This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

ISBN-13: 9780192870223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str.

Professor of Cultural Robert (Professor of Cultural History

Recenzje

Sparkling and scholarly, Robert Colls' new history of sport is expertly set within the wider context of English society and culture. Abounding with fresh insights, sport is celebrated and explained from Regency prize-fights to Wembley Cup Finals; vibrantly written, full of dramatic incidents and exceptional individuals.

O autorze

Robert Colls is Professor of History at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was born in South Shields, where he first played football on a disused colliery waggon-way. Much of his academic career has been based in Leicester, which is also where he played his last game of football in the local Sunday League. When it became clear that he couldn't play again, he knew that something trivial and yet hugely important had changed for him. He is married with two grown-up daughters and three wonderful grandchildren, and is the author of the acclaimed George Orwell: English Rebel, published by Oxford University Press in 2013.