Books written by Mike Huggins

  • Sport and the English, 1918-1939
    Sport and the English, 1918-1939

    99 In 1930 Rowe Harding , a Cambridge rugby Blue and Welsh international , described professional soccer as ' sordid grasping after easy money'.40 In 1918 Pelham Warner thought that play in league cricket was ' keen enough ' but lacked ...

  • The Victorians and Sport
    The Victorians and Sport

    Maguire , Joe , ' Images of Manliness and Competing Ways of Living in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain ' , British Journal of Sports History , 3 ( 1986 ) , PP . 265-87 . Majumdar , Boria , ' The Vernacular in Sports History ' ...

  • Horseracing and the British, 1919–39
    Horseracing and the British, 1919–39

    ... the Dublin match manufacturer Alex Maguire, the Belfast corn trader Mr Barnett and the Shanghai bill broker Mr Morriss.56 The pages of memorial biographies in the Bloodstock Breeders' Review provide details about their occupations, ...

  • Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History
    Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History

    ... Ashley, Paul, 80 Ashley, Lord, 121 Atkins, ED, 220 At the Works, 109 Ayr, 31, 40, 44 Badminton Library: Racing, 180 Bailey, P., 4—5, 69, 238—9 Baily 's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, 7, 48, 58, 133, 153, 190 Baird, (Sir) David, ...

  • Sport and the English, 1918-1939: Between the Wars
    Sport and the English, 1918-1939: Between the Wars

    In Nelson,where hewas the LancashireLeague club'sprofessional from 1929 to1937, itwas said that Constantine generated excitement like 'a manwalkinga tightrope withouta safety net' (Giuseppe 1974:43). Hisspectator appeal wasalsorelated ...

  • The Teesside Seaside Between the Wars: Redcar and Its Neighbours, 1919-1939

    The Teesside Seaside Between the Wars: Redcar and Its Neighbours, 1919-1939

  • Sport and the English, 1918-1939: Between the Wars
    Sport and the English, 1918-1939: Between the Wars

    When Selfridges opened its Orchard Street extension in 1922, it advertised its new menswear department with a display aimed specially at Ascot (Laird 1976: 192–94). The theatricality of major sporting events made them more of an ...

  • The Visual in Sport
    The Visual in Sport

    This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields ...

  • Vice and the Victorians
    Vice and the Victorians

    Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent.

  • Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
    Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play

    Geoffrey Best , Mid - Victorian Britain , 1851–70 ( London : Collins , 1979 ) , p . 282 . 2. See , for example , Mike J Huggins , ' More Sinful Pleasures : Leisure , Respectability and the Male Middle Classes in Victorian England ' ...

  • Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
    Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play

    The Penny Dreadful, or Strange, Horrid and Sensational Tales (London: Gollancz, 1975), pp. 357-71; Elizabeth James and Helen R. Smith, Penny Dreadfuls and Boys 'Adventures: The Barry Ono Collection of Victorian Popular Literature in The ...

  • Horseracing and the British, 1919-39
    Horseracing and the British, 1919-39

    From the prize-winning author of Flat Racing and British Society 1780-1914, this is the first book to provide a detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and society and to explore the cultural world of racing ...

  • Match Fixing and Sport: Historical Perspectives
    Match Fixing and Sport: Historical Perspectives

    ... International Sports Law Review 2 ( 2012 ) , 14 ; the biggest scandal penalized in Czech football involved eight club ... The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics ( Basingtoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2018 ) , 223-244 ...

  • Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History
    Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History

    ... all night . Monday - by Ratcliffe Bridge , to the Nag's Head , Bolton . until three o'clock , thence to Robt . Lee , the Crown Inn , Horwich , all night . Tuesday - to the Royal Oak , Chorley until twelve o'clock , to Mr. Howard's , Unicorn ...

  • Horseracing and the British, 1919-39
    Horseracing and the British, 1919-39

    ... memories : being sixty years ' turf reminiscences and experi- ences ( London : Heath Granton , 1946 ) , p . 88 . 27 Suffolk Oral History Project 1985-8 , OHT 355 , Snowy Shepherd . 28 Sir Alfred Mannings , The second burst ( London ...

  • Sport and the English, 1918-1939
    Sport and the English, 1918-1939

    A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation.

  • Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century
    Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. This book explores the cultural world of racing and its relationship with British society in the long eighteenth century.

  • A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry
    A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry

    The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social, cultural, political, and economic context ...

  • Vice and the Victorians
    Vice and the Victorians

    Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent.