Rugby League in twentieth century Britain : a social and cultural history /

• Collins, Tony, 1961-

• Rugby League football -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.

• Routledge,

• 0415396158 (pbk.)
• 041539614X (hbk.) :

• 80.00

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 228-238.
• Preface Introduction 1. Rugby League and the First World War 2. League on the Dole? The game in the depression years 3. Masters and Servants: The Professional Player 1919-39 4. Wembley and the Road from Wigan Peir 5. Rugby League in the 'Peoples' War' 6. From Boom to Bust 1945-75 7. 'Chess with Muscles': The Rules of the Game 8. The Kangaroo Connection: Anglo-Australian Rugby League 9. 'Sporting Apartheid': Rugby Union's War against Rugby League 10. The Working-Man's Game: Class, Gender and Race 11. The Other Amateurs: Beyond the Heartlands 12. From Slump to Super League 1975-1995 13. A Proletariat at Play Appendices Bibliography.

• Tries in the valleys a history of Rugby League in Wales
• rugby rebellion the divide of league and union in Australasia
• glory of their times crossing the colour line in rugby league
• Rugbys class war bans boot money and parliamentary battles
• Up and over a trek through rugby league land
• Super league the first ten years
• At the George and other essays on Rugby League
• Rugbys great split class culture and the origins of rugby league football
• beautiful game searching for the soul of football
• Seasons in the sun a rugby revolution
• Rugbys Berlin wall league and union from 1895 to today
• Sport histories figurational studies of the development of modern sports
• Making the rugby world race gender commerce
• History and class essential readings in theory and interpretation
• News and the Net
• Sport politics and the working class organised labour and sport in inter war Britain
• football business the modern football classic
• civilisation of the crowd popular culture in England 1750 1900
• origins of the First World War
• Making sense of sports
• Moving the goalposts a history of sport and society since 1945
• Agincourt war a military history of the latter part of the Hundred Years War from 1369 to 1453
• Edwardian England 1901 1914
• Rugbys great split class culture and the origins of Rugby League football
• court of Richard II
• Power politics and the Olympic Games
• oral history reader
• In the fascist bathroom punk in pop music 1977 1992
• Sports culture an A Z guide
• Sport and society history power and culture
• Chartists popular politics in the Industrial Revolution
• Sport and the British a modern history
• Threshold of war Franklin D Roosevelt and American entry into World War II
• Information age journalism journalism in an international context
• age of Richard II
• Consuming sport fans sport and culture
• Hitlers social revolution class and status in Nazi Gemany 1933 1939
• Staying power the history of black people in Britain
• Henry V the practice of kingship
• Henry VI
• end of the House of Lancaster
• era of Franklin D Roosevelt 1933 1945 a brief history with documents
• New Deal
• Medieval Papacy
• Media audiences
• Thatcher effect
• Sixties Britain culture society and politics
• Patronage pedigree and power in later medieval England
• Newszak and news media
• Democracy in a depression Britain in the 1920s and 1930s
• Norman Empire
• business of sport management
• Roman Britain and early England 55 B C A D 871
• McNaes essential law for journalists
• break up of British India
• Stalin and Stalinism
• rise of the Nazis
• Thatcherism a tale of two nations
• Third Republic in France 1870 1940 conflicts and continuities
• Hundred Years War England and France at war c 1300 c 1450
• sociology of religion translated by Ephraim Fischoff introduction by Talcott Parsons
• Understanding sport an introduction to the sociological and cultural analysis of sport
• Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932 1940
• Writing at university a guide for students
• French fascism the second wave 1933 1939
• Western church in the Middle Ages
• Democracy
• fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
• Richard II
• Bismarck
• Young peoples involvement in sport
• Media ownership the economics and politics of convergence and concentration in the UK and European media
• peoples war Britain 1939 45
• England in the later Middle Ages a political history
• Germany in the age of Bismarck
• Audiences a sociological theory of performance and imagination
• John Stuart Mill
• Handbook of medieval sexuality
• rise of the Labour Party 1893 1931
• Thatcherism and British politics the end of consensus
• Richard II
• Modern Britain since 1979 a reader
• Modern India the origins of an Asian democracy
• Weimar and the rise of Hitler
• English court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War
• Understanding media theory
• New Deal the depression years 1933 40
• Contemporary human resource management text and cases
• mid Tudor crisis 1545 1565
• politics of immigration immigration race and race relations in post war Britain
• history of the modern British Isles 1914 1999 circumstances events and outcomes
• Chronicles of the revolution 1397 1400 the reign of Richard II
• Imagined communities reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
• Wars of the Roses politics and the constitution in England c 1437 1509
• sociology of journalism
• Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme myth reality
• Nazism 1919 1945 The rise to power 1919 1934 a documentary reader
• Huddersfield a most handsome town aspects of the history and culture of a West Yorkshire town
• Black death
• making of modern British politics 1867 1939