Auteur: Mike Huggins

Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain’s national sports. Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain’s national sports. This book explores the cultural world of raci …

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book provides a detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and so …

A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central plac …

Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the ‘respectable’ and ‘unrespectable’ was more significant t …

A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central plac …

A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central plac …

2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable …

2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable …

Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the ‘respectable’ and ‘unrespectable’ was more significant t …

Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the ‘respectable’ and ‘unrespectable’ was more significant t …

This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design hist …

This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design hist …

A detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and society and an exploration of the cultural world of racing during the inter-war years. It shows how racing’s pleasures were en …

Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word ”vice”, and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more n …

Match-Fixing and Sport studies match-fixing in historical perspective, revealing how match-fixing has always been a major sporting continuity, alongside another longstanding continuity, a widely-held …

Match-Fixing and Sport studies match-fixing in historical perspective, revealing how match-fixing has always been a major sporting continuity, alongside another longstanding continuity, a widely-held …

A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920. Over this period, sport become increasingly global, some sports were radically altered, sports clubs proliferated, a …

A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920. Over this period, sport become increasingly global, some sports were radically altered, sports clubs proliferated, a …