Sport Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain

In Sport Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain Jeffrey Hill examines the social history of recreation including: the development of spectator sports; the attractions of the cinema; tourism; the role of the media; the significance of clubs and societies. Commercial voluntary and state sectors of sport and leisure provision are all included and relationships of social class gender and ethnicity in sport and leisure are given prominence in an analysis which spans the whole century.