1st Edition

British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000 Volume 1: Nationwide Histories

Edited By Richard Cox Copyright 2003

    Volume one 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.

    Part 1 General surveys of sport in Britain: general historical surveys of sport in Great Britain; histories of sport in Britain during different epochs - ancient Britain, Anglo-Saxon and mediaeval Britain, 16th century and later, 17th century and later, 18th century and later, 19th century and later, 20th century. Part 2 Histories of individual sports in Britain: aerobatics; angling; archery; association football; athletics; badminton; ballooning; baseball; basketball; bear baiting; billiards; bowling; boxing; canoeing; caving; cock-fighting; coursing; cricket; croquet; cross country; curling; cycling; darts; deer stalking; dog racing; driving; eventing; falconry; fencing; field hockey; field sports; fives; fox-hunting; Gaelic football; game shooting; gliding; gold; greyhound racing; grid-iron football; gymnastics; handball; hill racing; homing; horse-racing; hurling; ice hockey; ice-skating; judo; knurr and spell; lacrosse; land yachting; lawn tennis; martial arts; model yachting; motor-car racing; motor-cycle racing; mountaineering; orienteering; parachuting; pigeon shooting; polo; power boat racing; punting; rackets; rallying; real tennis; rock climbing; roller skating; rowing; rugby league; rugby union; sailing; shinty; shooting; show jumping; skiing; snooker; speedway; squash; stoolball; stroke base; swimming and diving; table tennis; water polo; weightlifting; wrestling; yachting. Part 3 Histories of sport in countries other than England: Isle of Man; Channel Islands; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Wales.

    Biography

    Richard William Cox