The Origins of Working-Class Spectator Sport: Lancashire, England, 1870-1914

  • John K. Walton Ikerbasque / Universidad del País Vasco (EHU)
Keywords: Sport, spectators, consumers, industry, working class, Lancashire.

Abstract

This article examines the development of working-class commercial spectator sport in the English county of Lancashire, especially the areas where the cotton industry dominated in the south and east, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It argues that the growing popularity of professional Association football, coupled with similar developments in other sports, made this pioneer industrial area the location of a new kind of sporting culture, as part of the wider development of a working-class consumer society, and that this has global implications.

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Published
2012-11-16
How to Cite
Walton J. K. (2012). The Origins of Working-Class Spectator Sport: Lancashire, England, 1870-1914. Historia y Comunicación Social, 17, 125-140. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_HICS.2012.v17.40602
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