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Item Metadata only The amateur body and the middle-class man: work, health and style in Victorian Britain(2006-12-01) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only The appeal of spectator sport(Routledge, 2008) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only Bradman and the British(Hardie Grant Books, 2008) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only English influences on French sport: "anglomania" and national revival, 1870-1914(2001) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only European heroes : myth, identity, sport.(Frank Cass, 1996) Lanfranchi, P.; Holt, Richard; Mangan, James AnthonyItem Metadata only The globalisation of sport(2003-07) Holt, Richard; Cronin, M.Item Metadata only Great Britain: the amateur tradition(Urbana-Champaign: Illinois UP, 2003) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only Historians and the History of Sport(Elsevier, 2014) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only The imperial game in crisis: English cricket and decolonisation(Manchester University Press, 2002) Holt, Richard; Cronin, M.Item Metadata only Introduction: sport in Europe 1950-2010: transformation and trends.(Routledge, 2011) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only Introduction: sport, legacy and leadership.(Routledge, 2015) Holt, Richard; Ruta, DinoItem Metadata only Le corps sportif au dix-neuvieme siecle(Editions du Seuil, 2005) Holt, RichardItem Open Access Learning disability, sport and legacy.(De Montfort University, 2011-06) Barton, Susan; Carter, Neil; Holt, Richard; Williams, JohnThis report examines the holding of the Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) National Summer Games – for people with learning disabilities – in Leicester in July 2009. For the first time, the views of the organisers, the athletes, their families and carers and the volunteer ‘army’ who assisted in staging the Games have been systematically collected and analysed. 02. In addition, three on-street surveys covering 919 members of the Leicester public were carried out at broadly six-monthly intervals before, during and after the 2009 Games. Each sample was balanced for age, gender and ethnicity in line with the city’s demographics. The aim here was to assess possible changes in public awareness of learning disability and the local impact of the Games. 03. Taken as a whole, this project offers new quantitative and qualitative data and insights into the role of Special Olympics (SO) in terms of: i. the value of sport for the learning disabled and their families and carers ii. the complex financial and organisational problems posed to host cities iii. public and media awareness of learning disability generated by the Games iv. the critical role of volunteers and the volunteer programme v. the very real challenges of sustaining a viable Games legacyItem Open Access Learning disability, sport and legacy. Executive Summary.(De Montfort University, 2011-06) Barton, Susan; Carter, Neil; Holt, Richard; Williams, JohnThis report examines the holding of the Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) National Summer Games – for people with learning disabilities – in Leicester in July 2009. For the first time, the views of the organisers, the athletes, their families and carers and the volunteer ‘army’ who assisted in staging the Games have been systematically collected and analysed. 02. In addition, three on-street surveys covering 919 members of the Leicester public were carried out at broadly six-monthly intervals before, during and after the 2009 Games. Each sample was balanced for age, gender and ethnicity in line with the city’s demographics. The aim here was to assess possible changes in public awareness of learning disability and the local impact of the Games. 03. Taken as a whole, this project offers new quantitative and qualitative data and insights into the role of Special Olympics (SO) in terms of: i. the value of sport for the learning disabled and their families and carers ii. the complex financial and organisational problems posed to host cities iii. public and media awareness of learning disability generated by the Games iv. the critical role of volunteers and the volunteer programme v. the very real challenges of sustaining a viable Games legacyItem Metadata only The life of Godfrey Brown and the legend of Jackie Milburn(University of Aarhus, 2004) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only Playing the game : a review of new research on British sport in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries(Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2001) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only The Professional Golfers Association 1901-2001(Grant Books, 2002) Holt, Richard; Lewis, P.; Vamplew, WrayItem Metadata only Routledge handbook of sport and legacy: meeting the challenge of major sports events.(Routledge, 2015) Holt, Richard; Ruta, Dino; Panter, JamesItem Metadata only Sport and recreation in Britain, 1939-2000(Blackwell, 2005) Holt, RichardItem Metadata only Sport and the British - 21 years on: Response to comments.(Taylor and Francis, 2011) Holt, Richard