David Horspool

More than a Game
In conversation with Charlie Taylor

Starts at: Thursday 24 October 7:45 PM
Finishes at: Thursday 24 October 8:45 PM

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We may think we know that the Battle of Trafalgar was won on the playing fields of Eton… but do we appreciate quite what a pivotal role ALL sport has had on our history?

This fascinating book is packed with remarkable stories explaining Britain’s love affair with sport and showing how the most dramatic shifts in society have played out in sporting arenas: cricket and class mobility, rugby and regional rivalry, tennis and gender equality, golf and battles for land, boxing and race-relations. Football and, well, almost everything! The sporting theatre has even accelerated radical change via heroes including independence fighters, suffragettes and Jewish bare-knuckle boxers crashing the established order.

Right from when jousting took place between kingdoms through to the rise of the Commonwealth Games at the end of the imperial era, sport has defined Britain's past. And continues to do so.

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