac...
2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year. This volume studies the formative p...
This article brings together three aspects of early modern urban life: the later stages of the urban...
Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. This book explores the ...
This study explores the transnational flows of ideas about racing, thoroughbred horse-breeding, and ...
Sports historians have identified the 19th century as a period of significant change in the sport of...
This paper offers a microstudy, deconstructing the meaning and significance of a famous carriage (or...
A book on Newmarket Heath and its racing might seem at first sight merely another example of the loc...
People have been racing horses for thousands of years, all over the world. Yet horseracing is often ...
When The Turf was published in 1976, Wray Vamplew could not have imagined that his contribution to t...
This PhD examines horseracing in Britain. It is based upon fifteen months fieldwork in Newmarket, S...
James C. Nicholson Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021 ISBN: 9780813180649 248 p. $26.00 (...
This thesis presents a sociological analysis of the organisation and significance of thoroughbred h...
This thesis explores stability and diversity in the approaches taken to training National Hunt raceh...
Whereas previous historians have traced the eighteenth-century origins of Russian horse-racing and d...
This study focuses primarily on some singular characteristics of a major tributary of mainstream rac...
2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year. This volume studies the formative p...
This article brings together three aspects of early modern urban life: the later stages of the urban...
Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. This book explores the ...
This study explores the transnational flows of ideas about racing, thoroughbred horse-breeding, and ...
Sports historians have identified the 19th century as a period of significant change in the sport of...
This paper offers a microstudy, deconstructing the meaning and significance of a famous carriage (or...
A book on Newmarket Heath and its racing might seem at first sight merely another example of the loc...
People have been racing horses for thousands of years, all over the world. Yet horseracing is often ...
When The Turf was published in 1976, Wray Vamplew could not have imagined that his contribution to t...
This PhD examines horseracing in Britain. It is based upon fifteen months fieldwork in Newmarket, S...
James C. Nicholson Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021 ISBN: 9780813180649 248 p. $26.00 (...
This thesis presents a sociological analysis of the organisation and significance of thoroughbred h...
This thesis explores stability and diversity in the approaches taken to training National Hunt raceh...
Whereas previous historians have traced the eighteenth-century origins of Russian horse-racing and d...
This study focuses primarily on some singular characteristics of a major tributary of mainstream rac...
2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year. This volume studies the formative p...
This article brings together three aspects of early modern urban life: the later stages of the urban...