Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to

This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists

It is often assumed that a recognisably modern sporting culture did not emerge until the eighteenth century. The plethora of physical training and games that ex

Have you ever wondered what people did for fun throughout history? Edward Brooke-Hitching began to wonder the same thing while flipping through an eighteenth-ce