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1. The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914

   Edited by Martin Polley

   This five-volume major work is a comprehensive collection of primary sources which examine changing attitudes to sport in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sport had become an...

   Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge
2. An A-Z of Modern Europe Since 1789

   By Martin Polley

   An A-Z of Modern Europe 1789-1999 is a comprehensive dictionary which defines modern Europe through its important events and people. It includes entries on: * key people from Napoleon Bonaparte to Hitler * key political and military events * influential political, social, cultural and economic...

   Published August 16th 2000 by Routledge
3. Moving the Goalposts

   A History of Sport and Society in Britain since 1945

   By Martin Polley

   Martin Polley provides a survey of sport in Britain since 1945 and examines sport's place in British culture. He discusses issues of class, gender, race, commerce and politics, as well as analysing contemporary sport....

   Published January 7th 1998 by Routledge