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Sport and the Victorian City: The development of commercialised spectator sport, Bradford 1836-1908
(De Montfort University, 2015)
This study is a history of popular spectator sport in the city of Bradford between the years 1836 and 1908. Its major aim is to chart and analyse the experience of Bradford in relation to the national development of sport ...
The Growth of an Urban Sporting Culture – Middlesbrough, c.1870-1914
(De Montfort University, 2012)
This thesis is a study of the urban sporting culture of Middlesbrough between c.1870 and 1914, a period that witnessed an enormous expansion in participant and spectator sports. It examines the impact of industrialisation ...
A Historical and Sociological study of an African-Caribbean football club in the East Midlands c.1970-2010
(De Montfort University, 2012)
This is a historical and sociological case study of an East Midlands-based, African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers c.1970 – 2010. Essentially, it is in response to a relative lack of research on the ...
Sport and Canadian Anti-Apartheid Policy: a political and diplomatic history c.1968 - c.1980
(De Montfort University, 2012)
In the 1970s the Canadian government took a strong stand against apartheid sport policies. Despite Canada’s limited sporting links with South Africa, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his Liberal government took ...
Jews and British Sport: integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, c1880-c1960
(De Montfort University, 2011-03)
Between the 1890s and the 1960s, sport had a distinctive and varied impact on the social, cultural, political and economic life of the British Jewish community. During this period, Anglo-Jewry developed a clear sporting ...
