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Poole, Steve and Nicholas Rodgers - Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City.
Get PDFThe Dragons of the North: Working-Class Culture, the Miners' Lockout, and the Development of Rugby League in South Wales, 1926–31
No full textThe fortunes of Pontypridd Rugby League Club, the most significant attempt to expand rugby league to Wales before the Second World War, have broadly escaped the attention of historians. This article examines the club’s history in depth, highlighting the organization of supporters’ clubs, junior and senior
(amateur) league and cup competitions, and the ties to prevailing sporting culture and the labour movement. Drawing on fresh newspaper and archival research, it argues that, far from being inevitably doomed to failure, another victim of tough economic circumstances, Pontypridd was a viable outfit with
the grassroots potential to survive much longer than it did and that it exemplified the growing diversity of sporting activity in the South Wales Valleys in the inter-war years
The secret life of us: 1984, the miners' strike and the place of biography in writing history ‘from below’
No full textThis article adds to the growing literature on 1980s Britain and the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Its purpose is to demonstrate the role of oral history and biography in the writing of more personalised narratives about national events. Throughout the oral testimony that underpins the article, speakers made conscious connections with the past whether through folk memories of earlier industrial action or by building links between their own lives and those of their parents and grandparents during the 1926 miners’ lockout. Respondents saw themselves as part of the collective story of both their own family and the community in which they lived. Their sense of biography provided a means of understanding and relating the events that had engulfed their lives for over a year and which, for that generation of people, still defines their life story today
Skating on the Border: Hockey, Class, and Commercialism in Interwar Britain
Get PDFThis article considers the development of hockey in Britain from its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century to the commercial heyday of the 1930s. At the same time the article discusses the separation of Canada from existing scholarship on the “ludic” British Empire and the perception that North American sports were peripheral to British popular culture. The article posits a reconsideration of Canada’s place in that empire drawing on borderlands theory to demonstrate not only that Britons enthusiastically adopted hockey to their own interests but also that sport formed a clear part of an emerging, common culture in the North Atlantic.Voici un article qui traite de l’évolution du hockey en Grande-Bretagne depuis son apparition au milieu du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux beaux jours de son exploitation commerciale dans les années 1930. L’auteur se penche également sur le fait que le Canada soit mis à part dans les travaux savants existants sur l’Empire britannique « ludique » et sur l’impression que les sports nord-américains n’avaient qu’une importance mineure dans la culture populaire britannique. Il pose comme postulat qu’il faut réexaminer la place du Canada dans cet empire en s’appuyant sur la théorie des régions limitrophes pour montrer que les Britanniques ont adopté le hockey et l’ont inclus dans leurs propres intérêts et, en outre, que ce sport a manifestement fait partie d’une culture commune dans l’Atlantique Nord
Miners on the Margins: Characterising South Wales and Cape Breton as an Industrial Frontier, 1880-1939
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Lions in Winter: the Summit Series, Professionalism, and the Renewal of Hockey in 1970s Britain
No full textThese words, by the historian Colin Howell, encapsulate the drama and subsequent
outpouring of victorious emotion that accompanied the challenge series of September 1972.
It was a defining “where were you when” moment for an entire generation of hockey fans –
matched, perhaps, for those in their teens and twenties, by Sidney Crosby‟s remarkable
overtime goal in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In both instances, the glory of
victory came to be seen as a restoration of Canadian dominance over the world of hockey
and a return to the natural order of things. And like most where were you when moments,
it‟s easy to imagine that ripples thundered across the globe, even in countries where
ignorance rather than jubilation reigned. In Britain, for example, most people were unaware
of what was going on in September 1972. Aside from some perfunctory records of the final
scores printed in the national daily newspapers such as the Times, the Daily Mirror and the
Guardian, the series passed by unnoticed. Ironically, the series might not have been visible to
Canadians but for British technicians, whose role in converting and relaying the notoriously
unreliable signal from the arena in Moscow to Halifax was essential in ensuring that events
were able to be beamed, by the CBC, to expectant hockey fans across Canada
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