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Sport of all kinds burgeoned in the period 1837-1914: professional sports for mass audiences were first codified and nationally organised; games for home and garden were invented and marketed; field sports occupied the aristocracy and country folk. This book shows how the Victorians and Edwardians became a nation of sportsmen - and women.Tames, Richard is the author of 'Victorian and Edwardian Sportsman', published 2007 under ISBN 9780747806660 and ISBN 0747806667.
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