History of Sport - Popular Recreation
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Popular Recreation
Characteristics:
- Occasional - free time for recreation on holy days, linked to festivals
- Rural - before industrial revolution, Britain was agricultural
- Violent - reflecting harshness of 18th century, aggession, often linked with alcohol
- Limited rules - illiteracy, no NGBs
- Local coding - few rules in one community
- Wagering - chance to go from rage to riches through betting
- Popular - two class society
- Local - limited transport and communications
Types of Activity:
- Field sports - fishing, fox hunting
- Blood sports - **** fighting, bear baiting
- Games - cat & dog, mob football
- Combat sports - archery, jousting
- Water pastimes, recreational bathing, public baths
Pre-Industrial Britain:
- Feudal - gentry own land, peasants worked
- Rural - majority lived in countryside communities
- Literacy - gentry were literate whereas peasants weren't
- Work - gentry had lots of leisure time, peasants had long working hours
- Communications - gentry had access to other villages, peasants were restricted to their own village
- Church - strong influence on daily life
Popular Aquatics Activities:
- Fishing
- Rowing
- Church
- Public house
Recreation in River:
- Washing/bathing place
- Competitions could start to develop
- Commercial boating (transport)
- Fishing - occupation, supplements diet
Pedestrianism:
- Footmen necessary to ensure comfort of travelling gentry
- Bets placed by gentry
- Athletic footmen hired for speed and stamina
- Semi-formal competitions with prizes for winner
Boat Races:
- Rowing small boats vital to river towns
- Bets placed by gentry
- Boats and watermen sponsored by gentry
- Early professional sculling
Public Schools
Characteristics:
- Long standing
- Endowed - recieved large gifts of moeny
- Boarding schools
- Tough
- Elitest
- Regular - free time due to lack of supervision
- Free time - boys could do what they wanted
- Young boys - excessive energy, lots of rough behaviour
- Numbers - increased numbers in schools
- Space - more room for buildings and fields
- Gentry - influential families
- Fee paying - fees could develop facilities
Clarendon Schools:
- Charterhouse school - 1611
- Eton College - 1440
- Rugby school - 1567
- Clarendon report - the account of public school life written by the Earl of Clarendon and…
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