Playing and praying

Reid, D. C.

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“…2 2 Sources for these debates include Reid, ‘Decline of Saint Monday’; idem, ‘Weddings’; idem, ‘Playing and praying’; Voth, ‘Time and work’; idem, Time and work ; Rybczynski, ‘Saint Monday’; Thompson, Making , pp. 337–8, 443–3; Thompson, ‘Time’; Thrift, ‘Owners’ time and own time', p. 557; Glennie and Thrift, ‘Reworking’; Harris, Private lives , pp.…”

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Attendance and work effort in the Great Northern Coalfield, 1775–1864¹

Kirby

2011

The Economic History Review

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The transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was accompanied by a decline in irregular work attendance. The chronology of that decline is unclear due to a lack of quantitative evidence. This article examines detailed colliery records from a crucial period of industrial transition and shows that traditional patterns of attendance and work effort survived in one of the leading sectors of the industrial revolution well into the second half of the nineteenth century. The study shows how regional and local sources can throw new light upon problems for which national quantitative data are unavailable.

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Kirby

2011

The Economic History Review

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“…At this time thousands of younger, working people utilized newly gained leisure time and decining rail fares to join the older ramblers of the Manchester Ramblers' Federation (MRF) in the Peak District. 9 The necessity of a short, cheap rail journey meant that few working people were excluded from moorland rambling, but also that older and younger ramblers would unavoidably come into close contact. Under the scrutiny of the MRF, the behaviour of the new 'hikers' challenged the 'freedom' of the moors.…”

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A liberal countryside? The Manchester Ramblers' Federation and the ‘social readjustment’ of urban citizens, 1929–1936

Anderson

2011

Urban History

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ABSTRACT:Ramblers often voiced reformist ideas about how cities and their inhabitants might be improved. This article demonstrates how the Manchester Ramblers' Federation utilized themes of freedom and order to define and regulate urban movements in rural space. It explores how this group of ramblers defined rambling as a ‘readjustment’ to illiberal aspects of urban life, portrayed other performances in the countryside as harmful and illegitimate and finally sought to utilize technologies drawn from their experience of urban culture to regulate conduct in the countryside.

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“…The falling attendance of the 'respectable classes' at churches, the growth of leisure alternatives to Sunday church-or chapel-going, and the growing urbanisation of Britain, all contributed to a failure to recruit, and the major forcing ground for anti-betting campaigns became seriously weaker. 14 A belief that the sportmanship of cricket expressed Christian teaching and the strength of the churches' role in recreational cricket may have sustained the role of organised Christianity in English social life. By contrast most sporting writers accepted that 'racing is certainly not [the sport] that brings most good, either bodily or spiritually to its devotees.…”

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Huggins¹

2010

Horseracing and the British 1919–39

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T he vast majority of ordinary people in Britain between the wars paid far more attention to sport, and the doings of 'society', than to the interests of the country's intellectual elite. Racing was one of Britain's leading national sports, and the media gave it more prominence than football or cricket, its main competitors. Involvement in or opposition to it were integral factors in British cultural life. Previous pages have explored its place in detail, and discussed social and economic changes in racing between the wars, power and control in racing, the relationship between racing and the media, the status of trainers and jockeys, owners and breeders, betting, bookmaking and its policing, and the experience of actually attending the races in a period supposedly characterised by economic hardships and depression, unemployment and misery. In exploring such topics, it becomes clear that a study of racing also adds a vital dimension to debates amongst historians about the extent of social harmony, the political and social predominance of conservatism, the construction of gender identities, national sentiment, and the relationship between the economy and sport. Racing was not immune from wider social and economic changes. Rail strikes affected numbers attending meetings in the early 1920s and most especially during the General Strike. Death duties cut back some of the involvement of the landed classes, although such losses were constantly replaced by new money. In the areas of high unemployment, the troubles of the local economy were mirrored by indices such as the numbers of bookmakers, betting turnover, or crowd size at meetings. National economic difficulties impacted more widely. Crowd numbers at meetings were hard hit in 1926 and 1927, and again in the early 1930s, a period when prices of thoroughbreds also dropped, and breeders suffered. The study has shed new light on gender roles during this period. Men still dominated state, society and sport. Both rugby and soccer were male-dominated. Conclusion Mike Huggins-9781526120632

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Playing and praying

Cited by 16 publications

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Attendance and work effort in the Great Northern Coalfield, 1775–1864¹

Attendance and work effort in the Great Northern Coalfield, 1775–1864¹

A liberal countryside? The Manchester Ramblers' Federation and the ‘social readjustment’ of urban citizens, 1929–1936

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Attendance and work effort in the Great Northern Coalfield, 1775–18641

Attendance and work effort in the Great Northern Coalfield, 1775–18641

A liberal countryside? The Manchester Ramblers' Federation and the ‘social readjustment’ of urban citizens, 1929–1936

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Attendance and work effort in the Great Northern Coalfield, 1775–1864¹

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