Encyclopedia Of Traditional British Rural Sports

Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2005 - Sports & Recreation - 301 pages

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 the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with particular emphasis on the social history and 'traditional' aspects. It contains several hundred entries focusing on individual sports and others providing analysis of key concepts, themes and terminologies.

The Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports is an invaluable reference that provides students, scholars and sports enthusiasts with a focussed and authoritative source of information on the history and culture of rural sport in Britain.

About the author

John Martin is the British Aerospace Lecturer in HRM at the University of Hull.

Wray Vamplew is Professor and Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montford University, Leicester, England.
Daryl Adair is a Research Fellow in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Encyclopedia Of Traditional British Rural Sports; Routledge Sports Reference Series; Sports reference series
• Editors: Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew
• Contributors: Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2005
• ISBN: 041535224X, 9780415352246
• Length: 301 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / History; Sports & Recreation / Reference