British Sport: Local histories
- ISBN-10
- 0714652512
- ISBN-13
- 9780714652511
- Category
- Reference
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Richard William Cox
Description
Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
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