British Sporting Champions

British Sporting Champions
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Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781398464971
ISBN-13 : 139846497X
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis British Sporting Champions by : Colin Edwards

You do not leave school one day and win an Olympic gold medal the next. This book is about 50 sporting champions and how they got started. It contains a biography of each followed by their career records. It shows in detail their achievements from school, youth, under 20, under 30, to seminar level, from county, area, national and international honours. It is a multi-sport book that should appeal to multi-sport lovers.

British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000

British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781135287771
ISBN-13 : 1135287775
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000 by : Richard Cox

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 all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals

British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 0714652520
ISBN-13 : 9780714652528
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals by : Richard William Cox

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 all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

British Sport

British Sport
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 0714652504
ISBN-13 : 9780714652504
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis British Sport by : Richard William Cox

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 all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions

Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions
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Publisher : Hachette Digital, Inc.
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781904994978
ISBN-13 : 1904994970
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions by : Guinness World Records

In celebration of this year's sporting summer, Guinness World Records presents Wacky Sporting Champions an eBook exclusive honoring those unique sporting stars who have taken record-breaking to new and outrageous extremes! Featuring record-breakers from all over the world, Wacky Sporting Champions presents the truly alternative side to sporting achievement. Do you want to know how far you can throw a washing machine? Or if the pole-vault record can be attempted on a unicycle? Or what the fastest egg-and-spoon race is? Then Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions is the eBook for you! Word Count: 27,000

British Sport: Local histories

British Sport: Local histories
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0714652512
ISBN-13 : 9780714652511
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis British Sport: Local histories by : Richard William Cox

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 all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: British sport and the wider world

The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: British sport and the wider world
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 400
Release :
ISBN-10 : 041531870X
ISBN-13 : 9780415318709
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: British sport and the wider world by : Martin Polley

This five volume set is a comprehensive collection of primary sources on sports in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sports had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Specialist Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including "Blackwood's Magazine,"" Nineteenth Century," "Fortnightly Review" and "Contemporary Review," all of which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sports. The five volumes cover the varieties of sports being promoted, sports and education, commercial and financial aspects, sports and animals and the globalization of sports through empire.

Britain’s Olympic Women

Britain’s Olympic Women
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 531
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ISBN-10 : 9781000163209
ISBN-13 : 1000163202
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Britain’s Olympic Women by : Jean Williams

Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However, most Olympic histories have focused on men’s sport. This is the first book to tell the story of Britain’s Olympic women, how they changed Olympic spectacle and how, in turn, they have reinterpreted the Games. Exploring the key themes of gender and nationalism, and presenting a wealth of new empirical, archival evidence, the book explores the sporting culture produced by British women who aspired to become Olympians, from the early years of the modern Olympic movement. It shines new light on the frameworks imposed on female athletes, individually and as a group, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the various affiliated sporting international federations. Using oral history and family history sources, the book tells of the social processes through which British Olympic women have become both heroes and anti-heroes in the public consciousness. Exploring the hidden narratives around women such as Charlotte Cooper, Lottie Dod, Audrey Brown and Pat Smythe, and bringing the story into the modern era of London 2012, Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the book helps us to better understand the complicated relationship between sport, gender, media and wider society. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, Olympic history, women’s history, British history or gender studies.

The Association Game

The Association Game
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 529
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ISBN-10 : 9781317870081
ISBN-13 : 1317870085
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Association Game by : Matthew Taylor

The story of British football's journey from public school diversion to mass media entertainment is a remarkable one. The Association Game traces British football from the establishment of the earliest clubs in the nineteenth century to its place as one of the prominent and commercialised leisure industries at the beginning of the twenty first century. It covers supporters and fandom, status and culture, big business, the press and electronic media and development in playing styles, tactics and rules. This is the only up to date book on the history of British football, covering the twentieth century shift from amateur to professional and whole of the British Isles, not just England.

BBC Sport in Black and White

BBC Sport in Black and White
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9781137455017
ISBN-13 : 1137455012
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis BBC Sport in Black and White by : Richard Haynes

This book provides the first detailed account of the formative decades of BBC televised sport when it launched its flagship programmes Sportsview, Grandstand and Match of the Day. Based on extensive archival research in the BBC’s written archives and interviews with leading producers, editors and commentators of the period, it provides a ‘behind-the-scenes’ narrative history of this major institution of British cultural life. In 2016 the BBC celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its television coverage of England’s World Cup victory. Their coverage produced one of the most oft-played moments in the history of television, Kenneth Wolstenholme’s famous line: ‘Some people are on the pitch, they think it’s all over ... it is now!’ as Geoff Hurst scored England’s fourth goal, securing England’s 4-2 victory. It was a landmark in English football as well as a watershed in the BBC’s highly professionalised approach to televised sport. How the BBC reached this peak of television expertise, and who was behind their success in developing the techniques of televised sport, is the focus of this book.